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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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"Often referred to as the 'father of science fiction,' H.G. Wells' tales of time travel and alien invasion have enthralled generations. His 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds, tells the story of an invasion from Mars and the ensuing conflict between the Martians and mankind. This tribute to Wells' most famous novel contains the full, original text, expertly brought to life through a series of illustrations by artist Adam Rufino. Also included are features...
3) Orthodoxy
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One of the twentieth century's most admired and influential authors, G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) created an enduring body of work that encompasses journalism, poetry, plays, history, biography, apologetics, and detective fiction.
Through this book Chesterton leads us on a literary journey toward truth. A unique book, Orthodoxy addresses our faith struggles and how we communicate our faith to others. In this timeless classic, G.K. Chesterton,...
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"In Cocktail Time a Brazil nut playfully flung through the window of the Drones Club knocks off a gentleman's top hat and catapults Uncle Fred into action bringing "sweetness and light to all." In this hilarious jab at the publishing industry, an anonymously penned novel about the nut incident has nobody suspecting the culprit and everybody scrambling for the royalties ... then the movie rights come up for sale" -- P.[4] of cover.
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On doctor's orders, Bertie Wooster retires to sample the bucolic delights of Maiden Eggesford. But his idyll is rudely shattered by Aunt Dahlia who wants him to nobble a racehorse. Similar blots on Bertie's horizon come in the shape of Major Plank, the African explorer; Vanessa Cook, proud beauty and 'molder of men'; and Orlo Porter, who seems to have nothing else to do but think of sundering Bertie's head from his body.
7) Squared away
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240 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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In this collection of classic Doonesbury comics, Alex and Toggle wed while key characters struggle with career woes and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan take center stage in the lives of others.
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xxviii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
10) The stranger
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1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Frank Kindler is a Nazi war criminal who has fled to America, where he disguises himself as a small town schoolteacher. Mary is the young woman who falls in love with the devious, yet charming Kindler.
11) Australia
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1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land, only to still face the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by the Japanese forces that had attacked Pearl Harbor only months earlier....
12) Moby Dick
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1 videodisc (184 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this two-part made-for-TV retelling of the legendary Herman Melville tale, Ishmael, sole survivor of the lost whaling ship The Pequod, relates the tale of monomaniacal Captain Ahab 's self-destructive obsession to hunt and slay the elusive great white whale, Moby Dick, who disfigured him, forcing his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
13) The time machine
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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From H.G. Wells' landmark novel comes the tale of an inventor of a time-travel device that whisks him through a war-ravaged 20th century and into a far-off era where humans are enslaved by evil subterranean mutants.
14) 3 days to kill
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1 videodisc (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter, whom he's previously kept at arm's length to keep out of danger. First, he must complete one last mission, even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years while his wife...
15) Brick
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Brendon Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
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1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A female convict meets a man and arranges to marry him to qualify for an early parole. She doesn't really want to be married and starts up a rock and roll band. She also meets a gubernatorial candidate and has an affair.
17) Timbuktu
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives, which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith, abruptly disturbed when they are forced to follow the new laws of their foreign occupants.
When he accidentally kills a fisherman who slaughtered his cow, cattle herder Kidane and his family, who have been living in peace, are subjected to rule under the Jihadists.
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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. He is commissioned to paint Griet, and the result is one of the greatest paintings ever created.
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6 videodiscs (approximately 924 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Living among the ordinary citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four teenagers who are not there by choice. Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess are humans with extraordinary gifts. They are human/alien hybrids, sent here as replacements for the royalty of an alien race. This year the show will be built around around the relationships between human and aliens.