John Berry
2) The Crucible
Author
Language
English
Description
A haunting examination of groupthink and mass hysteria in a rural community The place is Salem, Massachusetts, in 1692, an enclave of rigid piety huddled on the edge of a wilderness. Its inhabitants believe unquestioningly in their own sanctity. But in Arthur Miller's edgy masterpiece, that very belief will have poisonous consequences when a vengeful teenager accuses a rival of witchcraft—and then when those accusations multiply to consume the...
5) Claudine
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine meets a charming garbage man, Roop. But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love.
Author
Publisher
Jhana Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[©2017]
Language
English
Description
This book, originally written by my Grandfather, was claimed by him as the memoirs of his life from growing up in the deep south Mississippi in the 1920's to 1940's, to his experience leaving Mississippi to pursue a new life in Detroit, and later moving his family to Ohio. He metaphorically and poetically interprets the birth and death of his spirit and how he came to know God.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Examines the devastating effects of racism on the human spirit through the progress of one couple's life together under Apartheid, as they are pushed from the bucolic Eden of South African farmlands into a makeshift shelter on the mudflats near Cape Town.
Language
English
Description
(Side A): The flying deuces: Laurel and Hardy join the French Foreign Legion and have a rough time as foot soldiers.
(Side B): Utopia: Laurel and Hardy inherit an island and a yacht to get them there. However, on their way, they are shipwrecked on a nameless atoll in the Pacific. Accompanied by a wide array of characters, the boys establish an island paradise.
9) World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
M. Cavendish
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
A history of one of the most devastating wars the world has ever seen, World War II.
Series
Film noir classic collection double feature volume Vol. 4
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Where danger lives: Jeff Cameron, a young intern at the beginning of his career, who links his destiny to that of a patient who is brought to the hospital after a suicide attempt. Jeff dumps the secure, rather plain nurse Julie, for the passionate but perplexing Margo. Confused and caught up in Margo's deceptions, Jeff loses his sense of reality and finds himself fleeing with her for the Mexican border.
Tension: A drugstore manager turns attempted...
13) Claudine
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine (Carroll) meets a charming garbage man, Roop (James Earl Jones). But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love"--Container.
Author
Series
Grosset all-color guide volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, a National General Company
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Describes the campaign and dress uniforms of American and European soldiers from the seventeenth century through World War I.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001, c1978]
Language
English
Description
The third film in the series, the story contiunes as the Bad News Bears are spirited off to Tokyo by Marvin Lazar, a slick and sleazy con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team.