Thomas Mitchell
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Just before the First World War destroyed a generation and divided Europe for almost a century, a farmer in a remote part of Aberdeenshire sat down at the age forty-three to write his thoughts on how to live a good life. Mitchell had a clear, fresh and effective prose style in Standard English, and was well placed to record the values of his time and his individual take on them. His is now a voice from the past that demands our attention, not necessarily...
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As an IT professional, it is important to keep up with cloud technologies and learn to manage those technologies. PowerShell is a critical tool that must be learned in order to effectively and more easily manage many Azure resources. This book is designed to teach you to leverage PowerShell to enable you to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure. Taking you through the basic tasks of installing Azure PowerShell and connecting to Azure, you...
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Leverage PowerShell to perform many day-to-day tasks in Microsoft Azure Key Features Deploy and manage Azure virtual machines with PowerShell commands. Get to grips with core concept of Azure PowerShell such as working with images and disks, custom script extension, high availability and more. Leverage hands-on projects to successfully apply what you learned through the course of this book. Book Description As an IT professional, it is important to...
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Soul Tracks III is a collection of nearly 90 poems penned over lifetime of living and loving. Amusing, insightful, heart-wrenching, and brilliant, these reflections will surprise you with their depth of thought and feeling, and a few will leave you sighing and smiling. The author embraces a remarkable range of subjects from being a chocoholic to observing man's litter to appearing yet again in traffic school to ruminating on the difficulty of listening...
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After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.
7) The outlaw
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"Notorious western tells the tale of Billy the Kid and the sexy dame (Jane Russell) who loves him."
8) Wilson
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Woodrow Wilson moves from his position as the head of Princeton to the Governorship of New Jersey to the White House, where he eventually uses all of his efforts to end World War I.
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Twin sisters are implicated in a Hollywood murder and a police detective must figure out if one or both were involved in the killing. A psychiatrist approached by the detective to help with the complicated case agrees to see them separately and is immediately attracted to one of them and fears the other one to be the killer, but he's worried that if he's wrong he could end up on a slab in the morgue himself.
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An epic story of the South's fight to maintain it's way of life during the Civil War years. It starts out as Scarlett O'Hara and her family are amongst the ladies and "chivalrous" gentlemen at the Twelve Oaks Plantation's ball before the Civil War begins. How Scarlett's love for one man keeps her from seeing the love that another man truly has for her. As the South finally crumbles down around her, Scarlett devises a way to overcome starvation in...
11) Silver River
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An ex-Civil War officer receives a dishonorable discharge, becomes a powerful business man out West, and devises a plot to steal an employee's wife.
12) Joan of Paris
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A simple barmaid named Joan sacrifices her own safety to help five fugitive British airmen escape from France. She must devise a means of escape for the men and she finds herself falling in love with the squadron leader.
13) The black swan
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Studio classic volume 38
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Pirate Morgan is pardoned and made the new governor of Jamaica on one condition - he must stop his fellow pirates from doing their criminal actions.
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Criterion collection volume 806
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A traveling entertainer gets more than she bargained for during a stopover in a South American port town. There she meets a handsome yet aloof daredevil pilot, who runs an airmail company, staring down death while servicing towns in treacherous mountain terrain. Both attracted to and repelled by his romantic sense of danger, she decides to stay on, despite his protestations.
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George Bailey is not having a good day. His life in the sleepy little town of Bedford Falls has been thrown off track, perhaps never to recover. His business has failed, he's wanted by the police, and he's had a fight with his beloved wife Mary. On this disastrous day, his responsibilities and frustrations overwhelm him, leading him to a bridge and serious contemplation of suicide. It's up to an angel named Clarence to convince George that his life...
17) Lost horizon
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Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
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Criterion collection volume 505
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In this "enormously moving Depression-era depiction of the frustrations of family, aging, and the generation gap" ... "an elderly couple must move in with their adult children after the bank takes their home, yet end up separated and subject to their ofspring's selfish whims."--Container