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1) Othello
Author
Formats
Description
Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeare's life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived "Othello"--selections from Giraldi Cinthio's "Hecatommithi". Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University.
2) The edge
Description
A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane chrashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
3) Grease
Description
Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.
4) Fargo
Description
A midwestern policewoman investigates a series of brutal and interconnected crimes. Steadily, she tightens the net on the killers and their accomplices in a kidnapping scheme gone wildly wrong.
Series
Criterion collection volume 409
Description
A young couple who pretend to be brother and sister move from Chicago to the Texas panhandle to escape poverty. There, they work the ranch of a rich and handsome farmer, who has fallen in love with the woman.
8) Blood simple
Series
Criterion collection volume 834
Description
A man hires a private investigator to kill his wife, who he thinks is cheating on him, and her lover, but the investigator has a plan of his own. A bad situation suddenly gets worse.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
After a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers with the motto "all for one" accept Hannah Rinaldi into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success, but that's exactly what they get. While her career takes off, her eccentric and envious colleagues struggle to find their own paths to publishing fame and fortune. Tensions rise, rivalries form, and hearts are broken. Rejection turns to desperation. Good thing they're only armed...
11) Joseph
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Joseph, the youngest and favorite son of Jacob, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his jealous brothers. Through intelligence and common sense, he becomes one of the Pharaoh's most trusted servants.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Not that Bridget is counting, but it's been six wonderful weeks, four fabulous days, and seven percious hours with one flawless boyfriend, Mark. But when mischievous and devilishly charming Daniel arrives on the scene claiming to be a reformed man, can Bridget find a way to make true love last forever?
13) Drive me crazy
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Opposites attract with irresistible force in this fresh, funny, feel-good comedy about two mismatched teens who scheme to make their ex's jealous.
14) Julie
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Has beautiful Julie Benton married a murderer, an insanely jealous man who killed her first husband in hopes of marrying her? When Julie learns the answer is yes, she escapes him in a desperate attempt to forge a new life, taking a job as a stewardess. But her husband has no intention of letting Julie go, ever.
16) Cyrus
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When a divorced man meets a woman at a party and starts dating her, he discovers that she and her son are extremely close and the son will do anything to keep other men away from his mother.
17) Othello
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Richard Price presents the special stage-to-screen studio production of the Royal Shakespeare Company's presentation of Othello by William Shakespeare, directed by Trevor Nunn.
18) The edge
Pub. Date
1999
Description
A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane chrashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization.
Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Description
A human story of jealousy, blackmail, self-made men, frustrated ambitions and secrecy that takes place in Melbourne, Australia in the 19th century and involves an investigation into a homicide where the deceased was discovered on the inside of a hansom cab. The influential and secretive Frettlby family is at the center of the mystery, and the name of the killer himself is not as much significance in the story, as is the role of the Frettlby family...