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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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"Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions," wrote D. H. Lawrence in Women in Love, his masterpiece heralding the erotic consciousness of the twentieth century. Lawrence explores love, sex, passion, and marriage through the eyes of two sisters, Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen. Intelligent, incisive, and observant, the two very different sisters pursue
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
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1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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FDR and Tuck are covert CIA operatives and best buddies, until they both fall for charming and sexy Lauren. Their friendship is put to the ultimate test as they wage an epic battle for her affection, using their surveillance skills and an array of high-tech gadgetry. May the best spy win!
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On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
6) Firefly
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2013]
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165 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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The recently knighted Sir Noel Coward is living in his tiny hilltop retreat in Jamaica, the eponymous Firefly, above his much larger, bustling home below. He divides his time between there and Switzerland, avoiding England for tax reasons. The great man is in poor health, suffering dizzy spells and leading a sedentary life. Down the hill, his unobtrusive partner, Graham Payn, takes care of business. What's different about this week? Noel's peerless...
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
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xv, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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English
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"There's a certain kind of lost a boy feels in this world without a father. Tim felt it. I felt it. And we realized our only way out would be together. In an openhearted memoir of faith on the fringe, Roger Thompson meditates on the life and premature death of his best friend and business partner, Tim Garrety, cofounder of Skate Street Ventura. Roger and Tim's twenty-year friendship was forged in the surf and on the streets of 1980s California. Together...
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RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
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10 DVDs (32 hr., 21 min.) : sound, black and white or color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Contains 10 discs of feature films and short films released between 1929 and 1942. Contains high definition, digitally restored black-and-white versions of films. All films in black and white except The tree in a test tube.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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25 Blu-rays (94 hr., 35 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : chiefly color photographs ; 14 x 18 cm)
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English
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A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory. The friends solve everyday problems posed by academia, family and video games. What they prove is that friendship is the element that matters most in the universe.
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