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101) Tora! Tora! Tora!
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A dramatization which chronicles the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both the Japanese and American points of view.
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Go back to where the fun began! You're invited to return to Ponyland, the home of all your favorite classic Little Ponies, including Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasus Ponies, Flutter Ponies, Sea Ponies, Baby Ponies, their human friends Megan, Danny, and Molly, and of course, their dragon friend Spike! Together, they live a life of games, songs, and harmony with allies like the Bushwoolies and Furbobs. But, occasionally, there are problems in Ponyland...
103) Jo's boys
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Look out for Little Women-soon to be a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Timothée Chalamet, and Meryl Streep! Louisa May Alcott's enchanting tale of Jo March and her former students concludes with this beautiful keepsake edition of Jo's Boys, the final novel in the Little Women Collection! Ten years after Jo opened a school for boys, the little men have grown up and left Plumfield. Now college students, sailors, and musicians,...
104) Frankenstein
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Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils...
106) The age of innocence
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An elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870's, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. Before their engagement is announced, he meets May's cousin, the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, who has returned to New York after a long absence.
108) Disney's toy story
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Woody the cowboy and Buzz Lightyear, two talking toys, have a fantastic adventure when they go out into the real world.
109) Make mine music
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A collection of 9 musical animated shorts. Includes two bonus cartoons (The band concert, Farmyard symphony) following the feature.
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Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to...
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In this classic adventure novel, first published in 1873, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 pound wager set by his friends at the Reform Club - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman and his manservant immediately set off.
113) Von Ryan's Express
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Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.
114) The scarlet letter
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In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet 'A' stitched conspicuously upon her dress. But though she bears the stigma of the shame her peers would confer upon her, others feel the guilt for her transgression more acutely--notably the pious Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the...
115) Captains courageous
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Harvey Cheyne, the son of a millionaire, learns lessons about life, responsibility, determination, and self-reliance when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the life and hard work of his rescuers.
116) Three little pigs
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When the first two brothers answer 'not I' to the big bad wolf question, they go on to build their new homes - one out of straw and the other of sticks. But when the wolf huffs and puffs and blows their houses down, the brothers seek protection in the third pig's house. He made his house out of bricks. When the wolf comes to blow down the house, the brothers hope it is strong enough.
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In a faraway kingdom, two boys who look exactly the same meet by chance. They decide to switch places. Mickey is a pauper who dreams about a life of luxury, and the Crown Prince, who wishes he could be as free as his subjects. Each boy faces extraordinary challenges in his new role, and together they must figure out how to save the kingdom from an evil Captain who wants the throne for himself.
120) Northanger Abbey
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This Gothic story by beloved author Austen follows 17-year-old Catherine Morland as she experiences literature, full conversation, and mysterious tales in the eerie Northanger Abbey estate in a classic hardcover edition.
