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(0)Robert Strauss
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightening-and highly entertaining!-account of poor James Buchanan's presidency to prove once and for all that, well, few leaders could have done worse.
But author Robert Strauss does much more, leading readers out of Buchanan's terrible term in office-meddling in the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, exacerbating the Panic of 1857, helping foment the John...
5) Stalag 17
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English
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Description
Two worthy **Academy Award** nominees from 1950's *Sunset Boulevard* - actor William Holden and director Billy Wilder - re-teamed three years later for the gripping World War II drama, STALAG 17. The result was another Best Director nomination for Wilder (his fourth), and the elusive Best Actor Oscar for Holden. Holden portrays the jaded, scheming Sergeant J.J. Sefton, a prisoner at the notorious German prison camp, who spends his days dreaming up...
8) Stalag 17
Language
English
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In a German prison-of-war camp in World War II packed with none but American sergeants, Sgt. J.J. Sefton is the ultimate conniver, hustler and privilege-seeker. It becomes apparent to his fellow prisoners that there must be a spy for the Germans in their midst and the most obvious candidate would be Sefton--but is he? And if he is not, then who is?
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Kate Maxwell is a saloon proprietress caught between her feelings for suave cattle promoter Jim and the town's sheriff. There's plenty more about Jim that Kate doesn't know, and by the time she finds out the truth, both she and the town are in grave danger. Now Kate and the sheriff have to battle overwhelming odds to set things right.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Kate Maxwell is a saloon proprietress caught between her feelings for suave cattle promoter Jim and the town's sheriff. There's plenty more about Jim that Kate doesn't know, and by the time she finds out the truth, both she and the town are in grave danger. Now Kate and the sheriff have to battle overwhelming odds to set things right.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"If you go out and simply look up, everything--from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way--appears to be pasted on the two-dimensional surface of the dome of the sky. Yet, the story of astronomy as a science is how, over time, astronomers have discovered the cosmos in depth. It is the story of the measurement of position and distance, and how our 2D view of the sky above us evolved into a more sophisticated comprehension...
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In Proud Valley an African American sailor comes to a Welsh coal mining town in 1938 and helps re-open the mine at the cost of his life. Native Land, a political semi-documentary formed from staged reenactments, leads viewers on an emotional tour of the pre-World War II U.S. and its freedom-based ideologies and looks at the the forces it sees as threatening to undermine America's strengths from within: greedy capitalists, professional strikebreakers,...
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