Brian Moore
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
For four decades, Pierre Brossard has eluded capture as one of the most vicious SS officers in history. Condemned to death in absentia he's tenuously protected by an intricate web of Nazi collaborators and an extreme right-wing faction of the Catholic Church. With nothing more than a suitcase and a prayer, Brossard seeks refuge in a monastery outside Salon-de-Provence. He knows the Committee for Justice is closing in. With every reason to fear his...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Early in her marriage to renowned prestidigitator Henri Lambert, Emmeline had exulted in his fame, the foreign tours, and the command performances of his "Magical Evenings." Now, Henri's given it all up to pursue a quiet life in their remote country manor, but restless, devoted Emmeline longs to see her husband return to his former glory.
It all changes again when, in service to their country, Henri and Emmeline are invited to spend seven days at...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
©1990
Edition
1st ed. in the United States of America.
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the IRA orders Dillon to park his car at a Belfast hotel, he knows he's planting a bomb that will kill and maim dozens. He also knows his wife will be killed if he disobeys.
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
[1968]
Physical Desc
217 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
She was born Mary Dunne. A New York actress in a stalled career, she's previously been known as Maria and Martha. Married three times, she's also been called Mrs. Phelan, Mrs. Bell, and currently, Mrs. Terence Lavery-wife of the esteemed playwright. No wonder Mary Dunne forgot her name this morning at the hairdresser. She has no idea who she is anymore. Or maybe she's just crazy. She's curious to find out.
Over the course of a single day, Mary tries...
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1973, c1972]
Physical Desc
107 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Rome, surrendering to secular pressures, the Fourth Vatican Council is stirring a revolution with their official denial of the church's core doctrines. They've abolished clerical dress and private confession; the Eucharist is recognized only as an outdated symbol; and they're merging with the tenets of Buddhism. They're also unsettled by the blind faith of devout pilgrims from around the world congregating on a remote island monastery in Ireland-the...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
©1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 246 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jesuit Father Laforgue sets forth in the Canadian wilderness to convert the Algonkins. He travels deep into the wilderness with the Indians and is abandoned to his fate in 17th-century Canada.
10) No other life
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Physical Desc
223 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Pub. Date
©1983
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Alex Davenport and his wife Marie attend a medical convention, and he is killed in a motorboat accident on their brief holiday in Nice before returning to New York. Then Alex's body, plane ticket, and passport disappear.
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and of growing up geeky. Longbefore the latest vogue for autofiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's mostbeloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Raisedon comic books and science fiction, the young Mari constructed an alternate universe for himself untouched by uncomprehending grownups or sadistic peers. Compared to the horrors of real life, Long...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this charming, deeply atmospheric novel set against the dazzling Amalfi Coast of the 1950s, two women form an intense and lasting friendship. Inspired by her own adventurous, unconventional life, actress and writer Goliarda Sapienza's recently rediscovered novel takes the reader to the sun-drenched town of Positano in southern Italy. There, while working on a film, Goliarda encounters the captivating Erica, a beautiful widow called "Princess"...
15) The Conflict
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Martin Sheen stars in this religious drama that pits the protectors of tradition against the emissaries of change. Sheen, on a mission from the Vatican to help adminsister reforms within the Roman Catholic Church, is dispatched to a secluded monastery in Ireland where he meets an Abbot (Trevor Howard) that does not share his views on how to lead his flock.
Publisher
Distributed by Motion Picture Distribution
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter.
17) The statement
Series
Publisher
Distribtued by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An escaped Nazi collaborator is the target of an ambitious judge, a scrupulous colonel and two mysterious hit men.
18) Torn curtain
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 8 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"World-famous American scientist Michael Armstrong, and his fiancee/assistant, Sarah Sherman, travel to Copenhagen for a physics conference. When Sarah mistakenly intercepts a message meant for Armstrong, she believes that he is secretly defecting to East Germany. Or is he? As Armstrong goes undercover to glean top-secret information, the couple find themslves running for their lives from enemy agents"--Container.
19) Lilies
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (486 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coming of age just after World War I, three sisters learn to rely on one another as they make their way in a harsh, sometimes brutal world on the brink of change.
20) Running wild
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. She must fight prejudice, greed, bureaucracy and vanity to finally understand that there is no better remedy to misfortune than helping another living creature.
