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Shakespeare in love
by John Madden
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139 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 4,109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before. There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: she's promised to marry someone else, and she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production. DVD
Iron Man
by Jon Favreau
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43 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 3,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A wealthy industrialist is held captive in enemy territory and escapes by building a high-tech suit. When he returns home, he decides to use his money, talents, and suit to save the world
Emma
by Jane Austen
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95 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 2,790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegée, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small provincial world of Highbury with enthusiasm, but she will find it is all too easy to confuse good intentions with self-gratification
Iron Man 2
by Jon Favreau
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48 editions published between 2010 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 2,549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Now that the world knows billionaire inventor Tony Stark is the armored super hero Iron Man, his life has suddenly become even more intense. Everyone wants in on the Iron Man technology, whether for power or profit, but for Ivan Vanko, it's revenge. With Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, Stark must once again suit up and face his most dangerous enemy yet
The talented Mr. Ripley
by Anthony Minghella
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93 editions published between 1985 and 2013 in 7 languages and held by 2,077 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder
The Royal Tenenbaums
by Wes Anderson
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33 editions published between 2001 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 2,027 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family
Se7en
by David Fincher
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87 editions published between 1985 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 2,025 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins
Contagion
by Steven Soderbergh
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30 editions published between 2011 and 2014 in English and French and held by 2,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak
Sky Captain and the world of tomorrow
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30 editions published between 2004 and 2013 in English and German and held by 1,819 WorldCat member libraries worldwide An aviator and a reporter attempt to save the world from destruction by flying robots
Iron man three
by Shane Black
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30 editions published in 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,798 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "When Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy, and somehow protect those he loves. But a soul-searching question haunts him: Does the man make the suit-- or does the suit make the man?"--Container
Country strong
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17 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 1,730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Soon after a rising young singer-songwriter gets involved with a fallen, emotionally unstable country star, the pair embark on a career resurrection tour steered by her husband/manager, that includes a beauty-queen-turned-singer. Between the concerts, romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all
Proof
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25 editions published between 2001 and 2012 in English and held by 1,562 WorldCat member libraries worldwide With the help of one of her father's former students, Catherine, a devoted daughter, must come to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability. After his death, a notebook containing a mathematical proof is found and Catherine claims the proof is her own work
Sliding doors
by Hou wei te
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51 editions published between 1995 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,343 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. The film follows both scenarios
Great expectations
by Charles Dickens
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44 editions published between 1997 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,265 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Dickens' tale of an apprentice given the chance to become a gentleman is now that of a young Florida artist named Finn, given the chance to become a success in 1990s New York. First, a mysterious convict bullies Finn into saving his life. Next, Finn is summoned to an overgrown Gothic palazzo where Nora Dinsmoor lives in the past, attended by beautiful blonde Estella, who will haunt him through the rest of the story. Last, there is secret benefactor whose munificence allows him to work toward his dream of success, and to win Estella
Running with scissors
by Ryan Murphy
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12 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 1,261 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home, getting too many prescriptions and too much bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family
Possession
by Neil LaBute
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23 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and French and held by 1,231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Roland is an academic researcher who discovers some important letters written by a famous Victorian poet, Randolph Henry Ash. Ash was presumed to have been totally devoted to his wife, but Roland finds letters written to another unnamed woman, and soon determines that the intended recipient was another, less well-known poet, Christabel LaMotte. Roland contacts Maud, an expert on LaMotte's life and work. Despite her skepticism, the two begin to investigate, and uncover a wealth of information about the affair between the two poets
Shallow Hal
by Bobby Farrelly
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29 editions published between 2001 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,231 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only physically beautiful women. One day, he runs into a self-help guru who hypnotises him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal then meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman who Hal sees as a vision of loveliness. Will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis and Hal sees the real Rosemary?
Sylvia
by Christine Jeffs
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27 editions published between 2003 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 1,114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Born in Boston, MA, in 1932, Sylvia Plath developed a talent as a writer and published her first poem when she was eight years old. That same year, Plath was forced to confront the unexpected death of her father. In 1950, she began studying at Smith College on a literary scholarship. In 1955, she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to study in England at Cambridge. There, Plath met Ted Hughes, a respected author. The two fell in love, and married in 1958. However, marriage, family, and a growing reputation as an important poet failed to bring Plath happiness
Two lovers
by James Gray
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18 editions published between 2008 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 1,114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide After Leonard moves back into the home he grew up in to mend a broken heart, he meets two women in quick succession. Michelle is a mysterious and beautiful neighbor. Sandra is the lovely and caring daughter of a businessman who is buying out his family's dry-cleaning business. Leonard is forced to make an impossible decision, between desire and the comfort of love, or risk falling back into the same darkness that nearly killed him
A perfect murder
by Andrew Davis
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28 editions published between 1998 and 2012 in 5 languages and held by 1,073 WorldCat member libraries worldwide To Manhattan's elite, Wall Street wheeler-dealer Steven Taylor seems like a devoted husband. He isn't. Beautiful, accomplished Emily Bradford Taylor seems like a faithful wife. She isn't. And when Steven hires Emily's lover to kill her, it seems like a perfect murder. But is it? Very little is what it seems in the sleek, sophistacated thriller sizzling with suspense and sharp dialogue more
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Austen, Jane, Benefactors Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Communicable diseases Country musicians Criminals Deadly sins Deception Divorced mothers Domestic drama Drugs--Prescribing England Epidemics Epidemiologists Families Fathers and daughters Fathers--Death Female friendship Gifted children Good and evil Grief Heroes Highsmith, Patricia, Iron Man (Fictitious character) Italy Love Love poetry, Romance Manners and customs Man-woman relationships Mathematicians Mental illness Mothers and sons Orphans Plath, Sylvia Poetry Poets Proof theory Psychiatrists Reporters and reporting Revenge Ripley, Tom (Fictitious character) Robots Shakespeare, William, Superficiality Superheroes Terrorists United States Weapons industry Young men Young women
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Alternative Names
Paltrova, Gvineta, 1972-
Paltrow, Gwyneth.
Paltrow, Gwyneth Kate 1972-
Languages
English
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Spanish (64) German (61) French (41) Multiple languages (5) Chinese (4) Italian (3) Dutch (3) Russian (1) Japanese (1) Catalan (1) Covers
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