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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think longingly of the six weeks of vacation the French enjoy, imagining them at the seaside in stripes with plates of fruits de mer. John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling...
Author
Series
This fabulous century volume 2
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Description
A look at America's culture, motion-pictures, Broadway, World War I, and the end of innocence during 1910-1920.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
67) Oliver Twist
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Born into a miserable workhouse orphanage, Oliver eventually flees to London, where the cheerful Artful Dodger immediately befriends him and introduces him to the villainous Fagin and his gang of thieves. Temporarily rescued from the prospect of a life of crime by the kindly Mr. Brownlow, Oliver finds himself pursued by savage thief Bill Sikes and the enigmatic Monks.
Author
Series
Costume in context volume 9
Publisher
B.T. Batsford
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Presents the major fashion developments of the period, and compares the clothing and lifestyles of people from different backgrounds.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 17 of a ser
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Longing to leave the English heath, Eustacia Vye becomes embroiled in a love triangle and unfortunate marriage that lead to tragedy.
73) Romper stomper
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hando (Crowe) leads a gang of skinheads that terrorize Asian immigrants in their Melbourne neighborhood. He soon meets Gabe (McKenzie), a teenage girl from a broken home. Looking for adventure, she falls in love with Hando and leaps into the careless and dangerous lifestyle of this band of racist punks. But when Gabe swaps partners for Hando's right-hand man, Davey (Pollock), she pits the two against each other leading to a shocking conclusion.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
75) Annie
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson--a sensible schoolmarm and lonely spinster--is just trying to get through life. But one day, she reaches her breaking point, abandoning her job and her tidy, circumscribed life, to set out on an expedition to the other side of the world in search of an insect that may or may not exist: the golden beetle of New Caledonia, Margery's childhood obsession ever since her father gave...
78) Scarface
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of organized crime's control of the city of Chicago during prohibition and the ruthless drive of Tony Carmonte (Muni) to become the city's top gangster.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1982]
Language
English
Description
A photographic tribute to the American cowboy captures the hardships and loneliness of this vanishing way of life and reveals the spectacular natural beauty of the WestThe magnificent photographs of cowboys and the West, sensitive, lonely, beautiful and real, rare superbly matched with short anecdotal material that makes wonderful reading.
80) A wicked conceit
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"March 1832. Edinburgh, Scotland. Kiera and Gage have been eagerly awaiting their bundle of joy but trouble has been brewing in the form of roguish criminal Bonnie Brock Kincaid. A new book and subsequent play features some of Kincaid's daring exploits as well as thinly veiled representations of Kiera and Gage. Rumors are swirling that Bonnie Brock, not Gage, is the father of Kiera's unborn child. Once again Kiera finds herself fighting off scandalous...
