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Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the Master of Suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, was the first film the director made after signing to the Gaumont-British Picture Corporation.
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English
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Clark Ashton Smith - widely regarded as the third of the "Big Three" to emerge from the early days of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (after H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard) - published dozens of weird fantasy tales. "The Abominations of Yondo" is one of his finest.
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Series
Fugitive poems volume 2d series, 1st v
Publisher
Xiccarph Edition
Pub. Date
1974
Language
English
Publisher
LaserLight
Pub. Date
c2001, [c1999]
Language
English
Description
"Married couple Bob and Jill Lawrence are vacationing in Switzerland with daughter Betty. A Frenchman who befriends the family is shot through the heart during a dance with the young mother. Before dying, however, he whispers a secret... What follows is an unusually fine dramatic story, filled with hallmark Hitchcockian twists and turns, breathless chase scenes and superb acting."-container.
8) Micah Clarke
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English
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This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story about the experiences of a Protestant in England seeking adventure during the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
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Northwest historical volume 6-8
Publisher
A. H. Clark Co
Pub. Date
1963-1966
Language
English
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Series
Journal of Illinois State History volume 11
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
1918.
Language
English
Description
An article describing the town of Nauvoo, Illinois. Nauvoo was one of the first towns settled by the Mormons, lead by Joseph Smith. The author describes some of the architecture of the town and how, at the time, it was so remote that it fell into disrepair after the Mormons moved to the West.
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English
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"In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry - that the black...
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English
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Jefferson Smith is a small town idealist who answers the call to duty when he's unexpectedly named to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. Senate. Determined to do some good, he sponsors a bill to create a national boy's camp, unaware it threatens to undermine a graft scheme sponsored by his home state's crooked political machine. Framed and threatened with expulsion, Jefferson takes to the Senate floor to prove his innocence.
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English
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"From an acclaimed military historian, the interlocking lives of three of the most important and consequential generals in World War II. Born in the two decades prior to World War I, George Patton, Bernard Montgomery, and Erwin Rommel became among the most recognized and successful military leaders of the twentieth century. However, as acclaimed military historian Lloyd Clark reveals in his penetrating and insightful braided chronicle of their lives,...
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