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Loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited", The Last Time I Saw Paris tells the story of American Charles Wills (Van Johnson) who returns to Paris and reminisces about his life there after its liberation following WWII. It was then he met Marion (Donna Reid) and also Helen (Elizabeth Taylor), whom he married. Following a tragedy, Charles left Paris but now back, does not know what the future may hold. Director Richard Brooks went on...
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On summer vacation Harris Vane gives Julie Tennant her first kiss but that night he takes Meg to the beach party. Although Harris has his arm around Meg, he stares at Julie through the bonfire flames and suddenly asks Julie to sit with him. He then recounts the legend of his Great Aunt Veronica who drowned at the beach sixty years ago. One evening while Julie and her friends are swimming, she sees the ghosts of her Grandmother and Veronica Vane. Although...
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A Birthday Card in Book Form! Features nearly 90 witty and inspirational quotations, and a page for inscribing your personal birthday message.
Only Elizabeth Taylor could walk in Cleopatra's shoes. Only she could play A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And only she could get Hollywood to pay her a million bucks per picture. In her, we see why Diva comes from the word Divine. As her good friend and fashion designer Vicky Tiel said: "She was not a movie star,...
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Jazz Baker is just itching for an adventure. If she can't find one she will dream one up and make sure that her little sister, Lizanne and friends Sarah and Badger Marsky are included.A few years ago the kids had discovered a secret cove near their hometown of Luna Beach, California. Every year Basil, a giant turtle that befriended the children, returns to the cove for a few days. The kids play games on pink sand and turquoise water while they wait...
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Una lluviosa tarde de domingo, poco después de haber enviudado, Laura Palfrey llega al Claremont para iniciar una nueva vida. En el hotel la esperan cuatro huéspedes permanentes, días ordenados en torno a las rutinas de las comidas y los programas de televisión. Solo modifica el tedio la visita esporádica de algunos familiares. Pero nadie va a ver a Laura. Cuando de pronto conoce en la calle a Ludo, un joven a quien desvela el deseo de ser escritor,...
6) Camp Forrest
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Camp Forrest was a training, induction, and combatant prisoner-of-war (POW) facility located on the outskirts of Tullahoma, Tennessee. It was a self-sustaining city where over 70,000 soldiers were stationed and approximately 12,000 civilians were employed throughout World War II. In 1942, the camp transitioned to an enemy alien internment camp and was one of the first civilian internment camps in the United States. By the middle of 1943, it had transitioned...
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The Battle of amfAR presents the little-known story of how in the early days of the AIDS pandemic an unlikely alliance between a celebrity and a scientist helped changed the public perception of the disease and led to the search for a cure. Hollywood superstar Elizabeth Taylor and Sloan-Kettering research scientist Dr. Mathilde Krim joined forces to create greater AIDS awareness, fight government indifference and public stigma, and establish amFAR,...
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For more than 60 years, Elizabeth Taylor's dazzling beauty and scandalous life captured our fascination, provoked our envy, teased our curiosity and, at times aroused our pity. She was American royalty and the undisputed queen of the tabloids. See her life unfold from her first film through her last marriage and hear her thoughts on being a star, marriage and being what Hollywood tried to make her.
11) Night Watch
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While rich widow Ellen Wheeler (Elizabeth Taylor) is staring out the window one evening, she believes she's witnessed a murder. The only problem is, does anybody else believe her, or is it just another manifestation of her recent nervous breakdown?
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She was once a beautiful screen idol who fled Hollywood after a film premiere for fear that she had lost her allure. He was once a local golden boy who, through missed opportunities, found himself a cabana boy. This powerful production of the Tennessee Williams play incorporates the intense drama and steamy lust of two people determined to use each other to achieve their goals.
13) Elephant Walk
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One man claimed the land. Two men claimed the woman who lived there. Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Finch, and Dana Andrews star in this action-packed drama set in Ceylon. Taylor plays a newlywed who accompanies Finch to his sprawling tea plantation called Elephant Walk...and falls for overseer Andrews. But this love triangle is soon dwarfed by other events. A cholera epidemic breaks out, drought blights the land and herds of thirst-maddened elephants...
14) Angel
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The story of an eccentric, talented girl of fifteen who escapes from the dreariness of provincial life and becomes a writer of extravagant, fantastic romantic stories.
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"[C]hronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Eraembodied in the experiences of an influential figure of the time, academic, entrepreneur, and political activist and black history pioneer Daniel Murray" -- provided by publisher.
"In the wake of the Civil War, Daniel Murray, born free and educated in Baltimore,...
17) Formula 9
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Life is the grand experience. It is a gift. Formula 9 is here to help you make the most of that experience. Formula 9 is a 'tool-based' resource book that enables you to fortify your consciousness to live better and master your life. It is grounded in practical wisdom, spiritual truths, and depth psychology. With Formula 9 you can grow your understanding of the challenges and problems that come with everyday living in today's world. With Formula 9...
18) Under the Abaya
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A convergence of factors led me to Saudi Arabia: Professional calling, wanderlust, and race fatigue. In my truth, I went to Saudi Arabia to borrow some adventure, enjoy a change of scenery, and secure more meaningful and impactful work. That was also during a period when some sectors in the US economy were still regrouping from the latest financial crisis. In academia, full-time university teaching positions were in short supply in a vacillating and...
20) Murder at Vassar
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Thorndike Press
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©1987
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428 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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