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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Mark Salisbury

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd . Depp stars as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, joined by Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies... The cast also includes Alan Rickman,Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen. Produced in close co-operation with Tim... (more)

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (Laurel-Leaf Books)

by Wendy Loggia

A prince in search of a princess, a domineering baroness and her two daughters, and an orphaned servant girl who sleeps in the ashes by the fireplace.... By the time Danielle is eight years old, her mother and father have died and she has been left in the care of her new stepmother, the Baroness Rodmilla of Ghent. Twelve years later, the baroness and her two daughters have made Danielle their servant, giving her... (more)

Good Will Hunting: A Screenplay

by Matt Damon, Gus Van Sant

As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay Good Will Hunting, the two young actors somewhat resemble the characters they play in the film: they're best friends, and Affleck (who plays Chuckie) habitually chauffeurs Damon (Will), who doesn't drive. Van Sant says we can see how badly Damon drives by watching the film's last scene, in which he is actually... (more)

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy

The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set.

Sideways

by Rex Pickett

Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has... (more)

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

by Antonia Fraser

France’s beleaguered queen, Marie Antoinette, wrongly accused of uttering the infamous “Let them eat cake,” was the subject of ridicule and curiosity even before her death; she has since been the object of debate and speculation and the fascination so often accorded tragic figures in history. Married in mere girlhood, this essentially lighthearted, privileged, but otherwise unremarkable child was thrust into an... (more)

The LAST PICTURE SHOW : A Novel

by Larry McMurtry

The Last Picture Show is one of Larry McMurtry's most powerful, memorable novels -- the basis for the enormously popular movie of the same name. Set in a small, dusty, Texas town, The Last Picture Show introduced the characters of Jacy, Duane, and Sonny: teenagers stumbling toward adulthood, discovering the beguiling mysteries of sex and the even more baffling mysteries of love. Populated by a wonderful cast of... (more)

Octopussy and The Living Daylights

by Ian Fleming

Whether it is tracking down a wayward major who has taken a deadly secret with him to the Caribbean or identifying a top Russian agent secretly bidding for a Fabergé egg in a Sotheby’s auction room, Bond always closes the case—with extreme prejudice. This new Penguin edition comprises four stories, including Fleming’s little-known story "007 in New York," showcasing Bond’s taste for Manhattan’s special... (more)

Live and Let Die (James Bond Novels)

by Ian Fleming

Live and Let Die is the second documented mission of James Bond, secret agent 007. This breath-taking hunt for secret treasure takes Bond to Harlem, Florida and Jamaica and brings him to Mr Big, a SMERSH operative and criminal mastermind who holds the dazzling fortune-teller Solitaire in his deathly grip. In Ian Fleming's second Bond novel, agent 007 faces his most dangerous enemy yet, and faces hazards no reader... (more)

Goldfinger

by Ian Fleming

Auric Goldfinger, the most phenomenal criminal Bond has ever faced, is an evil genius who likes his cash in gold bars. This powerful villain is planning the biggest and most daring heist in history-robbing all the gold in Fort Knox.

The Spy Who Loved Me

by Ian Fleming, John Henry Fleming

See James Bond through the eyes of his lover, Vivienne Michel, in the tenth of Fleming's Bond adventures. Vivienne is running, from her past and from the evil brothers Sol Horror and Sluggsy Morant, and when 007 arrives at the Dreamy Pines Motor Court, in the north of New York State, he is her only hope.

Ordinary People

by Judith Guest

Describes a youth's breakdown and recovery and how it affects his family.

Hombre

by Elmore Leonard

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him -- until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell's guns and his ability to lead them out of the desert. He can't ride with them, but they must walk with him or die.

The Road Home

by Jim Harrison

The Road Home lies in the shadows of Manifest Destiny and Wounded Knee; it is etched into the landscape of an old man's memory and into the stubborn dreams of a young man's heart. In Jim Harrison's latest masterpiece, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the expanses of the Nebraska plains. They strive to understand their fates, reconcile with demons of the past, love... (more)

Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time

by Doris Pilkington

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, award-wining author Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement.... (more)

The French Lieutenant's Woman

by John Fowles

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld

by Herbert Asbury

Published to coincide with the release of Martin Scorsese's film, Gangs of New York, starring Leonard DiCaprio, The Gangs of New York has long been hand-passed among its cult readership. It is a tour through a now unrecognizable city of abysmal poverty and habitual violence cobbled, as Luc Sante has written, from legend, memory, police records, the self-aggrandizements of aging crooks, popular journalism, and... (more)

The Pianist

The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

by Wladyslaw Szpilman

The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Jewish pianist who survives the German invasion of Poland, the Warsaw ghetto and the ultimate destruction of the city.

Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics (Paperback))

Elmer Gantry (Signet Classics (Paperback))

by Sinclair Lewis

The portrait of an evangelist who rises to power within his church.

The Horse Whisperer

by Nicholas Evans

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path. In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered. And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain. It is an odyssey that will bring her to... The Horse Whisperer He is the stuff of legend. His voice can calm wild horses and his touch heal broken... (more)

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The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945

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by Sinclair Lewis

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