Volume 7 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones. He wasn't a loincloth-clad wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a resourceful hunter. This gave him a distinctive...
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Volume 9 of The Adventures of Jungle Jim! The pulp era was full of jungle heroes. Jungle Jim is one of the unique ones. He wasn't a loincloth-clad wild man, but rather Jim Bradley, a resourceful hunter. This gave him a distinctive...
- Author:Levitt, GeneSummary:
Philip Marlow, like other hard-boiled detectives, is unsentimental about the violence he faces - and few could take it or dish it out like Marlow. Behind the snappy come-backs and hard drinking, Marlow was a philosophical and...
- Author:Green, DennisSummary:
Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire.
- Author:Miller, ArthurSummary:
The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will...
- Author:Boucher, Denise, Karan, Myrna DelsonSummary:
Les Divines, produced in 1996, continues an exploration of feminism started in Les Fées ont soif in its portrait of seven daughters who reunite in a ritual wake for an idealized mother.
- Author:Reaney, James, Filewod, AlanSummary:
Based on the true story of an Irish family with seven sons and one daughter immigrating to Biddulph Township near London, Ontario, in 1844, The Donnellys tells the tale of mystery and truths stranger than fiction. It is the story of a...
- Author:Hernandez, CatherineSummary:
From masturbation to motherhood, body shaming to burlesque, Catherine Hernandez reveals the reality of living as a queer woman of colour. Set to the music of her life, The Femme Playlist shows what it's like to be sexy and proud,...
- Author:Bowen, Leah SimoneSummary:
"I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning." In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the disabled, the mentally ill,...
- Author:Coburn, D. L.Summary:
The quiet porch of a rest home for the aged explodes with emotion when prim Fonsia Dorsey sits down to play gin rummy with the cynical Weller Martin. Fonsia is drawn to Weller, but she just can't stop winning at cards, while Weller...
- Author:Roberts, WilliamSummary:
When a young man is found dead near a remote northern California town, police label it an accident or suicide. But journalist Arnold Rednapp learns of suspicious circumstances and suspects a community-wide conspiracy.
- Author:Wilde, OscarSummary:
In Wilde’s masterful farce, two aristocratic young Londoners create a great deal of confusion when they independently fabricate intricate double lives in order to escape oppressive social obligations.
- Author:Durante, JimmySummary:
Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed a career in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs throughout the 1930s and 1940s. After...
- Author:Durante, JimmySummary:
Big-nosed, brash, and boisterous, beloved entertainer Jimmy Durante parlayed his experience in vaudeville, nightclubs, and Broadway shows into a radio career highlighted by many successful programs throughout the 1930s and 1940s. After...
- Author:Durante, JimmySummary:
He butchered the English language. He sang as if he gargled with gravel. He dropped pearls of wisdom disguised as one-liners. And he had a nose that got everywhere ten minutes before he did. All of this and a genuine love for his craft...
- Author:Braem, Meg, Gladstone, AmielSummary:
After Samantha's baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet full of ketchup packets, and a...
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Volume 1 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 2 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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Volume 3 of The Lives of Harry Lime In the film noir classic, Orson Welles played Harry Lime - rogue, scoundrel, and black marketeer in postwar Vienna. At the end of the film, in a spectacular chase through the sewers of the city, Harry...
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International crime. Lushly depicted settings. Shady, interesting characters. And Orson Welles leading the pack as the amoral anti-hero. All of this and more makes The Lives of Harry Lime one of the richest, most intriguing programs...
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