Uli Edel
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Traces Caesar's rise to prominence as a brilliant military tactician. Includes his complex relationships with his mentor General Pompey and his second wife Calpurnia. His ideological tiltings with Senator Cato, who advocates democracy over Caesar's dictatorial ambitions. Explains Caesar's violent epileptic seizures, his megalomania, his casually calculated cruelties, and his bigamous relationship with Egyptian queen Cleopatra. His nephew, Brutus,...
2) Houdini
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
Author
Series
Houdini volume 1
Language
English
Description
From humble beginnings at circus sideshows to sold out concert halls in Europe, night 1 of Houdini follows the rise of the boy Erich Weiss as he becomes the man Harry Houdini, master escapologist.
Author
Series
Houdini volume 2
Language
English
Description
Night 2 of Houdini follows Harry Houdini's epic battle against the spiritualists whose practices he found to be false and misleading. As the 20th century progresses, Houdini must come to terms with his new place in a fast-changing world.
Author
Language
English
Description
Oscar winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) stars in this intense and chilling thriller about one man's desperate search for his missing child. One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Lawford (Cage) is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages, he can't explain. Together with his estranged wife (Sarah Wayne Callies, The Walking Dead), he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their son-and,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this high-spirited family comedy, a kindly clan of Scottish vampires befriend a California kid who's far from home, a boy who may become The Little Vampire. For Tony Thompson (Jonathan Lipnicki), it's not easy being a nine year old in a new country. The young American from the big city has just moved to a small, remote village in Scotland--and now he's having nightmares about vampires. But they aren't nightmares; the vampires are real; and they're...
