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Twin Sombreros

Zane Grey - 1940

On the first day of spring, a little girl goes looking for the robin that sang to her every day last summer.

She sees a bee, a yellow forsythia bush, and a tiny toad, but no robin. Then she hears a cheerful song, and she knows the robin is back. Bold, simple paintings complement the briefly told story. Full color.A sequel to Knights of the Range.

Cold Mountain: The Journey from Book to Film

Anthony Minghella - 2003

In the tradition of the Newmarket Moviebooks on Chicago, Frida and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon—the fascinating, full-color companion of the new film from the director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr.

Ripley. Coming from Miramax Films in December 2003, Cold Mountain stars Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Natalie Portman, Giovanni Ribisi and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Directed by Academy Award®-winner Anthony Minghella who also wrote the screenplay, Cold Mountain is based on Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War novel of the same name and tells the story of Inman (Law), a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive her father's farm with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Zellweger).The Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook is annotated with illustrations, movie stills, production design sketches keyed to the screenplay, costume designs, sidebars, and commentary from the cast and crew.

The Official Godzilla Compendium: A 40 Year Retrospective (Official Godzilla)

J.D. Lees - 1998

Beginning with his birth in the heart of a nuclear explosion in the 1954 film "Godzilla: King of the Monsters", this book contains everything readers could ever want to know about Tokyo's favorite monster: movie summaries, entertaining essays that cover all aspects of the last 40 years of Godzilla, and a wealth of color photos and illustrations.

144 pp. Ages 14 and up. Pub: 3/98.

Sense and Sensibility: The Screenplay

Emma Thompson - 2002

Screenplay for the film..

Screenplay for the film.

Abigail's Party & Goose-Pimples

Mike Leigh - 1979

Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic play ‘Abigail’s Party’ focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soirée.

While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Beverly and her estate agent husband, Laurence, entertain their neighbours – Abigail’s mother, Susan, ex-footballer, Tony, and his wife, Angela. But as the alcohol flows, tensions in the hosts’ barely functional marriage emerge and their obsessions, prejudices and petty competitiveness are ruthlessly, and hilariously, exposed. ‘Goose-Pimples’, meanwhile, is easily as sharp and uncompromising. This time, the action focuses on ambitious casino croupier, Jackie, and Saudi businessman, Muhammad, who meet – and misunderstand – one another spectacularly.

The Last Carousel

Nelson Algren - 1973

"Algren at the top of his form." —The New York Times"What an exhilarating experience to read Nelson Algren's new collection of stories!" —The Chicago Sun-Times"It's about time! When we've got a living American writer as surefooted and as fast off the mark as Nelson Algren, it's almost criminal not to have something of his in hard covers at least once a year, to heft and roar at and revel in...

What we have here in this big fat volume is a cockeyed chrestomathy of 37 Algren pieces... with his hallmark stamped on every link." —The New York Times Book Review"The range of the book is satisfying—rich, will titillate even the most fastidious dilettante or culture vulture... also contains pieces that will make you laugh your head off. Once you begin reading it, you will not be able to put it aside." —The Chicago Tribune"Essential Algren." —The Washington Post"Very good, fast, funny and tough... Algren, where have you been hiding?" —The San Francisco ChronicleHere again is Algren's rich output from the 1960s and '70s, tough, streetwise stories and travelogues from around the world: accounts of brothels in Vietnam and Mexico, stories of the boxing ring, and reminiscences of his beloved Chicago White Sox, among other subjects.

The Bucket Rider

Franz Kafka - 2012

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We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough

Mike Young - 2010

What if our feelings were just holograms in expensive greeting cards? Is there anything wrong with being quietly astonished, or are you obliged to turn and tell somebody? If you tell them, will they know? We Are All Good If They Try Hard Enough treats language to breakfast, fiddles over language's doomed project of intimacy with sweetness and red eyes.

From maple ice cream to Z-shaped fire escapes, these poems carry a flashlight you'll want to follow: unexpected as night swimming, entertaining as a music video in sign language.

Cattle Brands A Collection of Western Camp-fire Stories

Andy Adams - 1906

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers.

You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Charles Dickens

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Nicolas Tredell - 1999

In this Readers' Guide, Nicolas Tredell introduces and sets in context the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response.

The extracts and essays included here examine Great Expectations in structural, symbolic, political, psychological, social and sexual terms, relating it to its own time and to a range of 20th century critical and theoretical perspectives. Exploring secondary sources from the first reviews in the 1860s to the most up-to-date critiques of the 1990s, the Guide is an essential resource for the study of one of Dickens's most complex novels.

Agnes Browne Trilogy Boxed Set: The Mammy, The Chisellers, The Granny

Brendan O'Carroll - 2001

The Agnes Browne Trilogy includes: * The Mammy * The Chisellers * The Granny.

The Agnes Browne Trilogy includes: * The Mammy * The Chisellers * The Granny

The White Album

Joan Didion - 1979

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s.Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it.

Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

I Wake Up Screaming

Steve Fisher - 1941

The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s."She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely. Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eyeshadow on her eyelids. You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing."With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake and I, Mobster..

The classic novel of sexual obsession and murder amid the star-making machinery of Hollywood in the 1950s."She was as white as marble, but she looked lovely. Her hair was splayed out in fine strands of gold, and her lips were bright, rich red, and there was a green eyeshadow on her eyelids. You could see that because her eyes were closed and she was lying very still. She was lying still and she wasn't breathing."With its portraits of washed-up directors, jaded leading men, and a ruthless cop whose one-track mind leads straight to a cyanide pellet, I Wake Up Screaming is a magnificent thriller by a Hollywood insider whose screenplays included Lady in the Lake and I, Mobster.