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One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
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"An electric, locked-room suspense thriller set in the remote Scottish Highlands, where icy temperatures and a terrible blizzard prevent any ideas of escape--from a brilliant new voice in crime fiction. One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day--and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks....
5) Stay hidden
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"A woman has been shot to death by a deer hunter on an island off the coast of Maine. To newly promoted Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch, the case seems open and shut. But as soon as he arrives on remote Maquoit Island he discovers mysteries piling up one on top of the other. The hunter now claims he didn't fire the fatal shot and the evidence proves he's telling the truth. Bowditch begins to suspect the secretive community might be covering up...
6) Jabberwocky
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Criterion collection volume 903
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Criterion Collection
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[2017]
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English
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A witless, bumbling young peasant is mistaken for the man the townspeople are expecting to save the kingdom from a terrible dragon.
8) Being there
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Criterion collection volume 864
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Criterion Collection
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[2017]
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English
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After his employer dies, a feeble-minded gardener whose entire knowledge of life comes from watching television is sent out into the real world.
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"Time slips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies...In 'The Lion at the Gate,' a strange piece of graffiti leads to a terrifying encounter for four school friends. In 'Final Course,' the world has descended into darkness, but a group of old friends make time for one last dinner party. In 'Runaway Blues,' thwarted love, revenge, and something very nasty stowed in a hat box converge. In 'Gloria,' a strange girl at a service station endears herself...
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"1765. Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before. Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake, looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this was not his intended victim. 250 years later ... When...
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Brixton brothers volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
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1st ed.
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English
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When twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective, he must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.
14) The big Lebowski
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Collector's ed.; full screen.
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English
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A stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beat up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife, and this hapless loser gets drawn into a kidnapping.
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Playful brides volume 7
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2017.
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St. Martin's Paperbacks edition.
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English
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"A rumored pirate and the scurrilous black sheep of his well-to- do family, Cade Cavendish relishes his world of rebellion, deception, and seduction. Nothing and no one can hold him to be the duty-bound, honorable man he is expected to be. But when an unexpected run-in at his twin brother's estate with a ravishing, raven-haired maid leads her to believe he's actually a viscount, Cade's renegade life is thrown wildly off-kilter. And even though a case...
17) Kitty
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Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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First edition.
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English
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"When Granny comes to cat-sit, she anticipates a little work, a few snuggles, and a good night's sleep. What she doesn't expect is CHAOS. After Granny misplaces her glasses, she accidentally lets the cat out...and a raccoon in...a raccoon that looks a little like a cat. What follows is a raucous escapade that leaves in its wake one very confused Granny, one very upset cat, and one very satisfied raccoon"--
19) The big Lebowski
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Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Collector's edition, anamorphic widescreen.
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English
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A stoned-out leftover from the 1960s is asked to be the go-between when the wife of a rich man for whom he is mistaken is kidnapped.
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