Robinson, CaseyOverview
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Casey Robinson
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Casey Robinson
Now, voyager
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3 editions published between 1980 and 2005 in English and held by 1,000 libraries worldwide A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
Captain Blood
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6 editions published between 1986 and 2006 in English and held by 809 libraries worldwide Arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion and falsely convicted of treason, Dr. Peter Blood is banished to the West Indies and sold into slavery. In Port Royal, Jamaica the Governor's daughter Arabella Bishop buys him for ten pounds to spite her uncle, Col. Bishop who owns a major plantation. Life is hard for the men and for Blood as well. By chance he treats the Governor's gout and is soon part of the medical service. He dreams of freedom and when the opportunity strikes, he and his friends rebel taking over a Spanish ship that has attacked the city. Soon, they are the most feared pirates on the seas, men without a country attacking all ships. When Arabella is prisoner, Blood decides to return her to Port Royal only to find that it is under the control of England's new enemy, France. All of them must decide if they are to fight for their new King.
Dark victory
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14 editions published between 1939 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 618 libraries worldwide The life of a fast moving Long Island socialite skids to a stop when she discovers that she has less than a year to live.
Kings Row
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5 editions published between 1940 and 2006 in English and held by 473 libraries worldwide When an aspiring doctor loses the one woman in his life to a tragic and untimely death, he goes off to Europe to forget. While he's gone, his friend Drake loses his inherited fortune and his fiance. He takes up with a woman "from the wrong side of the tracks" and an ensuing accident leaves him a cripple. When Cummings, now a full-fledged doctor returns home, it takes everything he has ever learned and experienced to put things right again.
The snows of Kilimanjaro
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35 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 470 libraries worldwide A famous writer, recovering from injuries on east Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, reflects on whether any meaning can be found in his life.
This is the Army
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24 editions published between 1943 and 2008 in English and held by 389 libraries worldwide Screen adaptation of the stage play that raised nearly $2 million for Army Emergency Relief. Features real-life GIs in a tale of a father and son who put on a show before the son marches off to war.
Now, voyager
by Casey Robinson
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3 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 339 libraries worldwide
Dark victory
by Casey Robinson
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4 editions published between 1939 and 1981 in English and held by 317 libraries worldwide
Ernest Hemingway's the snows of Kilimanjaro
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10 editions published between 1952 and 2005 in English and held by 260 libraries worldwide Injured on a hunting trip in Africa, a writer reflects on the compromises in his life in a series of flash-backs.
All this, and Heaven too
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5 editions published between 1940 and 2008 in English and held by 251 libraries worldwide Henriette is the governess at the Paris home of the Duc de Praslin and his jealous wife. When governess and nobleman are drawn to each other, the Duchess erupts in fury and meets a bloody fate. Soon Henriette and the Duc face a world eager to believe the Duc murdered his wife and that the gentle Henriette was a willing accomplice.
The corn is green
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1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 229 libraries worldwide Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat's School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.
Passage to Marseille
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9 editions published between 1944 and 2006 in English and German and held by 226 libraries worldwide The war is just beginning and France has not yet surrendered to the Germans. A French vessel picks up five semi-conscious men in a canoe. All ex-convicts, they have escaped from Devil's Island to do their bit for France. The tensions aboard the Marseille-bound ship slowly build to a shattering clash of wills between the men and the ship's Nazi sympathizer.
The old maid
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4 editions published between 1939 and 2008 in German and English and held by 208 libraries worldwide Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
Now voyager
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14 editions published between 1942 and 2005 in English and Multiple languages and held by 167 libraries worldwide A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
Captain Blood
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18 editions published between 1935 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 151 libraries worldwide A young British surgeon (Errol Flynn), wrongly condemned by Judge Jeffreys for treating rebels, escapes from slavery and becomes a Caribbean pirate.
The snows of Kilimanjaro
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2 editions published between 1989 and 2006 in English and held by 135 libraries worldwide A drama about a successful but disillusioned writer who, near death from a hunting wound in Africa, reviews his amorous intrigues and his experiences as hunter and world traveler.
Father was a fullback
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1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 117 libraries worldwide As if the season wasn't going badly enough for college football coach Fred MacMurray, problems are mounting at home with his two daughters.
Under my skin
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 106 libraries worldwide Dan Butler is running out of places to run. After throwing too many U.S. and Italian horse races, he's now on the lam from a gangster whom he purposely double-crossed by winning a big race. Escaping to France, Dan finds more complications and conflict, including a Left Bank cafeĢ singer who blames him for her boyfriend's death, his ten-year-old son whose idolotry of Butler is being slowly stripped away, and the newly arrived gangster, who wants Dan to throw a high-stakes steeplechase race, or else!
Alfred Hitchcock presents Volume 3
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1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 79 libraries worldwide Poison: "James Donald, co-ower of a Malaysian plantation, is reading in bed when a deadly snake crawls onto his stomach and goes to sleep. Donald must not move...must ot cough...must remain calm if he hopes to survive. but the one man in a position to help is a two-legged snake--his sardonic partner Wendell Corey--who has his eye on Donald's business and his girl"--Container.
The Egyptian
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3 editions published between 1989 and 2011 in English and held by 77 libraries worldwide A physician to the Pharaoh Akhenaton in ancient Egypt is a participant in the tumultuous events that occurred in his lifetime. more
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Africa American Civil War (1861-1865) Amputees Aunts Authors Blood, Captain (Fictitious character) British Caribbean Area Community life Drama Feature films Feature films Fiction films Field, Rachel,--1894-1942 Film adaptations Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired France--Paris Friendship Heiresses Hemingway, Ernest,--1899-1961 Historical films History Hunters Literacy Man-woman relationships Melodramas (Motion pictures) Miners Missouri Mothers and daughters Motion picture plays Motion picture plays Musical films Pirates Romance films Sabatini, Rafael,--1875-1950 Single women Small cities Tanzania--Mount Kilimanjaro Terminally ill United States Unmarried mothers Video recordings Video recordings--for the hearing impaired Wales War films Wharton, Edith,--1862-1937 Williams, Emlyn,--1905-1987 Women World War (1939-1945)
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German (25) Spanish (17) Multiple languages (14) French (8) No Linguistic content (2) Undetermined (2) Japanese (1) Chinese (1) Portuguese (1) Covers
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