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1) The bad seed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling inspiration for the chilling movie starring Patty McCormack and Nancy Kelly. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This spine-tingling tale investigates a mother's concerned suspicion surrounding several mysterious accidental deaths that all connect back to her eight-year-old daughter, Rhoda. Tremendously impacting the thriller genre, this masterpiece of suspense generated a whole crop of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 75 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Formulated as guidelines for monks in the sixth century A.D., Benedict's injunctions to obedience, humility, and contemplation also provide an invaluable model for anyone who wishes to live more simply, more humbly, and in greater accord with the impulses of the heart and spirit.
6) Elmer Gantry
Language
English
Formats
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A detective gives a ride to a half-naked girl, who is abruptly killed by thugs. Almost killed himself, the detective tries to solve the murder. Along the way, he is told to back off by the Feds, a bomb is placed in his car, a friend is killed, and he himself is beaten, drugged, and held hostage.
9) The misfits
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following her divorce, a lonely young woman befriends a couple of down-on-their-luck cowboys. Both men desire her, but she longs for only one, who represents for her the freedom she's never had. Teaming up with a weather-beaten rodeo rider, the foursome goes into the mountains on a quest for rare and elusive wild horses. There they come to realize that, for all their differences, they share fundamentally similar needs and desires.
10) Moby Dick
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life-- revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Vintage Books edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 250 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling, National Book Award-finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton's expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap's Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa,...
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