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Legendary film director Robert Wise called the Whistler features, "examples of budget filmmaking at its very best." Noted B movie historian Don Miller cited them as, "the best B pics of the period from Columbia." Famed film critic/historian Leonard Maltin referred to the series as "one of the most unusual- and one of the best mystery series of the 30's and 40's. . ." Based on J. Donald Wilson's hit radio suspense program featuring ironic tales of...
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An "extremely atmospheric and poignant" novel of wounds that never heal and lives forever scarred by World War I (Books Monthly). They're called Whistlers-residents of a German hospital who have all been wounded in the throat, and whose every breath is punctuated with a high-pitched whistle. One young soldier, Pointner, has no hope for recovery. His only solace comes from the British sniper's cap he keeps as a trophy. Fellow casualty Kollin clings...
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“The Bird Whistler” is a timeless story, based on true events, of a young man coming of age during WWII, who stands up to the injustice around him by hiding Jewish children and becoming deeply involved in the Resistance. Simultaneously, the story tells of a Jewish couple and their newborn baby escaping the war in 1943. Along the way, betrayal causes them to lose their baby son, not knowing whether he is alive. The book is a tribute to all the...
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From the author of To the Finland Station and The Triple Thinkers comes a collection of five-extraordinary plays. Collected together in one volume, these selected plays by Edmund Wilson includes such works as Cyprian's Prayer, The Crime in the Whispering Room, This Room and This Gin and These Sandwiches, Beppo and Beth, and The Little Blue Light.
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The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler's controversial, groundbreaking “Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket”.
In November 1878, America's greatest painter sued England's greatest critic for a bad review. The painter won—but ruined himself in the process. The painter: James Abbot MacNeill Whistler, whose combination of incredible talent, unflagging energy, and relentless...
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It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician known only as "the Whistler." Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire and Natalie and Sophie are his latest victims. The young women leave their babies with Natalie's mother and...
8) Good Girls
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Three-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to Good Girls, the standalone sequel to Motherless Child.
Still in college, Rebecca is the "responsible one." She keeps her friends from getting too crazy-though Human Curling is kind of out there. She's a safety valve for Joel, her foster father, and helps out at Halfmoon House, which he runs with...
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It's 1923 and Rocky Mountain National Park is scarcely eight years old. District Ranger Tim McIntyre is investigating the unlawful killing of three elk. Gala Book-eleven-year-old daughter of the local barber-has befriended one particularly huge bull elk and decides to protect it by leading it into the safety of the park's backcountry.Elk are not the only endangered animals, either. While someone's killing elk to get the "whistler" ivory teeth, some...
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The daughter of a professional robber, Ronja realizes the complicated nature of her father's profession when she befriends Birk, the child of a rival tribe. She struggles to balance this friendship with her family relationship but comes to understand; differences can be overcome with the help of love and understanding.
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Whistler's Gentle Art, a classic in the literature of insult and denigration, might well be subtitled "The Autobiography of a Hater," for it contains the deadly sarcasm and stinging remarks of one of the wittiest men of the nineteenth century. Whistler not only refused to tolerate misunderstanding by critics and the so-called art-loving public — but launched vicious counterattacks as well. His celebrated passages-at-arms with Oscar Wilde and Swinburne,...
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A second chance at love
with a newborn as matchmaker!
Nothing will be merry about Steve Weston's Christmas if he doesn't find a nanny for his newborn nephew fast. But the best choice is Chloe Richardson, the woman he pushed away years ago. He has a second chance at making the season's joy last for a lifetime-unless he allows old wounds to separate them once more…
From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.
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"A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection of horror, fantasy, science fiction, and gritty crime by both new and established Indigenous authors that dares to ask the question: 'Are you ready to be un-settled?' Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief ranges far and wide and takes many forms; for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai'po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native...
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