Describes an 11-day ordeal faced by the 17-year old sole survivor of an airplane crash in the Peruvian jungle in 1971.
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An artist's life, a pact with the devil, and the dangerous illusions of the silver screen. G.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of the new and unrecognizable Germany, he fled t...
A mere week has passed since DI Tom Thorne (David Morrissey) solved the case of a serial killer who paralysed a victim so she was trapped in her own body. Now he's on the case of two more murders in the second thorne adaptation, scaredycat. This time, a prostitute and young mum a...
When the body of a washed-up rocker is found riddled with puncture wounds, his arms tied to his bed, suspicion immediately falls on his frequent sexual partner Catherine Tramell. In the wealthy, sexually aggressive mystery writer's most recent novel, a rock star is murdered in pr...
Private Benjamin: A pampered, spoiled upper-middle class widow joins the army and the army will never be the same.
Three cousins raised as brothers are torn apart, forcing them to follow separate paths. One searches for truth in the law. One expresses his passion through art. And, one finds power in prison. Yet through it all, family and honor keep their lives intertwined as each strives for ...
Follow the lives of nine strangers living worlds apart as they look for love, happiness, success, and friendship against all odds. Carrying a burden of guilt, they must escape their pasts before they can move forward.
After the murders of his wife and young daughter at the hands of a ruthless crime family, an ex-marine seeks revenge by picking off members of the gang one by one until he completes his mission, even if it costs him his own life in the process.
"From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse. "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." These are the openin...
The story of an immensely wealthy newspaper publisher, as he is remembered by his friends and former wife after his death. Loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst. Frequently called the greatest film of all time.
"...original writings by Lynn Andrews, Melody Beattie, Joan Borysenko, Jack Canfield, Stephen R. Covey, Wayne Dyer, Betty Eadie, Robert Fulghum, John Gray, Jon Kabat-Zim, Thomas Moore, Ram Dass, Bernie Siegel, and others."
Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Uncertain of what he wants to do with his life, college graduate Benjamin Braddock returns home. And when the wife of his father's business partner, the sexy Mrs. Robinson, seduces him, the affair only deepens his confusion. That is, until he meets the girl of his dreams. But the...
Westminster Abbey, the church at which all English monarchs have been crowned since 1066, is one of the great musical centers of the Western world. Countless organists, singers, and composers have been closely associated with the abbey, which still plays a preponderant role in th...
Two feuding vaudeville comedians who toured the country for 43 years as The Sunshine Boys are reunited after years apart to make a television commercial--if they can keep from murdering each other.
Biologist Domenica Ligrina fears her planet is dying. She might be right. An atomic disaster in Germany has contaminated Northern Europe with radioactivity. Economic and political calamities are destroying the whole planet. Human DNA is mutating, plant species are going extinct, ...
Daniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting and picturesque book of magical realism and adventure. It is the story of the 17th century vagabond performer and trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel that begins before he is enshrined in rumors a...