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"The definitive biography of George Michael, offering an expansive look at the troubled life of the legendary singer, songwriter, and pop superstar" --
George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter of true craft and substance, and his music swept the world, starting in the mid-1980s. His fabricated image--that of a hypermacho sex god--loomed large in the...
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A collection of previously released horror movies that typically involve naive characters unwittingly caught up in dangerous situations with murderous creatures, evil spirits, or deranged humans.
White zombie : A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiancé, but instead turns her into a zombie slave.
Devil bat : A mad scientist develops an aftershave lotion that causes his gigantic bats to kill anyone who wears...
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Rear window: "A photographer ... becomes obsessed with watching his neighbors and discovers a possible murder"--Set container.
Vertigo: "[A] dizzying web of mistaken identity, passion and murder involving an acrophobic detective and a mysterious blonde"--Set container.
North by northwest: "[An] adman ... gets plunged into a realm of spy and counterspy and is abducted, framed for murder, chased and crop-dusted"--Set container.
Psycho: "[An] unsuspecting...
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Kelly's heroes: World War II soldiers learn of a fortune of gold bars that the Germans have stashed in enemy territory, and decide to steal the loot. The dirty dozen: Twelve tough criminals are offered absolution if they undertake a suicide mission into Nazi Germany. Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should also be told to trust nothing, including the search-and-rescue order just issued to them....
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Rear window: A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Vertigo: A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Psycho: A Phoenix secretary embezzles cash from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his...
13) A poem a day
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In times past, Americans with a love of poetry routinely learned by heart dozens of poems - Shakespeare's sonnets, stirring patriotic verse, odes to churchyards and elegies for the departed, the wit of Dorothy Parker and the music of Swinburne or Poe or Yeats. A Poem a Day includes 366 poems old and new, one for each day of the year, worth learning by heart. All share two things in common - they are short enough to learn in a day, and good enough...
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Pillow talk: A romantic comedy in which a carefree bachelor and carefree career girl share a telephone party line. Mutual hostility develops without their ever having met. When they finally become acquainted attitudes begin to change.
Lover come back: An adman and adwomen battle over a fake account and wind up in bed together.
Send me no flowers: When he overhears a doctor discussing the imminent death of a patient, hypocondriac George bealieves...
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Night of the living dead: There is panic throughout the nation as the dead suddenly come back to life. The film follows a group of characters who barricade themselves in an old farmhouse in an attempt to remain safe from these bloodthirsty, flesh-eating monsters.
World War Z: Gerry Lane travels the globe in an effort to eliminate the zombie pandemic that is endangering the existence of humanity.
Day of the dead: A small group of military officers...
19) Dog poems
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"Canis familiaris: man's best friend. Dogs have followed at our heels from our earliest hunts and have remained our faithful companions through thick and thin, triumph and disaster. At every age of history and at every stage of our lives, we look to dogs for friendship, love, labor, understanding, admiration, and compassion. And yet they give us far more than even all that. From Diogenes to Clarice Lispector, our most beloved writers and poets have...
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In recent years Africa's booming art scene has gained substantial global attention, with a growing number of international exhibitions and a stronger-than-ever presence on the art market worldwide. Here, for the first time, is the most substantial survey to date of modern and contemporary African-born or Africa-based artists. Working with a panel of experts, this volume builds on the success of Phaidon's bestselling Great Women Artists in re-writing...
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