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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Susan moves with her father from America to England, she ends up falling in love with and marrying Sir John Ashwood, an English baronet. But, before their son is born, Susan loses her husband to World War I. When World War II breaks out years later, her son's own tour of duty begins. Finding out whether he will return home safely or not makes for some of the most dramatic moments in motion picture history.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A fast-food tycoon, his ex-wife and a gourmet magazine publisher are involved in a fast and funny murder mystery. The publisher is ordered by his doctor to give up his favorite dishes to lose weight, and one by one the creators of those dishes are murdered- in the manner of their specialties!
83) Wichita
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
One of the final cycle of classical westerns of the mid to late Fifties which culminated in 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance'. McCrea plays the legendary Wyatt Earp whose reluctant acceptance of the role of town marshal brings him into conflict with cattle interests and the town's businessmen.
84) Winter kill
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The ski resort Police Chief Sam McNeill is the target of a serial killer who leaves no clues, except taunting messages spray-painted next to the bodies of his, or her, victims.
86) Young Tom Edison
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The teenage years of brilliant inventor Thomas Alva Edison as the young man troubles his family and his school teachers with his great quest for knowledge.
87) Above and beyond
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Col. Paul Tibbetts was the man who piloted the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in WWII.
88) Arizona dream
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Newly arrived in small-town Arizona from New York city, Axel plans to stay only long enough to be best man at his uncle's wedding, but he soon discovers that desert life has its charms - including an attractive older woman and her intriguing daughter.
Series
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
What do you do with a pitcher whose dominance has helped his team claim two world-championship banners? If the pitcher is burly lefty George Herman Ruth, you banish him from the mound, put a bat in his hand and watch him clout one record-setting home run after another. William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder and Sultan of Swat in a movie that mixes fact, fiction and more fiction in a way that makes it a...
91) Being human
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In five distinct yet cleverly interlocked roles, tells of a man who is a cave dweller, a Roman slave, a medieval wayfarer, a Portuguese nobleman shipwrecked in Africa and a modern Manhattanite whose homelife has hit the rocks. Each character reaches for survival, love, belonging; for all the things that made humankind draw together in the first place. Each is a human being faced with an unforgettable and universal challenge: Being Human.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
95) Countdown
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Russian and American spaceships race to land the first manned spaceship on the moon. Attracted by the power and the glory of being the first man on the moon, Astronaut Steigler is willing to risk everything for this singular honor, including his marriage.
96) Cry wolf
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In a struggle over the family fortune, an ominous secret that plagues the Caldwell estate enshrouds all its inhabitants in a mantle of morbidity and malice.
98) Devotion
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Sisters Emily and Charlotte Bronte lived to write, weaving tales rich with characters, incident and passion from the poor Yorkshire vicarage they called home. Devotion tells the story -- with more than a dash of literary license -- of these daring women who created Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
99) Dying room only
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A woman has a harrowing experience at a ramshackle roadside diner in the middle of the desert where she and her husband stop to eat. When she goes to the restroom, her husband disappears, and both the hostile cook and the other customer claim ignorance.
100) Edison, the man
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
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