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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Murder over New York: Charlie Chan and his son are on vacation in the Big Apple where they find themelves in the middle of a murder investigation after a policeman turns up dead.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum: When a convicted murderer, who was brought to justice by Charlie Chan himself, breaks free of his shackles and escapes into the night, the resourceful Chan knows it's only a matter of time before he will strike again.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Four strangers board a plane and become fast friends. A catastrophic plane crash puts an end to the sufferings of three ill-fated passengers, Binky Gay, Dr. Fortness, and Eddie Hoke. For the fourth, Trask, a lawyer, it gives him a second chance, even though he believes his wife no longer loves him. Airline officials prepare to inform the loves ones of those killed, but Trask asks to be allowed to carry the news to the families of his friends himself....
83) Rawhide
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A gang of outlaws seize a stage coach way-station, kill the station manager and hold the surviving man and woman captive while they await the arrival of a gold shipment.
84) The virgin queen
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"In an effort to advance his ambition to sail to the New World on behalf of his beloved England, the future Sir Walter Raleigh enamors himself to the Queen. She initially rebuffs him, but he slowly wins her over--not just in business, but also in her heart. However, when he falls in love and marries one of her ladies-in-waiting, Raleigh enrages Elizabeth and risks everything he's fought for"--Container.
86) Black Jack
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
35th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
An adventure story about an honest young boy, Tolly Pickering, forced on the run with a villainous ruffian named Black Jack. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and travelling fairs, they find friendship in the most unlikely places.
87) Queen Margot
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
20th anniversary director's cut.
Language
Français
Formats
Description
The King of France marries his sister of the protestant huguenot King Henry of Navarre. But she is already having an affair with the protestant La Mole. Her mother, is already plottign the day that would become known as St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Italiano
Description
Padre Padrone: Gavino is six when his father hauls him out of school to keep watch over sheep on a barren countryside, huddled in a makeshift hut night and day. The child is constantly abused by his father who treats him as his own father treated him. When the illiterate Gavino is commanded by his father to join the army, he learns a trade and a new concept of life, discovering the outside world and his own identity within it.
Night of the shooting...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Français
Description
A married woman leaves her middle-class husband for a leather-jacketed stud she meets in a disco; a family copes with life's changes as the matriarch lies dying from cancer; follows a group of working-class teenagers in northern France in their final year of school.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
During the middle of the sixteenth century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France, after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin, but he seems to know all about his friends, his family, and his wife, even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin Guerre?
94) Hester Street
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
An Eastern European Jewish woman comes to turn-of-the-century Lower East Side in New York to join her husband and is reluctant to shed her ethnic heritage and embrace American ways as her husband has.
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