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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Journey to parallel Earths with the iconic sci-fi adventure series that thrilled fans for five gripping seasons. The Sliders are an unlikely group of travelers who encounter alternate versions of everything and everyone they once knew and loved as they attempt to make the one slide that will take them home. Packed with all 87 incredible episodes -- presented in story continuity order -- this complete series collection is the ultimate trip beyond the...
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Many places can feel like nowhere: a desert, an isolated village, even the middle of a bustling, impersonal city. And then something happens: an adventure, a revelation, an experience that changes the whole landscape. The discovery that every place is the centre of the world to somebody and has its own riches and wonders. The authors of these 30 real-life tales find passion, surprise and illumination in the middle of Borneo or Beijing, in a Mayan...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Boys Town: Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Captains courageous: When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: One man is a paragon of virtue, the other a murderous creature of the London night. They are the same person. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale...
Author
Publisher
Zenith Press, an imprint of Quarto Pub. Group USA Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Experience the exciting combat tales of both Allied and Axis pilots around the world during World War II! 'Wings of war' encompasses the World War II air war from late 1939 through 1945 and provides a chronological snapshot not only of famous and significant events from the global air war, but also of other lesser-known events that are equally thrilling and important. Over three dozen different Allied and Axis airplanes are featured, giving you a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson and Sons
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Description
Dust jacket notes: "Sarah Emma Edmonds rode with the generals of the Civil War but her regiment thought she was a man and called her Franklin Thompson. In 1897 Sarah Emma Edmonds Seelye was mustered into the George B. McClellan Post, No. 9, and thus became the only woman member of the Grand Army of the Republic. Hers is an incredible story but after years of research Sylvia G.L. Dannett has verified the truth of most of the details of an astonishing...
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Contention and Other Frontier Stories, edited by Hazel Rumney, features seventeen brand-new stories that will delight historical fiction fans. These stories capture the spirit of freedom and individualism in the evolving American frontier through the early 1900s and feature exciting new characters who face life-changing challenges in settings that are in stark contrast to civilized society. Ranging from high-action traditional Westerns to introspective...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This book presents fifty-three African cities that illustrate the continent's diverse architecture and features over 700 color photographs.
A complete overview of architecture in fifty-three African cities, seen through the eyes and images of one of the world's leading young architects. Educated in England, David Adjaye's lifelong dream was to return to Africa as an architect to document the continent's built environment. Over a decade, he tirelessly...
150) Apache Springs
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bloody Arizona: "Yakima's life gets even more complicated than usual when four strangers ride into Apache Springs and shoot the town marshal while Yakima is locked in jail. They would have raped the marshal's wife and burned the entire town to the ground if Yakima hadn't shot his way out of the cell and intervened. Now the marshal's wife, Julia, calls on Yakima to wear her husband's badge and go up against the kill-crazy, vengeance-hungry Rebel Wilkes,...
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but also the triumphantly successful Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Twenty years after the end of the Civil War, Twain finally tells the story of his past...
154) The hands of Cantú
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
"The hands of Cantu" are the gifted hands of the best horseman ever seen in New Spain.
There was a time when horses and their riders were strangers to the vast reaches of the New World. There was a time when the explorer rode North, before there was a West, to search out the enormity of desert, mountain and sky. There was a time when strange foxfire gleamed in dark Spanish eyes, and the "malady of gold" infected the minds of the conquistadors. Here...
Author
Language
English
Description
The original edition of The Complete Poems, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This revised and expanded edition is the definitive volume of Sandburg's work, an also contains 113 poems not included in the 1950 collection. --Harcourt Trade Publishers.
157) Pasolini 101
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
Accattone: A graphic slice of Italian street life, this documentary-styled drama recounts a pimp's efforts to leave his past life behind him when he falls in love with a young woman.
Mamma Roma: Having renounced her ignominious past, a former streetwalker reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme endangers her aspirations for a decent bourgeois life.
Love meetings: Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing...
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