20th Century | 20th Century
Jun.18.2012
World of Mirrors is set on an island off the Baltic coast in the former DDR, and the year is 1990, the “time of the turn.” The Berlin wall has crumbled, but Germany is not yet reunified. Against the seductive decadence of an old resort with its classic sailboats, nude beaches and...
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Feb.09.2012
LOVE ABOARD THE TITANIC & BILLY THE KID'S WIFE (Timeless Romance Shorts) are two heartwarming love stories that transcend time and place by bestselling novelist R. Barri Flowers.
"Love Aboard the Titanic" is a 5,000-word tale about an ill-fated historical romance aboard the Titanic. After...
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Oct.01.2011
In his book, “A Prayer for the Departed: Tales of a Family through the Decades of the Last Century” (ISBN 1461138930), Bill Broder honors the elders of his family through a series of short stories. As the youngest son, he acts as witness to the lives of his parents, his uncles and his aunts – lives...
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Apr.20.2011
Collected poems of the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, Translated by Czeslaw Milosz, Peter Dale Scott and Alissa Valles
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Dec.27.2010
“The Red Tent” meets “A Thousand Splendid Suns.”
In 1911, in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem under the backward Ottoman rule, a young woman sets out to challenge God.
The feisty Esther’s life-long struggle between her passions and her strict society’s religious dictates sends her to secretly...
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Oct.09.2010
In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described. Throughout the city of San Francisco, however, many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still...
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Sep.05.2010
In our age of Netflix and streaming videos, movie attendance continues its long decline, and cinema-going is becoming ever less of the collective experience Walter Benjamin so memorably described. Throughout the city of San Francisco, however, many theaters built between 1910 and 1950 are still...
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Jan.29.2010
H.G. Wells chases Jack the Ripper through time.... This novel was the basis for the classic film starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. It has been rewritten and released in a trade edition.
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Oct.28.2009
SOME OF HISTORY'S BEST KEPT SECRETS ARE BURIED DEEP WITHIN...AMERICA'S FILM VAULT.
AMERICA'S FILM VAULT: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives is the comprehensive new book by award-winning author and film-sleuth Phillip W. Stewart. This essential reference...
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Oct.18.2009
When Sara’s niece, Janice, is notified that her sharp-witted aunt, now in her 80s, hasn’t been seen for several days, Janice’s panicky drive to find out what’s happened begins our journey of discovering that Sara has led a life very different from what her relatives and friends assume. Historical...
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