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"On the hundredth anniversary of the end of World War I: a hardcover edition of the classic tale of a young German soldier's harrowing experiences in the trenches, widely acclaimed as the greatest war novel of all time. When twenty-year-old Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army during World War I, they are full of youthful enthusiam. But the world of duty, culture, and progress they had been taught to believe in shatters under...
2) Many moons
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Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
3) Night
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Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedication...
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1987, c1933
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Ernest Hemingway's first new book of fiction, since the publication of A Farewell to Arms in 1929, contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" is about an old Spanish Beggar. "Homage to Switzerland" concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant. "The Gambler,...
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1989.
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Harry and Sally, best friends, debate the question of whether or not sex will ruin the perfect friendship.
"Will sex ruin a perfect relationship between a man and a woman? That's what Harry and Sally debate during their trip from Chicago to New York. And eleven years later, they're still no closer to finding the answer. Will these two best friends ever accept that they're meant for each other .. or will they continue to deny the attraction that's...
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2001
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Marion Post, una brillante profesora de Filosofía, ha solicitado una excedencia para escribir un libro. Un día descubre que desde el estudio en el que se ha instalado para trabajar puede escuchar las sesiones de psicoanálisis de una consulta contigua. Las conmovedoras confesiones de una de las pacientes la llevan a analizar en profundidad su propia vida, que descubre vacía y apoyada en el autoengaño y el miedo a las emociones.
12) Black robe
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2001
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In the 17th century, Father Laforgue, a young Jesuit priest, is assigned to go up river into the Canadian wilderness to convert the Huron Indians. His young aide and translator, Daniel, falls in love with Annuka, the daughter of the Algonquin chief. Torn between his own desires and ideals of the priesthood, Laforgue's faith is tested, and his life and the outcome of the mission imperiled, as the expedition faces the elements and hostile Indians.
13) The Cotton Club
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[2001]
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In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
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[2001]
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Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.
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2010
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As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. Witches, Midwives, and Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witch hunters. In this new edition, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English...
18) Churchill
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[2017]
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Follows British prime minister Winston Churchill as he faces the possibilities of victory or defeat during the Allied invasion of Normandy, France, in 1944.
19) Faces places
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[2018]
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Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.