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"A triumphant Caesar enters Rome after defeating the sons of his old enemy, Pompey. Jealousy and fear over Caesar's reforms reveal a brewing conspiracy to assassinate him. As the plot thickens, Caesar's wife is plagued by terrible nightmares and begs him not to go to the Capitol. But Caesar shrugs off her fears and is accompanied to the Senate by the conspirators thus sealing his fate. Caesar's loyal friends rally to avenge his death and preserve...
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[1995]
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The Third Man is a gripping post-World War II thriller set in the dark and divided city of Vienna, which is still reeling from the war. The novel follows Rollo Martins, a pulp fiction writer, who arrives in Vienna at the invitation of his friend, Harry Lime, only to find that Lime has recently died under suspicious circumstances. As Martins begins to investigate, he uncovers a web of corruption, betrayal, and intrigue involving war profiteering and...
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p2007
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Throughout his 70-year career, architect Frank Lloyd Wright is considered one of the best architect's of the modern world. He revolutionized his industry, creating many great works, including the Guggenheim Museum. However, Wright's life was not without turmoil. This moving drama focuses on Wright's stormy relationships, and the grisly murder of his wife and children.
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p2009
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Did Lord Byron kill an obsure English poet in a duel? Was Fermat's Theorem first solved by a 13-year-old in 1809? Part detective story, part love story, and part comedy of manners, Arcadia is also a crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature and chaos theory, leapfrogging across 200 years in the life of an eccentric aristocratic family.
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2015
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Permafrost is an unincorporated (and entirely concocted) town on the logging road, off the gravel road, off the county road from Big Falls, in Koochiching County, Minnesota. It went into the unusually hard winter of 1887-88 and never came out. Oh, it isn't frozen in time, it's just frozen. There is what is called a "microclimate" around Permafrost. About two square miles around the town and a lake are below freezing all year round. It doesn't get...
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