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261) Galileo's dream
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time.
263) Life is beautiful
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1930s Italy a bumbling Jewish waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. But that life is threatened by World War II.
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Examines moments that altered the course of history and shaped the modern world. Gives a comprehensive account of the famed leaders and brilliant military tactics that changed history. Visit locations around the world to examine what is known of these legendary encounters. Witness recreations of the crucial battles of Rome and beyond - from Cannae to Marathon to Thermopylae - and follow some of the greatest warriors of all time, including Hannibal,...
265) The English patient
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, four survivors live in an abandoned villa in Italy: a nurse, her English patient, a thief whose skills were put to heroic use during the war, and an Indian sapper hunting out unexploded bombs.
269) Who was Marco Polo?
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A biography of the famous medieval Venetian traveler, Marco Polo.
Author
Series
Guncle volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Guncle (gay uncle) Patrick O'Hara takes his niece and nephew to Italy for his brother's wedding, where he becomes "overextended managing a groom with cold feet, his sister Clara--who seems to be flirting with guests left and right--a growing rivalry with the kids' alluring soon to be launt (lesbian aunt), and two anxious kids trying desperately to adjust to a new normal, all culminating in a disastrous rehearsal dinner. Can Patrick save the day? Will...
Author
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Gasherbrum, der leuchtende Berg = The dark glow of the mountains: Portrait of mountain climber Reinhold Messner. Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten = Ballad of the little soldier: Portrait of Nicaragua's Miskito Indian tribe who were persecuted by the Somoza regime and then fought the Sandinistas with guerrilla units composed largely of children. Massnahmen gegen Fanatiker = Precautions against fanatics: Fake-documentary short involving German celebrities...
273) Three fires
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Reimaging the "Bonfire of the Vanities" through a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, this modern take on a fascinating historical story follows Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican friar who, railing against the vice and avarice of the ruling Medici family, was instrumental in their removal from power.
274) Affairs of the heart: Series oneclassic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ing�enues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
275) Ben-Hur
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this Biblical epic, Jewish nobleman Ben-Hur struggles against Roman tyranny in first-century Palestine.
277) A man's skin
Author
Series
Publisher
Ablaze Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Italy, Bianca, a young lady from a good family, is of marriage age. Her parents find her a fiancé́ to their liking: Giovanni, a rich merchant, young and pleasant. The wedding looks set to go smoothly even though Bianca cannot hide her disappointment at having to marry a man she knows nothing about. But before the marriage, she learns the secret held and bequeathed by the women of her family for generations: a "man's skin"! By donning...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2011, c2006
Language
English
Description
World War II encompassed some of America's greatest triumphs and most bitter defeats. This comprehensive and intimate survey of this epic war features the greatest World War II documentaries, each packed with original archival footage, interviews with military experts and historians, and gripping reenactments from the War in Europe to the war in the Pacific.
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