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Author
Publisher
Level 4 Press, Inc. / Independent Publishers Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The extraordinary career and devastating life of T.S. Eliot. Eliot is a hollow man trapped in a dreary world. Working at the bank, a slave to the clock, the same routine, day after day. While London's elite enjoy a Great Gatsby lifestyle and poets like Robert Frost are rock stars, attracting thousands of fans to each reading, T.S. Eliot walks past life, peering at it through cracks or around corners. A world in color only in his stark imagination....
2) Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A historical novel recounts the events of Lincoln's presidency after his arrival in Washington, D.C. in 1861.
5) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Language
English
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In Edmond Rostand's beloved 1897 stage play "Cyrano De Bergerac", the titular soldier-poet is hopelessly in love with Roxane, the most beautiful woman in all of Paris. Believing he has no chance with her because of his extremely large nose, he agrees to write love letters on behalf of the slow-witted Christian, who also pines for Roxane. Rostand's work is a fictionalization of the real life novelist Cyrano De Bergerac, who in addition to being a novelist...
7) Baby Jane
Author
Language
English
Description
In the heart of Fort Bragg's formidable Sicily Drop Zone, a chance encounter changes the course of Sergeant Craig Donnelly's life forever. Amidst the rugged terrain of military life, Craig discovers an abandoned infant, barely hours old, left to navigate the world alone. This chance discovery sets off a chain of events that will test Craig's resolve and redefine his purpose.
As a paratrooper in the esteemed 82nd Airborne, Craig is no stranger to...
8) Gandhi
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
2001, c1982
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Gandhi's adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Language
English
Description
"Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt;...
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Language
English
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Polyamorous Love Song, a novel of intertwined narratives concerning the relationship between artists and the world. Shot through with unexpected moments of sex and violence, readers will become acquainted with a world that is at once the same and opposite from the one, in which they live. With a diverse palette of vivid characters, from people who wear furry mascot costumes at all times, to a group of 'New Filmmakers' that devises increasingly unexpected...
11) Victoria Falls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Monroe is a sophisticated American professional on mission for The World Bank in Africa during the early 1990's. Despite his worldiness, his actions betray a late twentieth century innocent abroad who embodies both the bravado and the debilitating insecurities of the modern American male. Set in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Bombay, India, Mr. Monroe's journey into authenticity results in a series of failed relationships that reveal the dark, enigmatic...
12) Sludge Utopia
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Language
English
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Description
In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism.
Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard - one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays - from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright has...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
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Language
English
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"In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she...
18) Tarántula
Author
Language
Español
Description
La ópera prima del último premio Nobel y uno de los artistas más influyentes de nuestros días.
"Tarántula" es una suerte de lectura iniciática imprescindible para comprender el imaginario dylaniano que puebla sus canciones desde "Bringing It All Back Home","Highway 61 Revisited" y "Blonde on Blonde".
Los textos en verso y en prosa que conforman esta aproximación a la escritura automática no están exentos de la musicalidad propia de las...
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Language
English
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Departing a tumultuous endeavor!
Having an instance of perpetually attempting to lay to rest an unfair saga. Yet as circumstance allow he was not sure it may come to pass!
John Henry Dam, a truck driver that is living a dream. You might say, I am a professional tourist and love every minute of it!
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