Jennifer Fox
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English
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Poetry can lift our spirits and inspire our daily lives. William Blake's "The Tyger," Emily Dickinson's "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers," William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," and John Keats's "A Thing of Beauty" (from Endymion) are among the classic poems collected in this pocket-sized edition. Now you can readily spend a few moments each day with these timeless verses because Pocket Posh 100 Classic Poems fits easily into any size...
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English
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On what otherwise seemed to be an ordinary spring night in 1994, Jennifer Foster, a young, struggling, single mother receives an unexpected phone call. What she learns is anything but ordinary. There has been an unusual accident and the details are unclear, however she learns that her younger brother, a popular, high school football star, scheduled to graduate from high school in six weeks has been involved. When she arrives at the hospital, the scene...
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English
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Find a hundred ways to say "I love you" with a heartwarming collection featuring poets from Shakespeare to Shelley.
"If ever two were one, then surely we." -Anne Bradstreet
Shakespeare's sonnets; the elegant words of Robert Browning; the poignant works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning; the stirring poetry of Christina Rossetti-all are collected here in this celebration of romantic passion and deep abiding love.
Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo...
4) Pizza power
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What makes the Teen Titans so funny and awesome? Pizza!
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Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A funny, quirky picture book based on a little-known historical event -- and an introduction to one of history's most notable figures, Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte's most crushing defeat is widely thought to have been at the Battle of Waterloo -- but have you heard about that time he was defeated by a horde of cute, fluffy bunnies? We call it Bunnyloo. It was the summer of 1807, after Napoleon and Tsar Alexander of Russia signed a treaty...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"As World War I swept Europe, young Americans prepared to join the cause ... well, half of them did. Women were supposed to stay prim and proper at home. But Adeline and Augusta -- ahem, Addie and Gussie -- Van Buren had been taught to skate, swim, and even box. They knew women could do much more than sit around in petticoats. The sisters decided to prove this by writing strongly worded letters. No, no, of course not, Addie and Gussie were fighters!...
9) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
10) The tale
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Tale is a fictional narrative starring Laura Dern as the adult documentary filmmaker, Jennifer Fox, and Isabele Nelisse as her 13-year-old self. -- filmmakermagazine.com
A groundbreaking film memoir, based on the filmmaker's own personal experiences, this HBO Films presentation tells the story of Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern), a globetrotting documentarian and professor living an apparently enviable life with her boyfriend (Common) in NYC. That world...
11) Duplicity
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Ex-CIA officer Claire Stenwick and ex-MI6 agent Ray Koval are both racing to secure the formula for a product that will bring untold wealth to the company that lands the patent first. As the stakes begin to rise, so does the passion between Claire and Ray. Meanwhile, their mutual employers, industry giant Howerd Tully and trailblazing CEO Dick Garsil start resorting to some seriously underhanded tactics as each hopes to gain an advantage over the...
12) Nightcrawler
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling, where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are...
13) Michael Clayton
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of the law firm Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Burned out with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder...
14) The informant!
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.
15) The last duel
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the wife of knight Jean de Carrouge accuses his squire of assaulting her virtue, King Charles VI declares that the men must fight to the death, leaving the truth to be revealed by God who will let the guilty man perish. This arrangement will leave the woman either berieved or besmirched, her life and position in society ruined no matter the result.
17) My Reincarnation
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Language
English
Description
Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox (Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman), My Reincarnation chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi.