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Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1946.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The great Basil Rathbone plays the world's most iconic detective in this thrilling mystery. Sherlock Holmes and and Dr. Watson hunt for three music boxes containing directions to the whereabouts of six valuable engraving plates stolen from the Bank of England.. Along the way, they find themselves in competition with professional thieves also out to find the clues, which were hidden by a spiteful jailbird before the music boxes went up for auction....
22) D.O.A
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1949.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his assistant and girlfriend, Paula (Pamela Britton), begins to trace back over his last steps.. As he frantically tries to unravel the mystery behind his own impending demise, his sleuthing leads him to a group of crooked...
23) The Blue Hotel
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
1977.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Directed by Oscar-winner Jan Kadar THE BLUE HOTEL is an adaptation of the classic short story by Stephen Crane, now considered one of the most innovative American writers.. Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But a naive Swedish immigrant is living the quintessential western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about The West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions...
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1955.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this classic Oscar-nominated drama, illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) gets out of prison and decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer, small-time con man Schwiefka (Robert Strauss), and Frankie's old drug dealer, Louis (Darren McGavin), re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Child of the Dawn is a tale about the afterlife and personal immortality of the human soul. The story is told from the perspective of a first-person narrator who experiences what mortals call the Death. He is joined by the presence of something or somebody he names Amroth, who proceeds to lead him through the afterlife, introducing him to great mysteries that wait ahead.
Publisher
Monterey Media, Inc
Pub. Date
1960.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the...
27) Career
Publisher
DEFA Film Library
Pub. Date
1970.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After officials banned The Russians Are Coming, Heiner Carow decided to use footage from the banned film as flashbacks in a new film. A few years after its release, however, the director vehemently distanced himself from its conformity to the party line.. Günter Walcher is an average, apolitical, working-class West German citizen caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to division head—on the condition that he finds a reason for Zacharias,...
28) The Scenic Route
Publisher
Mark Rappaport
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand opera, classical painting, and Victorian melodrama.. Winner of the Sutherland Trophy at the British Film Institute Awards.
30) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends, and suffers from the cruelty and greed of his human masters. Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and kindness -- and then a chance encounter with an old friend brings him the greatest joy of all. Anna Sewell's classic...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
When her father leaves and mother becomes ill, a girl is sent to live with a distant relative where she learns some hard life lessons. The girl encounters both good and bad people, but maintains her Christian values.
Ellen Montgomery's life drastically changes when she's forced to move in with her estranged Aunt Fortune. The environment is cold and oppressive, a stark comparison to her mother's comforting home. Despite the changes, Ellen explores...
33) Old cars
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
24 pages. 23 x 28
Language
English
Description
"Simple text and color photographs describe nine old cars"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The Uncalled (1898) is a novel by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published while Dunbar was at the height of his career as one of the nation's leading black poets, The Uncalled marked his debut as a novelist with a powerful vision of faith and perseverance who sought to capture and examine the diversity of the African American experience. When his mother dies, Freddie Brent-whose father is presumed dead-is officially orphaned. Although...
Author
Series
Lord of the rings volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frodo and his companions have been beset by danger during the quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord, Gandalf has been lost in the Mines of Moria, and now they journey down the great River Anduin toward the Cracks of Doom.
37) Crome Yellow
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crome Yellow (1921) is a novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Inspired by his stay at Garsington Manor with members of the Bloomsbury Group, Crome Yellow, Huxley's debut novel, satirizes the society of England's intellectual and political elite. In addition to its autobiographical content, the novel investigates such themes as spirituality, the nature and composition of art, and the fear of a dystopian future.
Invited to spend part of the summer...
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
In first century Judaea, Jewish prince Judah Ben-Hur is betrayed by his childhood friend Messala and sentenced to life as a Roman slave. When, during a pirate attack in the aegean, Ben-Hur saves the life of a galley commander, his fortunes improve and he returns to Galilee a free man. There, his quest for vengeance turns into insurrection, but his life is transformed when he witnesses Christ's baptism by John the Baptist. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ,...
40) The witches
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
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