Weekend Utopia: modern living in the hamptons
 From Amazon.com: The beach house was "the sonnet form of American architecture," writes Alastair Gordon. "This was where the revolution began." In his gracefully written, stunningly illustrated book, he shows how the evolution of [... more]
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Fancy Pants
Worth the price for one joke: My all time favorite movie joke, "Three Against a Thousand" is told beautifully by Bob Hope in this 1950 western. He has several very nice vaudeville scenes especially near the beginning of the movie. When he [... more]
CDN$11.99
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Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the ...
From Amazon.com: The Hamptons, that famous string of beachside hamlets in New York State, are not just a quiet vacation spot for New England blue bloods like the duPonts and Vanderbilts. According to Steven Gaines, the author of a spate of "untold& [... more]
CDN$25.50
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To The Manor Born - The Complete Series
Some are born great, some achieve greatness...: 'To the Manor Born' is one of the better Brit-coms, witty and intelligent without being over-the-top or inaccessible. It has an oh-so-British tone to it, deliberately so, as it looks with grace and humour [... more]
CDN$94.90
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Some Buried Caesar
Wolfe in the wilds of upstate New York: If you're interested in an audio edition, the unabridged narration by Michael Pritchard is good. The title is taken from a poem, "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam". Some bad blood between Wolfe and another [... more]
CDN$9.99
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Not only was Molly Brown unsinkable, so is the musical based on her amazing life. Released in 1964, The Unsinkable Molly Brown gave Debbie Reynolds one of her most memorable roles and earned her an Academy Award nomination (she lost to [... more]
CDN$24.98
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Devil's Waltz: An Alex Delaware Novel
WHAT AM I MISSING?: This is my first Alex Delaware novel and I don't understand why Kellerman has such a following. While I found the premise of the story, Munchausen by proxy, interesting, I was frustrated by the overwriting. Take a hundred and fifty [... more]
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A Much Married Man
We made a pledge - you accepted my dare": This monumental and chaotic novel is a sort of satirical testament to the endurance of the British spirit and also a wry and witty tale about the English way of life that will surely be Anglophile's delight. [... more]
CDN$25.99
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Appassionata
Jilly Cooper's best ever!: I LOVED this book and laughed all the way through! I have no musical talent, but I wanted to run away and join this mad, mad but very lovable underdog orchestra! I love you normally Jilly but....: Oh Jilly - I just love most [... more]
CDN$16.02
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Charles II: The Last Rally
A Unique Interpretation of the Restoration King: I've read several biographies of Charles II, the best of them Antonia Fraser's, with Stephen Coote's more recent Royal Survivor much less so. Almost all treat their subject as intelligent, but lazy, at [... more]
CDN$37.95
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Barry Lyndon
From Amazon.com: In 1975 the world was at Stanley Kubrick's feet. His films Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, released in the previous dozen years, had provoked rapture and consternation--not merely in the film community, [... more]
CDN$18.70
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Variety Lights (Full Screen)
From Amazon.com: Federico Fellini codirected this film from his own story about a romance between an ambitious young dancer and the aging manager of a variety theater in Rome. It's a sharply realized first effort, showing that Fellini could work his [... more]
CDN$49.99
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