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Publisher
BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Limited
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Steve Myers is told the lightning that struck and obliterated his fishing boat was an Act of God and not a penny shall he receive, he decides that this excuse is not good enough. And so he sues God.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (128 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Author
Description
"Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, she's had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered....
6) The golden volcano =: Le volcan d'or : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 340 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Two Canadian cousins who unexpectedly inherit a Klondike mining claim are thrust into the heart of the perils and hardships of the gold rush, until a deathbed confidence sends them on a quest to find a fabulous gold-filled volcano on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
Series
Description
Rudy is a young lawyer fresh out of college who takes the case of his life. He is the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. Rudy takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and...
Pub. Date
2015
Formats
Description
Sixty years after she fled Vienna during World War II, an elderly Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, starts her journey to retrieve family possessions seized by the Nazis, among them Klimt's famous painting Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Together with her inexperienced but plucky young lawyer Randy Schoenberg, she embarks upon a major battle which takes them all the way to the heart of the Austrian establishment and the U.S. Supreme Court.
10) The fraud
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Appears on list
Description
"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
11) The veteran's PTSD handbook: how to file and collect on claims for post-traumatic stress disorder
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
v. : forms ; 23 cm.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
Menachem Kaiser's story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery-that his grandfather's cousin not only survived...
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