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63) Navajo
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English
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A Navajo boy stoically endures hardship, hunger and the death of his family.
67) Sparrows
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English
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A masterful restoration by The Mary Pickford Foundation and Library of Congress, with a soaring new musical score
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors...
69) Sartor Resartus
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Literally meaning "The tailor re-tailored," "Sartor Resartus" is Thomas Carlyle's 1836 novel which was first serialized in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833-1834. The novel poses as a review for the work "Clothes, Their Origin and Influence" by the fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, Professor of "Things in General" at Weissnichtwo University. Intended by Carlyle as a new kind of book, "Sartor Resartus" is at once a work of fiction and social...
72) Kim
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Kim, an Irish orphan, journeys throughout India and accompanies a holy man on his quest for a mystic river
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A seemingly ordinary man, Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning only to discover that he has been transformed into a gigantic insect and must deal with the depression over his new physical alteration, as well as the rejection of his family, in a new translation honoring the 125th anniversary of the author's birth.
74) The Stunt Man
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English
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Vietnam vet Cameron stumbles on a movie shoot, causing the stunt man's death. Rather than turn Cameron in, director Eli Cross makes him an offer he can't refuse: replace the dead stunt man in return for safe harbor.
77) Edward II
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English
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In this new restoration of the iconic New Queer Cinema classic, Derek Jarman offers a postmodern take on Christopher Marlowes Elizabethan drama.
79) Fanny
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English
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The night before Marius is to leave on a 5 year voyage his childhood friend Fanny reveals that she is in love with him. He must choose between an exciting life at sea and a boring life with the woman he loves.
80) Fallen Angel
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Drifter Eric Danton comes to Walton. He falls for a waitress at the local coffee shop, but she pays him no attention because he is broke. He marries a wealthy spinster only for her money. When the waitress is found dead, Eric becomes the main suspect.
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