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(0)Charles Fox
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English
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This title was previously published as Uncommon Youth
The true account behind the glamorous life and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973, as seen in Ridley Scott's All the Money in the World and the FX series Trust by Danny Boyle
J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Widescreen ed
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English
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Xixo again collides with the so-called civilized world in Africa when he embarks on a search for his children, who are accidental stowaways on a poacher's truck. He soon crosses paths with two very odd couples lost in the desert. Xixo, perplexed by their strange antics, nevertheless finds himself drawn into a crazy adventure with people who know how to make magic machines, but constantly need to be saved from the wilderness and from each other.
3) Lethbridge
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English
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A love story set against the backdrop of the First World War, the events in Lethbridge unfold in disparate locales, from London to Boston, from Maine to Niagara Falls, from the trenches of wartime France to the military hospitals of England. Yet the lives of its three protagonists come together in one place: the frontier western Canadian city of Lethbridge, Alberta.
Inspired by a true story, Lethbridge author Terry McConnell tells the tale of an...
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A mysterious, injured stranger appears outside Morgan's 5th floor window.
His decision to help her might be the last one he'll ever make.
Morgan's unremarkable life on Bovania is upended when a notorious space pirate holds him hostage in his own home. Against his will, he listens as she explains her plan to meet with a man known only as The Warden.
But the space pirate, Sadie, isn't alone. She's being hunted down, and she just dragged Morgan into...
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English
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What was it like to grow up as an urban urchin under bombs in Nazi Germany? Did he have a real childhood? Did he play pranks on grownups, as young rascals do in normal times? Could he be shielded against Nationalist ideology? In Urchin at War, Uwe Siemon-Netto answers these questions in the affirmative with humour and drama.
The son of a lawyer blinded in World War I, he describes the parallel universe in which his bourgeois family lived in Leipzig....