Alvin Rakoff

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1) The Seven Einsteins

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Rakoff, Alvin

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English

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In 1967 the President of the United States is confronted in the Oval office by a team of Americas leading geneticists who seek his approval to begin a new, top secret experiment. Reluctantly the President agrees. But kneeling in bedside prayer that night, the President begs forgiveness for allowing The Einstein Experiment to commence. Four decades later all bar one of the geneticists who beseeched the President have been mysteriously killed. The teams...

2) A dance to the music of time

Pub. Date

[2007]

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English

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Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.

3) A voyage round my father

Pub. Date

[2010]

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English

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A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.

4) Hoffman

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Peter Sellers collection

Pub. Date

2003

Edition

Widescreen.

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English

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A middle-aged businessman blackmails a beautiful young secretary into spending a week with him. What begins as a seemingly sinister ordeal develops into a bond between the two.

5) The first Olympics: Athens 1896

Pub. Date

[2008]

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English

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A look at the creation of the American team for the Olympics in 1896, and of their journey to get to Athens, where the games were being held.

6) The best of friends: Eagle in a cage

Pub. Date

[1991]

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English

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In 1924, George Bernard Shaw was introduced to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, England. Along with their mutual friend, Sydney Cockerell, director of Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the trio enjoyed twenty-five years of letters, literary debate and laughter. Relive their vigorous discussions on everything from the existence of God, to the finer points of tango dancing. Eagle in a cage: A school-teacher-turned-governor...