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English
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His girl Friday: Ace reporter Hilde Parks is ready to quit journalism and get married, but events--and her ex-husband editor--conspire to prevent it.
Penny serenade: A couple tries to hold their marriage together as they experience troubles while trying to start a family and a new business.
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Language
English
Description
During WWII, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it icomes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny a criminal act or an act of courage to save...
5) Picnic
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
On Labor Day, drifter Hal Carter arrives in a sleepy Kansas town in hope of landing a job with his fraternity brother's family business. He quickly attracts the women in town, and his plans go awry when he falls for his friend's girl.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Expanded edition.
Language
English
Description
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. That previous work assumed what Rawls calls a "well-ordered society," one that is stable and relatively homogenous in its basic moral beliefs and in which there is broad agreement about what constitutes the good life. Yet in modern democratic society a plurality of incompatible...
11) Gilda
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"Johnny Farrell goes to work for Ballin Mundson, the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's 'main man.' All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride, Gilda-- a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson, unaware of their previous love affair, assigns Farrell the job of keeping Gilda a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred, Gilda does her best to antagonize, intimidate, and instill...
12) Sahara
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An explosive war story about a ragtag battalion stranded in the great African desert, after the fall of Tobruk during World War II.
13) Lost horizon
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
14) The last hurrah
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Frank Skeffington, the political boss of a New England town, fights his last campaign. This flavorful melodrama is based on Edwin O'Connor's novel of politics, loosely patterned after the life of Boston's Mayor Curley.
Language
English
Description
Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.
18) Queen bee
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A drama showing how a neurotic, insincere Southern woman brings unhappiness to her husband, family, and friends in an attempt to insure her own security and position of dominance.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A couple having an illicit affair witness a murder while on a romantic rendezvous and can't report it without exposing their infidelities; a young waitress steals money from her boss who cheated her father years ago; women inmates suffer at the hands of a sadistic warden; a dancer-turned-photographer with a talent for illegal business heads for New York and gets in over her head.
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A diamond smuggler returns to New York from Cuba, unknowingly bringing small pox with her; a crooked lawyer's scheme to swindle money out of a wealthy old man goes wrong; upon returning from the Korean War, Dr. Tom Owen must choose between a lucrative but unchallenging practice or using his skills to help the poor; as he is about to be deported, Peter jumps ship in New York Harbor and searches for the man who can prove his right to legal entry into...
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