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1) Catherine
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Yvan est un brillant entrepreneur animé par un esprit de bravoure et le désir de transmettre le bonheur à sa descendance. Menant une vie tranquille avec sa famille, ce dernier se doute qu'un incident majeur viendra perturber cet équilibre qu'il chérit tant, au moment o il s'y attendra le moins. Toutefois, une rencontre et une opportunité le ramèneront à ses jours heureux et lui feront devenir l'homme qu'il a toujours voulu être.
2) Catherine
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Catherine, a young Irish peasant girl and other young teens from her village are taken away by English slave traders. Thrown into a sailing ship and taken to the other side of the world, Catherine fears for her future. She is purchased by a mysterious man and taken to his sugar plantation. Will she survive? What manner of creature is this man they call Master Lavelle? This vampire romance is set in the mid-1600's in the Caribbean. Follow Catherine's...
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A minor German princess with connections to Swedish royalty, the future Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia began as the handpicked bride of the future Czar. When he ascended the throne, Catherine plotted his overthrow, took power, and began to pull her country out of the dark ages. She led Russia for 30 years, creating an enviable dynasty build on cunning and ruthlessness, in addition to newfound notions of justice, progress, and a centralized...
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2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Charts Catherine the Great's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea.
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xv, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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A portrait of the eighteenth-century Russian empress documents her rise from a little-known German princess to become one of Europe's most celebrated monarchs, in an account that offers insight into her public and private achievements.
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel premiered on Broadway, it was described by Arlene Croce -- dance critic for The New Yorker magazine -- as "A major event in our theater," with "dancing of astonishing beauty and power." It was then completely refashioned by Tharp especially for television, with computer-generated figures, shadow-play, and reverse action - creating a wholly separate video version that has also met with overwhelming praise. The...
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The crime boss and the hustling queen are back for one last goodbye …Cross and Catherine watch as their kids grow up, and everything changes again. Life is still as busy as it ever was for these two, and their family.Cece and Nazio are trying to figure this life thing out. From toddling babies to wedding bells, everything they've ever wanted is already at their fingertips.Go behind the scenes and beyond the final chapter of the Cross + Catherine...
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160 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.
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Chronicles the life of eighteenth-century Russian empress Catherine the Great, covering such aspects as her difficult early years of marriage, her fierce ambition, and the political intrigue that shaped her reign.
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.
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xiv, 466 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Traces the remarkable history of Catherine the Great's influential art collection and creation of the Hermitage, discussing how her cultural goals were part of a long-term plan to modernize and westernize Russia.
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