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Would the real monster please step forward…
Frank's Purpose is very clear to him. He doesn't know whether his wife brings him more joy, or his son; and there's no need to decide. All is right with Frank's world…until everything changes for him.
Maria's Hero is always home from work on time. When he doesn't show, she knows that something is terribly wrong. Her only hope is to keep it together, and try to save what is left of her family.
Carla's...
82) Loss
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Riders of the Apocalypse volume 3
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Jackie Morse Kessler's Riders of the Apocalypse series follows teens who are transformed into the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
The third book in the Riders of the Apocalypse series, Loss, is about a bullied teenager who's tricked into becoming Pestilence, a Rider of the Apocalypse, and finds himself with the power to infect people with diseases.
Fifteen-year-old Billy Ballard is the kid that everyone picks on. But things change
drastically when...
83) Keep Evolving
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When the gods departed, they left behind their WMDs: Weapons of Mass Destruction……Or rather, ATDs: Apocalypses of Total Destruction.Jean-Luc Matthias is a struggling human hotelier who promised to help the wayward mythical creatures adjust to life in this new GoneGod World.It's a promise that just might get him killed.In the past year, his hotel was blown up, his best friend (an alcoholic angel) picked a fight with a myth-hating gang and, oh yeah,...
84) Bangkok Babylon
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In the colorful tradition of Orwell and Hemingway, Maugham and Theroux, Jerry Hopkins recalls his first decade as a Bangkok expatriate by profiling twenty-five of the city's most unforgettable characters. Among them are the man thought to be the model for Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, an advertising executive who photographs Thai bargirls for Playboy, an Oscar-winning screenwriter who moved there to die, a Catholic priest who has lived and worked...
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Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Faulkner. These and other giants of literature are immediately recognizable to anyone who loves to read fiction and even to many who don't. Now, thanks to these 32 lectures, you can develop fresh insight into some of the greatest American authors of the 20th century. Professor Weinstein sheds light not only on the sheer magnificence of these writers' literary achievements but also explores their uniquely American character as...
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Acclaimed media critic J. Hoberman's masterful and majestic exploration of the Reagan years as seen through the unforgettable movies of the era The third book in a brilliant and ambitious trilogy, celebrated cultural and film critic.
J. Hoberman's Make My Day is a major new work of film and pop culture history. In it he chronicles the Reagan years, from the waning days of the Watergate scandal when disaster films like Earthquake ruled the box office...
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When the world ends, how do you start over? The woman only needed her family, hope, and the man she's been in love with since she was five years old.
When the man was five, he made a promise to protect the woman at all costs. He didn't expect that to be threatened by the Apocalypse.
Now at eighteen, they've witnessed the slow unraveling of their dreams as nature and men compete to wipe out humanity and annihilate the earth they once adored. The...
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From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies.
In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet-a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns...
89) Welcome Home
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War leaves little of value in its wake. Foremost among its meager gifts is the bond of friendship between men, forged in adversity and tempered by the loss and sting of battle. It is ironic that the worst of man's endeavors should yield one of humanity's purest products.
Over 2.7 million men and women served in Viet Nam. For most of them, service in that conflict was a bittersweet experience. They have fond memories of the strong bonds of friendship...
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Whispering Dark volume 1
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At war with Russia, United States Special Forces confront a supernatural horror in this military thriller from a writer of the video games Battlefield 1 and Star Wars Battlefront II.
Illustrated by the artist of Night of the Living Dead: Aftermath and Garth Ennis' War Stories, this suspenseful graphic novel combines the cosmic terror of H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness with the unflinching gaze of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now,...
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"In this profound work, bestselling author and the former Episcopal Bishop of Newark John Shelby Spong offers a radical new way to look at the gospels today. Pulling back the layers of misunderstanding created over the centuries by Gentile ignorance of things Jewish, he reveals how a literal reading of the Bible is so far removed from the original intent of the Jewish authors of the gospels that it has become an act of heresy. Using the gospel of...
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Une fiche de référence sur Le Tambour, un chef-d'oeuvre de Volker Schlöndorff.
Le Tambour (Die Blechtrommel, 1979) est sa production la plus ambitieuse. Il s'attaque alors à un monument de la littérature allemande contemporaine, écrit par Günter Grass en 1959. Après le succès mondial de ce film qui obtient, en 1979, la palme d'or à Cannes avec Apocalypse Now de Francis Ford Coppola, Schlöndorff poursuit son travail d'adaptation littéraire...
93) The Empty Shield
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A people's history and the horror of war: Howard Zinn meets Apocalypse Now. Political autobiography. March 1972, about to graduate from NYU. A journey: two days and nights in the New York subway. Love it or leave it. A decision: become a Great Academic Marxist; blow up the Williamsburg Bridge; go into exile. Vietnam Veterans with placards, for and against the war. Seven placard-men at the seven gates of Thebes, brandishing their shields. A decision....
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Explores how modernist films use classical music in ways that restore the music's original subversive energy.
Classical music masterworks have long played a key supporting role in the movies-silent films were often accompanied by a pianist or even a full orchestra playing classical or theatrical repertory music-yet the complexity of this role has thus far been underappreciated. Sounds Like Helicopters corrects this oversight through close interpretations...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis!
Au cœur des ténèbres (1902), initialement paru dans le Blackwood's Magazine (1899), est probablement le roman le plus connu de Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), romancier anglais d'origine polonaise souvent présenté comme le représentant majeur d'une « littérature de la mer » qui ne constitue pourtant qu'une partie de son œuvre. C'est aussi son roman le plus controversé : tandis...
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From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies.
In The Fatal Alliance the acclaimed film critic David Thomson offers us one of his most provocative books yet - a rich, arresting, and troubling study of that most beloved genre: the war movie. It is not a standard history or survey of war films, although Thomson turns...
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Dave Kehr's writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr "one of the most gifted film critics in America." James Naremore thought he was "one of the best writers on film the country as a whole has ever produced." But aside from remarkably detailed but brief capsule reviews and top-ten lists, you won't find much of Kehr's...
98) Rock & Cine
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Las películas esenciales del rock en el cine
Este libro estudia cómo ha sido la relación entre el cine y el rock a lo largo de la historia a través de un puñado de buenas películas. Está estructurado de manera muy hábil por Jordi Picatoste, no solo un experto cinematográfico sino también un gran aficionado al rock y a la música popular que ha sabido construir una obra con los mimbres necesarios para ser un más que probable referente del...
99) The Columbia Companion To American History On Film: How The Movies Have Portrayed The American Past
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American history has always been an irresistible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and today, for good or ill, most Americans'sense of the past likely comes more from Hollywood than from the works of historians. In important films such as The Birth of a Nation (1915), Roots (1977), Apocalypse Now (1979), and Saving Private Ryan (1998), how much is entertainment and how much is rooted in historical fact? In The Columbia Companion to American History...
100) 36 Streets
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Altered Carbon and The Wind-Up Girl meet Apocalypse Now in this fast-paced, intelligent, action-driven cyberpunk, probing questions of memory, identity, and the power of narratives.
Lin "The Silent One" Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider.
Through grit and courage Lin has carved...
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