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Author
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traveling more than 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China, the authors of this narrative explore the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe. Closely observing daily life in these remote regions, they document the many lifestyles and adventures of the Chinese natives they visit an old Catholic fisherman at a church...
3) Léger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations (some color), portrait ; 32 cm.
Language
English
4) Anonymous
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
5) Lockout
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
6) Shut in
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality turns as slippery as her icy surroundings.
7) Shut in
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological thriller that will chill you to the bone. Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality turns as slippery as her icy surroundings.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Step into the shadows and trace the history of the vampire from ancient goddesses to Edward Cullen, not to mention Dracula, with this complete guide to the world's most beloved bloodsuckers." -- Back cover.
9) Upside down
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man ... battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams ... [posing] the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?"--Container sleeve.
11) Le livre d'orgue
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
2 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Latin
12) 100 silent films
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
This illuminating guide provides a selection of one hundred key films of the silent period (1895-1930), featuring films from a variety of countries, genres and directors, together with an introductory overview and usefull filmographic and bibliographic information.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound and silent, black and white, tinted and color ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (15 pages ; 19 cm)
Language
English
Description
"A unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay.This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic groups over three DVDs, presents amazing treasures from the vaults of Lobster Films in Paris and from the Blackhawk Films Collection,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He clawed his way up from the gutters of St. Giles to the top of a shadowy empire. Feared and fearsome, battered and brilliant, nothing shocks Lorcan St. Leger--not even the discovery of an aristocratic woman escaping out a window near the London docks on the eve of the storm of the decade. They find shelter at a boarding house called the Grand Palace on the Thames--only to find greater dangers await inside. Desperate, destitute, and jilted, Lady...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg--taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned to her former home and to the legendary Palais Garnier Opera House, to choreograph the ballet that will kickstart the next phase of her career--and, she hopes, finally make...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Lady of the Shroud (1909) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written just before the outbreak of the Balkan Wars, The Lady of the Shroud is a prophetic and politically informed work of fiction that helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early-twentieth century.
When Rupert Saint Leger is unexpectedly named heir to his uncle's fortune, he is even more surprised to learn the details of...
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A biographical-bibliographical guide to the writers who have received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Provides entries for each Nobel Prize Laureate, including the Nobel Prize in Literature presentation speech for the corresponding year and the banquet speech given by the Nobel Prize Laureate.
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Formats
Description
Essays on late-Victorian and Edwardian British novelists who are wrote in the Romantic tradition with special focus on writers considered neoromantic. Writers belonging under the heading of romance include those novelists fascinated by the psychic, the occult, and the supernatural.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "The Prince," Maxon reveals there was another girl in his life before America; and in "The Guard," America falls for Aspen Leger, a Six who has risen in the ranks to become a member of the royal guard.
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