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English
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Wallace Ritchie, an American vacationer in London, doesn't know that the bullets are real and the truth serum true. He thinks the intrigue erupting around him is part of an audience-participation theater event. Yet the world's fate depends on this gullible goofus who can't even spell CIA.
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
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Language
English
Description
Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School.
6) Promise
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Language
English
Description
Bob, a feckless bachelor, promised his mother that at her death he would care for his schizophrenic younger brother D.J. but he becomes apprehensive when the time comes. Facing up to his responsibility, Bob tries his best, but his set ways and D.J.'s erratic behavior mix like oil and water. Giving his promise one last shot, Bob takes D.J. on a fishing trip to the secluded lake where they vacationed as children. Here, the rush of memories transforms...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For 300 years the ghost of Simon de Canterville, entombed alive by his father for cowardice, has been roaming his castle in search of a kinsman to free him by performing a brave deed. In 1943, from a troop of American soldiers billeted in the castle, comes new hope: Sir Simon's long lost nephew.
8) Dear heart
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Pub. Date
?2014.
Language
English
Description
Harry, a roving salesman with a roving eye has met his match in a haughty, worldly-wise widow he plans to marry. But Harry is in for a big surprise : a blossoming wallflower named Evie has found him.
11) Foreign affairs
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A spinsterish, no-nonsense college teacher from New England hopes to do plenty of reading on her trans-Atlantic flight to Europe. But Vinnie spends the entire nine hours trying to politely evade the talkative Chuck Mumpson's non-stop chit-chat. When they finally land in London, Vinnie goes her own way to begin an extended research project at Oxford Library and Chuck just goes away ... or so she hopes.
13) The Cisco Kid
Series
Pub. Date
2012, 1994
Language
English
Description
Narrow escapes, romances and military battles keep Cisco (Smits) and Pancho (Marin) busy as they try to save Mexico from the unwelcome French.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The best-ever movie version of Mark Twain's classic Royal mix-up. Errol Flynn duels into action in Warner Bros.' spectacular, spirited film of Mark Twain's classic novel. Amid 16th-century England's pomp and poverty, two look-alike lads, one a beggar and one young Edward VI, exchange identities for a lark. But their switch backfires and it's up to soldier of Fortune Miles Hendon (Flynn) to turn the tables on a conspirator (Claude Rains) and return...
15) Humoresque
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
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Pub. Date
©2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1865, just after the end of the Civil War, Josiah Gray arrives in the small town of Walesville. Establishing himself as a preacher, he delivers the word of God with a bible in one hand and a six-shooter in the other- and he will use either one to properly civilize this lawless town!
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way, and in the end the unscrupulous citizen who dominates the town repents.
18) My favorite year
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1954, the era of live TV, a hapless production assistant is given the task of keeping his alcoholic film idol out of trouble long enough to appear on the King Kaiser Hour.
19) Hit the deck
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other guys try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land in the brig. But Danny's father is a Rear Admiral ...
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