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The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' most visionary novels. It recounts the harrowing ordeal of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rescued by a man named Montgomery, Prendick finds himself on an island belonging to Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London who was expelled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments....
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Pub. Date:
2012
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640L
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English
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Curtis' mother doesn't come home after her all-night shift at the gas bar and for a time he manages on his own, looking after himself and his five-year-old brother. The credit card maxes out, and the landlord starts demanding the rent. The boys make friends with Mrs. Burt who takes them to her remote cabin by a lake, but as summer turns to fall, Mrs. Burt seems to be prepared to spend winter in the cabin.
Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
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The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
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Stephanie Sparks
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Jamie Riley had always suspected that something was wrong with her stepfather. Burt Valentine wasn't just a man on the hunt for the perfect life - he was a fugitive family annihilator who murdered his own wife and children. After Jamie escapes his violent attack, she learns years later that Burt had infiltrated and destroyed other families too, leaving a trail of physically and emotionally broken stepchildren. As adults, Jamie and the other survivors...
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Publisher:
Mushroom eBooks
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
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Never before in his adventurous career under the double suns of Antares had Dray Prescot been in as desperate a situation as he finds himself on his second entry into the city of Magdag. Magdag was the scene of one of Prescot's earliest experiences on Kregen and he recalled it with loathing as a city of power-lusting slavers, of decadent worshippers of the Green Sun. As one who had been initiated into the chivalric order of Krozairs, he despised all...
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Publisher:
Globe Pequot
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Jackie Robinson famously said that a life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives. As we celebrate Robinson's 100th birthday in January 2019, Stealing Home profiles nine figures whose lives were altered by the "great experiment," as the integration of baseball was called then. Profiled here are Rachel Robinson, the stoic but thoughtful wife; Branch Rickey, the mercurial but far-sighted manager/owner of the Dodgers; Baseball Commissioner...
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Workman Kids
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Poems to Turn to Again and Again - from Amanda Gorman, Sharon Olds, Kate Baer, and More Created and compiled just for young women, You Don't Have to Be Everything is filled with works by a wide range of poets who are honest, unafraid, and skilled at addressing the complex feelings of coming-of-age, from loneliness to joy, longing to solace, attitude to humor. These unintimidating poems offer girls a message of self-acceptance and strength, giving...
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English
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When a wily, witty, lying, lazy, cheating slave discovers that his master's son is in love with the girl next door, a virgin courtesan, he promises to help win her heart in exchange for his freedom. But the road to romance is blocked with stunning surprises, cunning disguises and the wildest chariot race ever!
Publisher:
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
English
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Babe has just shot her husband. Lenny worries that men will no longer find her attractive, and Meg returns from Hollywood after a nervous breakdown. The three eccentric sisters reunite, and their initial joy dissolves into a series of squabbles and arguments. But they pull together and support each other, through their exasperating succession of mistakes and misfortunes.
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Publisher:
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2006
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Two meat salesmen find themselves in a terrible slump. With one last chance to make good or get fired, the partners head out to close a perfect prospect but wind up in the middle of a big beef between desperate mobsters, ruthless killers and a sultry seductress. Now, either they find a way to get out of this mess alive and hopefully make a killer sale in the process, or they're dead meat!
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Publisher:
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
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When Clouseau's plane is reported missing, his clumsy, long-suffering nemesis Dreyfus has an odd way of grieving him: he simply can't stop laughing! But when a reporter attempts to memorialize the crime-fighting hero, Dreyfus suddenly finds himself in the spotlight. Can he learn to say something charitable about Clouseau? Can he do it with a straight face… or will he simply fall flat on his face? An uproariously funny and joyously affectionate tribute...
Publisher:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
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Rocky: Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere. But when a stroke of fate puts him in the ring with the World Heavyweight Champion, Rocky knows that it's his one shot at the big time - a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go the distance and come out a winner.
Rocky II: It's the rematch of the century as Rocky Balboa takes on Apollo Creed in this powerful follow-up to one of the most acclaimed movies in film history....
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Publisher:
Mushroom eBooks
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
Description:
Kregen, that grim and beautiful, marvelous and terrible world four hundred light-years away beneath the red and green fires of Antares is a world too rich in passion and action to allow a fighting man like Dray Prescot to rest for long. Once more, then, he is launched into fresh adventures, but this time there is a hiatus which might easily break a man of lesser fire and The Tides of Kregen: Of all the honours that Dray Prescot, Earthman, has won...