John Cunningham
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István Szabó is one of Hungary's most celebrated and best-known film directors, and the only Hungarian to have won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, for Mephisto (1981). In a career spanning over five decades Szabó has relentlessly examined the place of the individual in European history, particularly those caught up in the turbulent events of Central Europe and his own native Hungary. His protagonists struggle to find a place for...
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Frank Grimmer did not set out to earn honours on the field of battle nor did he readily choose to go to war. World powers were shifting. The future of nations was deemed dependant on their armies. It was left to the young men to face the gunfire of other young men who could have been friends under the right circumstances and in times of peace. Where Duty Lies tells the story of how a 23-year-old St. Andrews, New Brunswick, man ended up in the quicksand-like...
4) Warhorse
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Michael Allen had watched his father charm his way in and out of so many different kinds of trouble, he'd all but stopped counting. Unctuous, yet honorable, Buford Allen embodied the spirit and passions of the West. But this time something was wrong. Why was his father so set on buying a ranch in Warhorse, Montana of all places? And what was in the tattered suitcase hidden under the hotel bed?
5) Drummer Hoff
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A picture book, from an old folk verse, which tells of the building of a cannon as each soldier brings a part.
8) High noon
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A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. He takes up his badge and guns again, alienating his new bride.
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Historians and inquisitive laymen alike love to ponder the dramatic what-ifs of history. In these never-before-published essays, some of the keenest minds of our time ask the big, tantalizing questions: Where might we be if history had not unfolded the way it did? Why, how, and when was our fortune made real? The answers are surprising, sometimes frightening, and always entertaining. This provocative collection of essays features today's foremost...
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A lifelong dream becomes a nightmare...When his wife Grace and their new sailboat go missing, Nathan Fitzgerald will do anything and everything to get her back.Nathan, a high school football coach in the Florida Keys, is in way over his head. Turning to strangers when authorities are reluctant to help, he begins a frantic international hunt.Buckle up, as Graceless takes you on an exhilarating chase around the Caribbean with twists and turns at every...
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Some family bonds, are timeless…A plane crash in 1976 left a young boy without a father, but 46 years later when Eddie Rains loses his mother, a letter hidden amongst her possessions reveals a secret she'd kept to herself all those years.Driven by hope, Eddie sets out to discover the truth about the man he dearly loved, yet barely knew. Aided by strangers he meets along the way, his challenging search turns deadly when one thing becomes crystal...
20) High noon
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Just-married lawman Will Kane is about to retire as a small-town sheriff and begin a new life with his bride when he learns that gunslinger Frank Miller is due to arrive at high noon to settle an old score. Kane seeks assistance from deputies and townsfolk but soon realizes he'll have to stand alone in his showdown with Miller and his henchmen.