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Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seem...

Unabridged selections from a collection of cherished poems, songs, and lullabies, including beloved classics and modern favorites from Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Jack Prelutsky, Shel Silverstein, Rodgers & Hammerstein. Features a bonus pdf of paintings by James McMullan.

"Posters have always been used to seek an immediate response-designed to provoke a reaction, whether a public appeal, a legal threat, a call to arms, the offer of thrills, or to sell a product. Organized chronologically, 100 posters that changed the world charts the evolution of ...

Lectures cover English historical periods from Roman times to the Tudor conquest.

Kissin' cousins: An Army officer returns to the Smoky Mountains and tries to convince his kinfolk to allow the Army to build a missile site on their land. Once he gets there, he discovers he has a lookalike cousin. Live a little, love a little: Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses...

Stand and deliver: A teacher in a Los Angeles barrio inspires his students to excel at math and to pass the Calculus Advanced Placement Test.

Vol. one of America's greatest westerns covers feel-good musicals to traditional bad-boy shootouts all in the dusty streets and rowdy saloons we've come to love. Features cowboy legends Randolph Scott, Gene Autry, Lee Van Cleef, Roy Rogers, Marlon Brando and of course, John Wayne...

""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie. Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebr...

Based on the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, these films star John Rhys-Davies as the leader of a group traveling through Africa investigating rumors of amazing beasts. The crew discovers more than they bargained for: a lost world where dinosaurs still roam the land and primitive...

In Scarlet Street a lonely bank clerk is ensnarled in an embezzlement scheme by an alluring streetwalker. In The Red House a reclusive farmer living with his spinster sister and adopted daughter goes to extreme lengths to protect the dark secret of a decaying house on his propert...

On a train trip West to become a mail order bride, Susan Bradley meets a cheery crew of young women traveling out to open a "Harvey House" restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers. When Susan and her bashful suitor fi...

"From 1953 to 1959, Edward R. Murrow informally welcomed television viewers into the homes of the twentieth century's most well-known stars. Utilizing perhaps the simplest set in television--a chair, a table, an ashtray and a picture window--, Murrow greeted two guests a week in ...

Every 3-11 P.M. third watch shift brings a rush of risk and fear into the lives of the brave and dedicated people who serve as police, fire fighters and paramedics. For them, keeping the New York City streets safe and answering cries for help are all in a day's work.

Up in arms: Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe. Wonder man: Boisterous nightclub entertainer Buzzy Bellew w...

A man whose private dream of establishing a sanctuary for geese interferes with the commercial development of a hunting resort runs afoul of cynical and vested interests, who in turn manipulate him and his close family for their own selfish ends. Can this end happily? Of course i...