Robert Bernstein
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein take a fascinating excursion into the world of folk medicine, unearthing stories that range widely across time and place, from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, investgating a multicultural roster of age-old remedies often dismissed by twentieth-century Western medicine as harmful or foolish but now shown to have real scientific validity-- an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Exercise your imagination and set off sparks of genius. In this mind-expanding book, Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein describe the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Amadeus Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and show how you can practice the same imaginative skills to be your most inventive, at any time in your life"--Publisher
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to disinherit him if he marries her. Jane's mother also...
5) Nowhere boy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war...
8) Black death
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1348. Europe has fallen under the shadow of the Black death. As the plague decimates all in its path, fear and superstition are rife. There are rumors of a village, hidden in marshland that the plague cannot reach. There is even talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to bring the dead back to life. Ulric, a fearsome knight, is charged by the church to investigate these rumors.
9) Diana
Publisher
Entertainment One Film USA LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A look into the private realm of one the world's most iconic and inescapably public women in the last two years of her meteoric life, and explores the Princess of Wales' final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights is an excitingly fresh and distinct take on the classic novel by Emily Bronte. An epic love story that spans childhood well into the young adult years, the film follows Heathcliff, a boy taken in by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, this charming romantic comedy recounts the glorious celebration of the end of World War II in Europe; and the singular evening when Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret leave the confines of Buckingham Palace to join the festivities, while giving their chaperones the slip.
13) Wilderness
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A group of inmates in need of rehabilitation are sent into the wilderness in the hopes of turning their lives around. What is in the woods wants to teach them a lesson they will never forget.
14) The decoy bride
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When the world's media descend on the remote Scottish Island where a Hollywood actress is attempting to get married, a local girl is hired as a decoy bride to put the paparazzi off the scent.
Series
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mrs Brown: Queen Victoria was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation.
Ethan Frome: Story of a man torn between his joyless marriage to one woman and his lustful desire for another.
Brideshead revisited: When the charming aristocrat Sebastian invites Charles Ryder to his...
16) Nowhere boy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A biopic documenting John Lennon's adolescence, his relationships and family, his musical roots, and the beginnings of the Beatles.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
20) Superman: Vol. 3
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A collection of Superman comics that were originally published in 1961 and 1962. Includes Superman's introduction of Supergirl to the world and the 1961 imaginary story "The Death of Superman."