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Jeeves and Wooster volume 2
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My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse is a collection of comedic work featuring three of Wodehouse's famous characters. Bertie is an idle rich man, who is always ready to help his friends. However, he would never be able to do so without the help of his odd but intelligent valet, Jeeves. Said to be the prototype for Bertie, Reggie Pepper is also rich Englishman dedicated to assisting his friends, however, unlike Bertie, he often has to act as the brains...
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"Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down." ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Room
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down...
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of Bertrand Morane, a bachelor who is obsessed with women. Bertrand is no Don Juan-he is an intelligent and sensitive man who adores women of all ages, shapes and sizes. In an effort to understand his obsession, Bertrand writes his memoirs and remembers all the women he has loved.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
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"A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend...
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Jeeves and Wooster volume 8
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In this seventh installment of the Jeeves series, the unflappable butler once again must apply his cleverness to rescue Bertie Wooster- this time from being arrested, lynched, and engaged by mistake! Chaos ensues when Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie help dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century cow creamer. Complications grow as Bertie's pal Gussie Fink-Nottle is more interested in studying the effects of a full moon on...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Andrew's been feeling stuck. For years he's worked a thankless public health job, searching for the next of kin of those who die alone. Luckily, he goes home to a loving family every night. At least, that's what his coworkers believe. Then he meets Peggy. A misunderstanding has left Andrew trapped in his own white lie and his lonely apartment. When new employee Peggy breezes into the office like a breath of fresh air, she makes Andrew feel truly...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
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Two friends-who still live with their parents, are resolutely kind, and like to read and play board games-discover that they are not considered “normal” and struggle to protect their concept of what's meaningful in life.
8) Cicatriz
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
576 pages
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Simon Sax podría ser un tipo afortunado. Es joven, listo y está punto de convertirse en multimillonario si vende su gran invento, un asombroso algoritmo a una multinacional. Y, sin embargo, se siente solo. Su éxito contrasta con sus nulas habilidades sociales. Hasta que un día entra en una web de contactos donde se enamora perdidamente de Irina, con la inexperiencia y la pasión de un adolescente a pesar de los miles de kilómetros que los separan....
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Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 23 cm
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Judy Lee's life has not turned out the way she'd imagined. She's divorced, she's broke, and her dreams of being a painter have fallen by the wayside. Her co-worker Roger might be a member of the Yakuza gang, but he's also the only person who's asked her on a date in the last year.
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2002]
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1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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When junior shipping mogul Josh Mallon comes too close to getting hitched, he and his best buddy Ace Lannigan run to the furthest point they can find on a map--Singapore. The first of the famous "Road" pictures starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby as a team of irrepressible bachelors, the scenery includes Dorothy Lamour as the beautiful live-in housekeeper they bring home.
11) Alfie
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A wild and ribald comedy, filled with sex and sin, about a successful London playwright who is also a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about.
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The disastrous banjo-playing of Bertram "Bertie" Wooster has driven the otherwise steadfast gentleman's gentleman Jeeves to give notice- because even butlers have limits. In anger, Bertie disappears to the country with his new valet Brinkley as a guest of Lord " Chuffy" Chuffnell, who has employed the services of the recently resigned Jeeves. Bertie soon finds himself in no shortage of trouble as he encounters...
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Much to Bertie's astonishment, The Times has announced his engagement to the beautiful Bobbie Wickham. To add to the confusion, Uncle Tom's antique silver cow-creamer is missing; Kipper Herring has libeled his former headmaster; and British psychiatrist Sir Roderick Glossop is posing as a butler. As always, it takes the unflappable Jeeves to sort everything out.
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Jeeves and Wooster volume 15
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With help from Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman, Bertie Wooster contrives to help a friend escape from a designing woman.
15) The cat-nappers
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Publisher
Blackstone AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p1996
Physical Desc
4 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
17) Work song
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Series
Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1919, itinerant schoolteacher Morrie Morgan journeys to Butte in the hopes of making his fortune in copper mining but finds instead a rich assortment of local characters before an encounter with a former student leads to a violent union uprising.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rosie is an older, divorced professional who has had little luck in love. She finally finds a fitting companion in the form of Adam, a much younger man. As her relationship threatens to move beyond something simply physical, her teenage daughter, Izzie, begins to wonder if the strange tingling sensation that she feels when she is in the company of a handsome local boy could possibly be what adults refer to as 'love.' Of course anything is possible...
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BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2008], p1998, 2006
Physical Desc
3 CDs (3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The rural beauty of Steeple Bumpleigh holds no attractions for Bertie, containing (as it does) the appalling Aunt Agatha. But there is man's work to do and, with Jeeves at his side, how can Bertie fail?
20) Greenberg
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Roger Greenberg is single, fortyish and deliberately doing nothing. In search of a place to restart his life, he agrees to housesit for his brother in LA and tries to reconnect with his former bandmate and successful ex-girlfriend. But old friends aren't necessarily still best friends, and Greenberg soon finds himself forging a connection with his brother's personal assistant, Florence. Greenberg has come to realize that he may at last have found...
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