Daniel Stern
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English
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It was in New York that he discovered Sarah. As Simon recovers from a professional disaster-and escapes Chicago for New York-he is drawn to the beautiful, exciting, and mysterious Sarah. Even though the forty-year-old Simon has a wife and child, he falls madly in love with Sarah. Devoting themselves with abandon to the pursuit of happiness, the lovers tour New York, Paris, Venice, and beyond. Their journey takes them deep within their emotions, and...
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A dark and beautiful tale of a most unusual school Wolf Walker is the director of the Suicide Academy. Troubled individuals come to his school for just one day and must decide whether to end their lives. As for Wolf himself, he is suffering a kind of death-in-life. The Academy's board members have involved him in a policy skirmish, and the depressed employee he had an affair with is not getting any better. When his ex-wife, Jewel, and her husband...
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More sly and imaginative tributes to some of the greatest writing of the modern age, from author Daniel Stern In Twice Told Tales, Stern wonderfully reimagined classics of world literature-from Forster to Freud-in homage to their authors and the power of great writing. Twice Upon a Time continues the project, though this time Stern goes further, weaving stories around texts as diverse as Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto and the poetry...
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Daniel Stern's sparkling reinventions of six great literary works Twice Told Tales is a new take on some of literature's greatest stories. In a bravura performance, acclaimed novelist Daniel Stern channels the particular styles and spirits of six classic pieces-even the writings of Sigmund Freud-into unexpected new settings. E. M. Forster, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway are updated in brilliantly drawn portraits, at once affectionate and satirical....
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English
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More of Daniel Stern's celebrated updates to classic tales The stories of One Day's Perfect Weather are original, but they flirt enchantingly with classic prose, poetry, and music. Inspired by sources as diverse as Robert Frost and Johann Sebastian Bach, Stern spins luminous short fiction that honors and expands upon its inspirations.
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This is our seventh set of Happy, Healthy Pet titles. Like the others, they are books pet owners can turn to for the essential information they need to raise a healthy, happy pet.
All books contain information on:
• feeding
• grooming
• housing
• health care
• what to expect from the pet
• basic training
As our series expands and focuses on different kinds of pets, the emphasis remains on making the pet a companion. Owners of more unusual...
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English
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Every new parent desperately wants to know what goes on in the mind of a baby. Now a noted authority on infant development and psychiatry brings us closer than ever before to penetrating a your child's consciousness. In alternating sections of evocative prose, representing the baby's own voice, and explanatory text, Daniel Stern draws on the latest research findings to recreate the baby's world." Daniel N. Stern, M.D., is a professor of psychology...
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Español
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En la superficie de la Luna contemplamos nuestra historia. Los accidentes selenográficos constituyen un registro intacto de la formación de la zona del Sistema Solar más cercana a la Tierra. Su nomenclatura es el reflejo de los claroscuros de nuestra sociedad. De las 1564 personas honradas con un nombre de cráter, únicamente 31 son mujeres y en su mayoría pertenecen a Europa y EE. UU. Datos que evidencian que quienes han contribuido al avance...
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Time Life
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
For six seasons, The Wonder Years captured the angst of growing up in suburban middle-class America in the late '60s, as seen through the life and times of Kevin Arnold. Audiences eagerly followed his evolution as a typical teenager who remembered every moment of his transition from childhood with excruciating detail and remarkable hindsight. Each episode of this award-winning show weaves cultural events and music into the storylines. Through it all,...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen version.
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English
Description
The original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy, Mom, and the old man. This time, Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
11) Breaking away
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.
12) Diner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
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Fox Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Kevin McCallister is ready to turn the Big Apple into his own playground. The notorious Wet Bandits, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are plotting a huge holiday heist in New York. Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps that the bumbling bandits will never forget.
14) City slickers
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Collector's ed.
Language
English
Description
Three friends go on a cattle drive in order to quench their mid-life crises. Includes audio commentary from director and actors; featurettes; and more.
15) Very bad things
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When a stripper dies at his bachelor party, Kyle Fisher and his friends decide to bury the evidence -- but fate has a way of not letting the truth stay buried for long.
16) Home alone
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English
Description
An eight-year-old boy is left home alone on Christmas, and has to defend his home against two bumbling burglars.
17) The last time
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the cutthroat world of New York City business sales, Ted Riker is the undisputed king. He's bitter, cynical and ruthless - the exact opposite of Jamie, his naive new sales partner from the Midwest. As Jamie fails time after time, he tries to befriend Ted and introduces him to his beautiful fiancee, Belisa. She awakens something in Ted. Ted has to decide to follow his heart, or go on to break Jamie's. With Jamie increasingly on edge, that could...
19) C.H.U.D
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English
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Beneath the streets of New York city, there are hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels unfit for anything human, unauthorized for anything experimental and unlikely to come to the surface...until now. Something horrible is loose in the sewers of Manhattan, and the city's homeless population has begun to mutate into 'Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers.' They are C.H.U.D. - hideous, hungry and headed for the streets! John Heard, Daniel...
