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"For more than half a century, a shared love of canals and narrow boats has been inseparable from the marriage of Timothy West and Prunella Scales. The two iconic actors have spent many of the happiest days of their life together enjoying the calming pleasures of watching land and nature unfold before them at four miles an hour.In 2014, Tim and Pru took to the canals of Britain and beyond with a television crew and a brief to record their best-loved...
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Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, 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
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3) We the kings
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On the run from his revengeful actions, a teenager in hiding finds himself in more trouble than he anticipated.
4) Rebecca
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"Set across 1930s Monaco and England the tale of romance, suspense and jealousy [features] the rich and handsome Max de Winter and his new, young bride. When the newlyweds return home to Manderley, Maxim's magnificent and ancient Cornwall estate, the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, threatens the new bride. As she begins to uncover the darkness of the past, she is unsettled by the hostility of Mrs. Danvers, the sinister head housekeeper who is devoted...
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Sinbad, a daring and notorious rogue, has spent his life sailing the seven seas asking for trouble. Now he has been framed for stealing a priceless and powerful treasure - the Book of Peace. Sinbad has one chance to find, then return the precious book, and battle the Goddess of Chaos or his best friend Proteus will die.
6) King Lear
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Based on the 1997 Royal National Theatre production, widely considered the finest staging of King Lear in the past decade, Ian Holm 'touches greatness' (N.Y. Times) in Shakespeare's most sublime and difficult role.
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In the first century A.D., Flavius Silva, commander of the Roman Tenth Legion in Palestine, leads his forces in combat against the remaining Jewish Zealots who have taken refuge in the seemingly impregnable fortress of Masada. There, the engineering and military might of Rome faces the passion and ingenuity of Eleazer ben Yair and his people.
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Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the files of more cold cases. A spectral leader calling himself 'The Shepherd' is inciting vulnerable women to commit murder; a sadomasochistic killer is counting off his victims, leaving the word 'sorry' carved into their skin; and the discovery of an unexploded bomb threatens to bring unforeseen upheaval to the team.
12) Hiroshima
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The story of the final months of World War II, protraying the events that led to the decision which would change the course of human destiny.
13) Martin Luther
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Martin Luther nailed his treatise to the doors of the Wittenberg Cathedral and forever changed the Christian world. This previously obscure German monk unleashed forces that would plunge Europe into war and chaos. He offered the Christian world a new vision of man's relationship with God and, in turn, redefined man's relationship with authority in general, bringing the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
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"In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth of the uttermost evil, unseen in this story but ruling over a vast military power from his fortress of Angband. Deeply opposed to Morgoth is Ulmo, second in might only to Manwe, chief of the Valar: he is called the Lord of Waters, of all seas, lakes, and rivers under the sky. But he works in secret in Middle-earth to support the Noldor, the kindred of...
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"Florence, Italy, 1912. Lucy Honeychurch is eager for adventure, but finds herself in a safe haven of English tourists, spinsters and clergymen. More dangerously, she makes the acquaintance of the socialist Mr. Emerson and his son George. Sparks fly between Lucy and George, but Lucy does her best to ignore them. After an astute observer purposefully mistranslates her request for 'the good men' (clergymen) and sends her into the arms of 'a good man,'...
16) Edward the king
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Follows the life and reign of Edward VII, son of Victoria, through the turn of the twentieth century.
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In the tumultuous spring of 1968 a young English woman, Rose, travels from London to the United States to meet a man she knows as Washington Harold. In her suitcase are a polka dot dress and a one-way ticket. In an America recently convulsed by the April assassination of Martin Luther King and subsequent urban riots, they begin a search for the charismatic and elusive Dr. Wheeler-sage, prophet and, possibly, redeemer-who rescued Rose from a dreadful
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Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal elf. Her father, a great elvish lord, in deep opposition to Beren, imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. To show something of the process whereby this legend of Middle-earth evolved over the years, [Christopher Tolkien] has told the story in his father's own words by giving, first, its original form, and then passages in prose and verse from later texts...
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"November 11, 1918, marked the official end of the Great War--and the start of a peace so flawed that it guaranteed a second war of devastating proportions. This outstanding program documents the events of the war's last day, through archival footage, contemporary records, and poignant personal narratives, and traces the war's profound social and political impact on Great Britain. These accounts of death and bitter survival underscore the Pyrrhic...