Kenneth Branagh
1) Beginning
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Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Irish actor, writer, producer, and director and founder of the Renaissance Theatre Company.
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English
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Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
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English
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"Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again--p. 4 cover.
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James Bond 007 ; 13
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English
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Description
A brainwashed James Bond has tried and failed to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond has to prove he is back on form and can be trusted again. All 007 has to do is kill one of the most deadly freelance hit men in the world: Paco "Pistols" Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun. But despite his license to kill, 007 is no assassin, and on finding Scaramanga in the sultry heat of Jamaica, he decides to infiltrate the killers criminal cooperative and realizes...
10) Oppenheimer
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English
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Description
"Oppenheimer thrusts audiences into the mind of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, whose landmark work on the Manhattan Project created the first atomic bomb"--
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English
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"Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre...
13) King Richard III
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Series
Language
English
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Villainy and Treachery-- Richard III tells of the story of how Richard steals the kingdom from his young nephew after the death of his brother Edward. There is much murder and treachery until Richmond leads a revolt against Richard. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
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English
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Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancé...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Take a glimpse at the toxic mind of Joesph Goebbels, Hitler's henchman who was an enigmatic genius. The filmmakers allow Joesph to speak for himself (in the voice of Kenneth Branagh) via the extensive diaries that he kept from 1924-1945.
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Publisher
ACC Art Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Orient Express, the first train to connect Europe and the gateway to the East and the incarnation of all the desires and fantasies associated with it, was an immediate success. Quickly becoming known as 'the king of trains, the train of kings,' it became a legend in its own lifetime. Thirty years after its final journey, Orient Express opens up previously unpublished archives and the doors to the restoration workshops, where the hsitoric carriages,...
18) Dunkirk
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Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold." --
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English
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Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. This year at Hogwarts, spiders talk, letters scold and Harry's own unsettling ability to speak to snakes turns his friends against him. From dueling clubs to rogue Bludgers, it's a year of adventure and danger when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. To...
