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Great guitar lessons [videorecording (DVD)] : techniques and arrangements of master singer/songwriters / by Brady, Paul.; Larkin, Patty.; Muldaur, Geoff.; Rush, Tom.; Sebastian, John,1944-; Homespun Tapes.; Homespun Video.;
Paul Brady, Patty Larkin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush, John Sebastian, Chris Smithers, Livingston Taylor, David Wilcox.Various teachers show the techniques to learn guitar playing.E.DVD.
Subjects: Guitar; Guitar; Instructional films.;
© c2010., Homespun Video,
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The brothers of Auschwitz / by Adler, Malka,1946-author.; Canin, Noel,translator.; translation of:Adler, Malka,1946-Its'o u-Bernard.English.;
"Dov and Yitzhak live in a small village in the mountains of Hungary, isolated both from the world and from the horrors of the war. But one day in 1944, everything changes. The Nazis storm the homes of the Jewish villagers and inform them they have one hour before the train will take them to Auschwitz. Six decades later, from the safety of their living rooms at home in Israel, the brothers finally break their silence to a friend who will never let their stories be forgotten."--Cover flap.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Brothers; Jewish families;
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By chance alone : a remarkable true story of courage and survival at Auschwitz. by Eisen, Max.;
Includes bibliographical references.In the tradition of Wiesel's NIGHT and Levi's SURVIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ comes a new memoir by Canadian survivor. Tibor "Max" Eisen was born in Moldava, Czechoslovakia into an Orthodox Jewish family. In the spring of 1944, gendarmes forcibly removed Eisen and his family from their home. They were brought to a brickyard and eventually loaded onto crowded cattle cars bound for Auschwitz-Birkenau. The author will be donating 100% of his royalties for this book to registered charities that promote education and humane causes.
Subjects: Eisen, Max.; Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Holocaust survivors; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews;
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Churchill [videorecording] / by Anton, George,actor.; Aris, Jonathan,1971-actor.; Bluemhuber, Claudia,1969-film producer.; Cox, Brian,1946-actor.; Cree, Steven,actor.; Durden, Richard,actor.; Purefoy, James,1964-actor.; Purnell, Ella,1996-actor.; Richardson, Miranda,actor.; Slattery, John,1962-actor.; Taussig, Nick,1973-film producer.; Tempest, Piers,film producer.; Teplitzky, Jonathan,film director.; Van Carter, Paul,1976-film producer.; Von Tunzelmann, Alex,1977-screenwriter.; Wadham, Julian,1958-actor.; Webb, Danny,actor.; Creative Scotland (Organization),production company.; Embankment Films,production company.; Head Gear Films,production company.; LipSync Productions,production company.; Metrol Technology,production company.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.; Salon Pictures,production company.; Silver Reel (Firm),presenter.; Tempo Productions (Great Britain),production company.;
Music, Lorne Balfe ; editor, Chris Gill ; director of photography, David Higgs.Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Julian Wadham, Richard Durden, Danny Webb, Jonathan Aris, George Anton, Steven Cree, Ella Purnell, James Purefoy.June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with fulfilling historical greatness: his destiny.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, brief war images, historical smoking throughout, and some language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Historical films.; Feature films.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965; Prime ministers; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Chicken soup for the soul. 101 stories about overcoming the economic crisis and other challenges / by Canfield, Jack,1944-; Hansen, Mark Victor.; Newmark, Amy.;
An inspirational guide offers advice on overcoming adversity, pulling together, making do with less, facing challenges, and finding new joys in a simpler life, offering hope during an economic crisis.
Subjects: Conduct of life; Economic history; Spiritual life;
© c2009., Chicken Soup for the Soul Pub.,
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The German midwife / by Robotham, Mandy,author.;
Germany, 1944. A prisoner in the camps, Anke Hoff is doing what she can to keep her pregnant campmates and their newborns alive. But when Anke's work is noticed, she is chosen for a task more dangerous than she could ever have imagined. Eva Braun is pregnant with the Führer's child, and Anke is assigned as her midwife. Before long, Anke is faced with an impossible choice. Does she serve the Reich she loathes and keep the baby alive? Or does she sacrifice an innocent child for the good of a broken world?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Braun, Eva; Midwives; World War, 1939-1945;
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The island of Doctor Moreau / by Wells, H. G.(Herbert George),1866-1946,author.; Atwood, Margaret,1939-writer of introduction.; McLean, Steven,1973-writer of supplementary textual content.; Parrinder, Patrick,1944-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references.Dr. Moreau, a scientist, finds an isolated island that gives him the freedom to create hideous creatures with manlike intelligence.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Classics; Literary; Animal experimentation; Castaways; Islands; Shipwreck survival; Survival;
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Churchill's band of brothers : WWII's most daring D-Day mission and the hunt to take down Hitler's fugitive war criminals / by Lewis, Damien,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."On the night of June 13th, 1944, a twelve-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. The SAS patrol was ultimately betrayed, captured, and tortured by the Gestapo before facing execution in a dark French woodland on Hitler's personal orders. Miraculously, two of the condemned men managed to escape, triggering one of the most secretive Nazi-hunting operations ever, as the SAS vowed to track down every one of the war criminals who had murdered their brothers in arms ... all with Churchill's covert backing--
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service; Commando troops; Fugitives from justice; Nazi hunters.; Special forces (Military science); Special operations (Military science); War criminals; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Blue Madonna / by Benn, James R.,author.;
"Billy Boyle, US Army detective and ex-Boston cop, faces his toughest investigation yet: infiltrating enemy lines in France as the Allies invade Normandy. It's late May 1944. Captain Billy Boyle is court-martialed on spurious charges of black market dealings. Stripped of his officer's rank, reduced to private, and sentenced to three months' hard labor, Boyle is given an opportunity: he can avoid his punishment if he goes behind enemy lines to rescue a high-value Allied soldier. A secret chamber and tunnels, once used by escaping Huguenots in the 17th century, has since been taken over by the Allies. But this "safe house" on the outskirts of Chaumont turns out to be anything but. Two downed airmen, one Canadian and the other American, have been murdered. Billy is flown in as part of a three-man team on June 5, 1944, the night before the Normandy invasion. Billy must solve the mystery of who is behind the murders, then lead a group escape from France back to England, with both the Germans and a killer hot on their heels"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Boyle, Billy (Fictitious character); Murder; Undercover operations; World War, 1939-1945;
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Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom / by Ricks, Thomas E.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From #1 New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Ricks, a dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, with a focus on the pivotal years from the mid-1930s through the 1940s, when their farsighted vision and inspired action in the face of the threat of fascism and communism helped preserve democracy for the world. Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's--Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by a car in New York City. If they'd died then, history would scarcely remember them. At the time, Churchill was a politician on the outs, his loyalty to his class and party suspect. Orwell was a mildly successful novelist, to put it generously. No one would have predicted that by the end of the 20th century they would be considered two of the most important people in British history for having the vision and courage to campaign tirelessly, in words and in deeds, against the totalitarian threat from both the left and the right. Together, to an extent not sufficiently appreciated, they kept the West's compass set toward freedom as its due north. It's not easy to recall now how lonely a position both men once occupied. By the late 1930's, democracy was discredited in many circles, and authoritarian rulers were everywhere in the ascent. There were some who decried the scourge of communism, but saw in Hitler and Mussolini 'men we could do business with,' if not in fact saviors. And there were others who saw the Nazi and fascist threat as malign, but tended to view communism as the path to salvation. Churchill and Orwell, on the other hand, had the foresight to see clearly that the issue was human freedom--that whatever its coloration, a government that denied its people basic freedoms was a totalitarian menace and had to be resisted. In the end, Churchill and Orwell proved their age's necessary men. The glorious climax of Churchill and Orwell is the work they both did in the decade of the 1940'sto triumph over freedom's enemies. And though Churchill played the larger role in the defeat of Hitler and the Axis, Orwell's reckoning with the menace of authoritarian rule in Animal Farm and 1984 would define the stakes of the Cold War for its 50-year course, and continues to give inspiration to fighters for freedom to this day. Taken together, in Thomas E. Ricks's masterful hands, their lives are a beautiful testament to the power of moral conviction, and to the courage it can take to stay true to it, through thick and thin"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Prime ministers; Authors, English; Fascism; Communism; World politics;
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