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A pious man explained to his followers: "It is evil to take lives and noble to save them. Each day I pledge to save a hundred lives. I drop my net in the lake and scoop out a hundred fishes. I place the fishes on the bank, where they flop and twirl. 'Don't be scared,' I tell those fishes. 'I am saving you from drowning.' Soon enough, the fishes grow calm and lie still. Yet, sad to say, I am always too late. The fishes expire. And because it is evil...
3) Littlerock
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2012
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A sleepy Los Angeles exurb and its shiftless young residents are seen through the eyes of two Japanese tourists in an intimate evocation of a small town in Southern California where everyone's talking but no one really understands.
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Jocelyn Shore novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
310 p. ; 22 cm.
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"Texas high school teacher Jocelyn Shore and her cousin Kyla are on a once-in-a-lifetime guided tour of Egypt with a motley crew of fellow travelers when the most odious of the bunch, a nosy, disagreeable woman named Millie Owens, takes a fatal fall off of one of the great pyramids. And that's only the beginning. From the guide who always seems to be off on his cell phone having the most urgent conversations to the young woman who begs off of almost...
5) Slack bay
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.
7) Ammonite
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In the 1840s, acclaimed self-taught paleontologist Mary Anning works alone on the wild English coastline. She hunts for common fossils to sell to rich tourists to support herself. When one such tourist arrives in Lyme, he entrusts Mary with the care of his young wife Charlotte, who is recuperating from a personal tragedy. Despite their differences, it is the beginning of a passionate and all-consuming love affair that will defy all social bounds and...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
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1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A night in Terror Tower: Sue and Eddie are out sightseeing at the infamous Terror Tower when the wax figures in the Tower's torture chambers start to move. Suddenly the two are traveling back in time.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
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1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The world's top directors and some of America's top stars create a panoramic portrait of Paris. Find yourself transported by these sexy, romantic, haunting, dramatic, and beautiful stories.
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Jesse Braddock is trapped in a tiny cabin deep in the Everglades with her infant daughter and her ex-boyfriend, a wannabe reality TV star who turned out to be a lot prettier on the outside than on the inside. Broke and desperate for a way out, Jesse stumbles across a long-lost treasure, which could solve all her problems—if she can figure out how to keep it. The problem is, some very bad men are also looking for the treasure, and they know Jesse...
11) Babel
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 DVD (143 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
13) In Bruges
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Hit men Ray and Ken have been ordered to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges (it's in Belgium) after finishing a big job. But since hit men make the worst tourists, they soon find themselves in a life-and-death struggle of comic proportions against one very angry crime boss.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
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2 videodiscs (ca. 164 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Adela Quested is a plucky young woman who journeys from England with the free-spirited Mrs. Moore. Flouting convention, the two women accompany the handsome Dr. Azis on a tour of the mysterious Marabar Caves. But things turn ugly when Adela returns scratched and bloodied from the expedition. As British authorities urge her to press charges against Aziz, the line separating truth and fantasy begin to blur.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
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Junio de 1960. Un temporal mantiene aisladas en la idílica isla de Utakos, frente a Corfú, a nueve personas alojadas en el pequeño hotel local. Nada hace presagiar lo que está a punto de ocurrir: Edith Mander, una discreta turista inglesa, aparece muerta en el pabellón de la playa. Lo que parece un suicidio revela indicios imperceptibles para cualquiera salvo para Hopalong Basil, un actor en decadencia que en otro tiempo encarnó en la pantalla...
16) Las ruinas
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
412 p. ; 23 cm.
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Two American couples vacationing in Cancun, Mexico follow a German tourist in search of his brother, last seen heading toward some ruins with his new girlfriend.
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Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean...
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Inversgail, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands, welcomes home native daughter and best-selling environmental writer Daphne Wood. Known as the icon of ecology, Daphne will spend three months as the author in residence for the Inversgail schools. Janet Marsh and her business partners at Yon Bonnie Books are looking forward to hosting a gala book signing for her. Daphne, who hasn?t set foot in Scotland in thirty years, is--eccentric. She lives...
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Minnesota trilogy volume 1
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 24 cm.
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" Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel and named by Dagbladet as one of the top twenty-five Norwegian crime novels of all time, The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstøl's critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy, set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the region's small towns and deep forests. The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has...
20) Lost in Thailand
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two rival business managers try to track down their boss at a Buddhist temple in Thailand to obtain a patent on a revolutionary new technology and along the way, they meet a tourist who is eager to explore the country.
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