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Bison frontiers of imagination Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 613 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 73 Criterion collection ; 908 Mini masters New York Review Books classics Penguin classics Unabridged classics Wade Williams collection (Image Entertainment (Firm)) Widescreen DVD collectionSummary: "Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town (Viviane Romance). [He] discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him, and is framed for the murder. Based on a novel by Georges Simenon, Julien Duvivier's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
Summary: Set in 1919 but based on a real incident from 1906. A coal mine collapses on the frontier between Germany and France, trapping a team of French miners inside. Workers on both sides of the border spring into action, putting aside national prejudices and wartime grudges to launch a dangerous rescue operation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
Merberg, Julie.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Georges Seurat, rhyming text describes a variety of activities that fill one day, beginning at the shore and ending with a night at the circus.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2005
Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Summary: "A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement--2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Giant 1987
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Summary: A scientist who has discovered how to make his body invisible, becomes violently insane when he realizes he cannot change back to visible form.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2003
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Contents: The time machine.--The island of Dr. Moreau.--The invisible man.--The war of the worlds.--The first men in the moon.--The food of the gods.--In the days of the comet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books : distributed by Crown Publishers 1978
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1996
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Summary: An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1964
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the heir to his fortune.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1984
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2001
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, from 1895, popularized the idea of a vehicle that allows its user to travel intentionally and selectively across time, and indeed Wells is credited with coining the very term "time machine." The Time Traveler of this novella tests his time machine with a leap forward to the year 802,701 A.D., to find that evolution has produced two very different post-human races...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2013
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: An intellectually superior race from Mars invades Earth with plans to take over the planet.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: Twenty-one-year-old Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life, and when her father forbids her from attending a fashionable ball, she decides to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1909
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Summary: The English village of Bramblehurst is intimidated by a mysterious stranger whose face is completely wrapped in bandages.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1992
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Summary: A chilling story of the invasion of Earth by Martians. Mass evacuation begins in panic as nations unite in an effort to repel the aliens.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
Summary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004