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Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Rich and strange: Adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma, and Val...
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Lord Louis Mountbatten was a British naval hero and Admiral of the Fleet as well as a member of the British royal family. Every summer for 20 years he would holiday in the Irish village of Mullaghmore, scoffing at security measures while he was there, because he believed the locals would never harm him. Mountbatten was well-liked, but the IRA hated what he symbolised - the "occupation" of Northern Ireland by the British. In 1979 the IRA blew up the...
249) One red shoe
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"There's been an attack. Grabbing his camera, a newspaper photographer rushes to the nearest clinic. What he finds there will change the way he thinks forever. Inspired by real events in the Middle East, this ground breaking and acclaimed picture book for older readers will take you to a place far from comfort and safety. What could you possibly have in common with the kids who live there? You're about to find out."--Dust jacket.
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The trial of the conspirators who tried to kill Hitler is shown through actual footage that provides details of the various attempts at assassination, from the bomb in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller to Claus von Stauffenberg's explosive attack on the Wolfsschanze. Features previously unseen film of the National Committee for a Free Germany, plus new information about members of the Kreisau Circle and the White Rose.
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"London, 1944/45 Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved. Kate's life is drastically interrupted once more when she wakes...
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"The story of one struggling middle-class Pakistani family, compellingly narrated by a young scholar and diplomat who has observed the traumas of the region firsthand. As a young boy, Awais Reza's family moved from Indian Kashmir to Lahore in Pakistan after Partition. Now middle-aged, Awais is a shopkeeper in the Anarkali Bazaar. Married, with three sons, he looks back on his journey from idealistic young nationalist to increasingly watchful and anxious...
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