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Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Harry Stoner is caught in a violent collision with his past and present life. He believes there is nothing significant in his life except survival, and that instinct pushes him beyond moral conduct.
2) The death of the grown-up: how America's arrested development is bringing down Western civilization
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?" But, the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed them was incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score, took hold in the seventies with the help of multiculturalism and left us with a nation of eternal adolescents who can't decide between...
Author
Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
538 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Comtesse Valtesse de la Bigne was a celebrated nineteenth-century Parisian courtesan. She was painted by Manet and inspired Emile Zola, who immortalized her in his scandalous novel Nana. Her rumored affairs with Napoleon III and the future Edward VII kept gossip columns full. But her glamorous existence hid a dark secret: she was no Comtesse. She was born into abject poverty, raised on a squalid Paris backstreet; the lowest of the low. Yet she transformed...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; cm
Description
In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders? warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up. Levin returns to the impassioned question he's explored in each of his bestselling books: How do we save our exceptional country? Because our values are in such a precarious state, he argues that a restoration...
Series
Criterion collection volume 411
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (940 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (71 p. ; ill., col. ; 19 cm.)
Description
After spending four years in prison for killing his girlfriend, lumbering man-child Franz Biberkopf is finally released back into society. He wants to stay honest now he has left jail, but it is tough in the Alexanderplatz section of Berlin. After failing to succeed in several 'regular' jobs, he falls in with some old cohorts and an on-again, off-again association with thugs. Post-war society is crumbling, and it appears that nothing will bring...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xxviii, 388 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
A study of the life and reign of King Louis XIV from the perspective of his intimate relationships with the women in his life, from his mother, Anne of Austria, and his official queen, Marie-The?re?se, to his many mistresses.
10) Final report
Author
Publisher
San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
v. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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