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Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's the start of a Big romance for sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) as she and her best friends - lovable cynic Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), incurable romantic Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and insatiable sex goddess Samantha (Kim Cattrall) - navigate the rocky waters of the Manhattan singles scene.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will...
1244) Homeplace
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and the DJ who first gave airtime to a brassy-voiced singer known as Patsy Cline, setting her on a course for fame that outlasted her tragically short life. What Lingan found was a town in the midst of an identity crisis. As the U.S. economy and American culture have transformed in recent decades, the ground...
Author
Series
Berlin volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the third and final act of Jason Lutes's Berlin, he ... demonstrates how the rise of fascism changes the city, radically transforming the intertwining lives of a small group of Berliners. --
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Lila and Lena, two bright young girls who have grown up in the tough, rough streets of post-war Naples. Striving to make a better life for themselves, they work hard at school but Lila is stopped in her tracks when forced to give up her education and work for the family shoe-making business. It's not long before their worlds are pushed apart, and Lila ends up marrying a local businessman and son of the murdered local loan shark,...
1247) Iranian love stories
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, that explore the lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds"--
1248) The new deal
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Waldorf Astoria is the classiest hotel along the Manhattan skyline in 1930s New York City. When a charming woman checks in with a high-society entourage, a bellhop and a maid get caught up in a series of mysterious thefts. The stakes quickly grow perilous, and the pair must rely on each other to discover the truth while navigating delicate class politics" --
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
From the Gilded Age until 1914, more than 100 American heiresses invaded Britannia and swapped dollars for titles; just like Cora Crawley, the first Downton Abbey character Julian Fellowes was inspired to create after reading the book. Filled with vivid personalities, gossipy anecdotes, grand houses, and a wealth of period details, plus photographs, illustrations, quotes, and the finer points of Victorian and Edwardian etiquette, it is social history...
1250) The butler
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
1251) Tonie character: Olaf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Join Olaf, Anna, and Elsa on a merry mission for warm hugs and holiday cheer. Disney's Olaf is here! Have fun with Olaf in two delightful tales! In "Olaf's Frozen Adventure," Olaf and Sven set out to bring home the kingdom's holiday traditions. In "Frozen Fever," it's Anna's birthday and Elsa and Kristoff are determined to give her the best celebration ever, but Elsa's icy powers may put more than just the party at risk. Teaches kids about strengthening...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
In 1845 Thoreau built himself a shanty in the woods by Walden Pond, where he lived from 1845-1847. Walden is a treatise on the subjects of self-sufficiency, individualism, relationship with nature, and rejection of material ambition. His residence at the pond was interrupted by a day's imprisonment for refusal to pay a poll tax to a government that supported the Mexican War. This action was in accord with his belief in passive resistance, a means...
1254) Essential Fellini
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Special edition collector's set.
Language
Italiano
Description
Variety lights: A beautiful and ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.
The white sheik: During a day in their honeymoon, a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
I vitelloni: Details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to...
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