Jennifer Fox
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Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," and John Keats's "A Thing of Beauty" (from Endymion) are among the classic poems collected in this pocket-sized edition. Now you can readily spend a few moments each day with these timeless verses because Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems fits easily into any size...
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Find a hundred ways to say "I love you" with a heartwarming collection featuring poets from Shakespeare to Shelley.
"If ever two were one, then surely we." -Anne Bradstreet
Shakespeare's sonnets; the elegant words of Robert Browning; the poignant works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; the stirring poetry of Christina Rossetti-all are collected here in this celebration of romantic passion and deep abiding love.
Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo...
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On what otherwise seemed to be an ordinary spring night in 1994, Jennifer Foster, a young, struggling, single mother receives an unexpected phone call. What she learns is anything but ordinary. There has been an unusual accident and the details are unclear, however she learns that her younger brother, a popular, high school football star, scheduled to graduate from high school in six weeks has been involved. When she arrives at the hospital, the scene...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Ladies and Gentlemen, it's Friday night, and these kids are ready to wrestle! Join Dangerous Daddoo as he dishes out some serious moves to get the kids ready for bed. But what happens when Flying Mom Bomb gets home from work? Are the kids toast?
6) Duplicity
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1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick and ex-MI6 agent Ray Koval are both racing to secure the formula for a product that will bring untold wealth to the company that lands the patent first. As the stakes begin to rise, so does the passion between Claire and Ray. Meanwhile, their mutual employers, industry giant Howard Tully and trailblazing CEO Dick Garsik start resorting to some seriously underhanded tactics as each hopes to gain an advantage over the...
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
10) Nightcrawler
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1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
11) Syriana
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1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues -- his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's...
12) The last duel
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1 videodisc (approximately 153 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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King Charles VI declares that knight Jean de Carrouges must settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined."--Imdb.