Elizabeth Ashley
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English
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Lay your head down and rest.
Those blisters hurt, don't they?
"But they're so beautiful. How could they make me bleed?"
She said faintly.
I pulled her hair back
And, tucked it behind her ears.
"I know ...
But, it is time for you to heal now.
Remember, darling, even red bottoms are painful,"
I replied.
Shoes to Fill is a collection of poetry about breaking and becoming through love and loss. Every page is hopefully, giving a voice to the voiceless...
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English
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The discovery of a previously unknown endocrine system in the 1990s was to change the face of human biology forever. Science finally had answers as to why tumours grow, hormones attack the body and some people's pain levels are off the scale. The ramifications of manipulating such a system were vast, illnesses like epilepsy, autism and cancer could become, a thing of the past.
Its revelation shocked physicians across the globe, as this medical marvel...
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English
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Mammoth's new pastor is starting over. Using the pseudonym, Jake Gibb, he plans on staying far from his infamous father's shadow. When Jake meets the misunderstood Lilah Dale-a woman in the midst of a divorce and with nothing to hide thanks to the local prayer chain-he is convicted in the choice he's made to hide his true identity. With mutual deceptions marring their future, Jake and Lilah must form a careful relationship, and together learn that...
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English
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Analyzing a wide variety of late-nineteenth-century sources, Sex, Skulls, and Citizens argues that Argentine scientific projects of the era were not just racial encounters, but were also conditioned by sexual relationships in all their messy, physical reality.
The writers studied here (an eclectic group of scientists, anthropologists, and novelists, including Estanislao Zeballos, Lucio and Eduarda Mansilla, Ramón Lista, and Florence Dixie) reflect...
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English
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In her debut collection, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It's a book built around day-to-day conflicts - poems about love, family, grief, power, and longing. Navigating the fault lines of popular culture and traditional poetry to assert that we are all history makers, Slow States of Collapse enters the landscape of personal narrative in an attempt to reconcile life's little universal...
6) Fry Day
Publisher
New Europe Film Sales
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Ted Bundy’s execution in 1989. Winner of the Student Visionary Award at the **Tribeca Film Festival.** Winner of the Film Design Award and Nominated for the Grand Jury Award for Narrative Short at the **SXSW Film Festival.**
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright told by the longtime drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other that gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant playwrights of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. In the sensational saga of Williams's rise and fall, Lahr captures not just the man's tempestuous public persona...
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English
Description
Elizabeth Lange has arrived at Cypress Point Spa in Pebble Beach, California, weary of heart and soul. Still grieving for her beloved sister, a famous actress who plunged to her death from her Manhattan penthouse, Elizabeth is determined to unearth the truth about how Leila died. Dashing multimillionaire Ted Winters stands accused of her murder, but Elizabeth has doubts. Along the windswept cliffs of the Monterey coast, in luxurious bungalows, between...
13) Coma
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A young doctor at a Boston hospital becomes suspicious when healthy young people undergoing routine operations are mysteriously slipping into irreversible comas.
15) Rancho Deluxe
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1974
Language
English
Description
Two drifters become imcompetent cattle rustlers in modern Montana.
16) Ship of fools
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a budding Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come.
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Publisher
Rizzoli
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Chocolate Room has become a place of pilgrimage for chocolate lovers from near and far, thanks to its simple mission: to create treats that bring back those original childhood memories of the pure joy of chocolate. Its chefs have a knack for reconstructing a classic American recipe in ways that improve on the original. The book also features informative primers on important techniques including tempering chocolate, whipping cream and eggs, and...
Author
Series
Route 66 volume 22
Language
English
Description
Tod comes to the rescue of a young woman who jumps into the bear pit of the Houston zoo.
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Society grande dame Alice Grenville is appalled when her son marries Ann, an El Morocco showgirl. She snubs her unsuitable daughter-in-law until the young woman unloads a shotgun at what she claims is a prowler, but turns out to be her husband. Then Alice and her elite friends come to the rescue, protecting Ann from a murder charge rather than subject their moneyed circle to the unpleasantness of police and publicity.
20) Manet/Degas
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Publisher
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This exhibition examines one of the most significant artistic dialogues in modern art history: the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. Born only two years apart, Manet (1832-1883) and Degas (1834-1917) were friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists who worked to define modern painting in France. By examining their careers in parallel and presenting their work side by side, this exhibition investigates...