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Brighter Days Ahead: Utopian Novels
Classics - St. Charles Public Library
HPL Irish Authors 2024
Brighter Days Ahead: Utopian Novels
Classics - St. Charles Public Library
HPL Irish Authors 2024
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Gulliver's Travels tells of the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, an Englishman and ship's surgeon, who travels to the "several remote nations of the world." In the beginning, he becomes shipwrecked in the land of Lilliput, where the distressed inhabitants are only six inches tall. His second voyage takes him to Brobdingnag, where lives a race of giants. At Glubdubdrib, the Island of Sorcerers, he speaks with great men of the past and learns from...
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As Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who doesn't like guns, Stewart is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck. Though reluctant to undertake such an enormous task, he's soon roped into action after meeting the seductive Frenchy (Dietrich), an alluring saloon girl who belts out unforgettable show-stoppers like "The Boys in the Back Room, " while winning the hero's heart.
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Lightning is the quick-drawing marshal of Silver City who intents to capture a gang of ruthless claim jumpers that have been terrorizing and murdering local silver miners. He deputizes Silver Kid to help bring the outlaws to justice. Their plans are complicated when a beautiful new lady in town uses the marshal for her own dangerous agenda.
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A loner and his sidekick try to get rich quick by selling a herd of cattle at a fancy price during the wild gold ruch days in Yukon Territory. They soon get caught up in a conflict with the local self-appointed lawman and his claim jumping henchmen which ultimately ends in a guns-blazing finale.
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This time, The Stranger mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail.
10) The rare breed
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A cowhand must deliver a Hereford bull to a Scottish cattle baron looking to create a new breed.
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Kate Maxwell, a popular saloon owner, is caught between her feelings for suave cattleman Jim and the town's easygoing sheriff. But there's plenty about Jim that Kate doesn't know, and by the time she finds out the truth, both she and the town are in grave danger. Now Kate and the sheriff have to battle overwhelming odds to set things right.
12) Shenandoah
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A Virginia farmer during the Civil War refuses to support either the Confederacy or the Union until his son is taken prisoner and, seeing the horrors of war first-hand, he is forced at last to take his stand.
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A plains drifter cowboy single-handedly rescues a local nun from a gang of attackers. After meeting a band of Mexican revolutionaries who are resisting the French occupation of Mexico, the cowboy and Sister Sara decide to join forces with the freedom fighters and set off on a deadly mission to capture the enemy's garrison. But along the way the soft spoken hero discovers that the nun is not what she seems.
14) The war wagon
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Taw Jackson is a rancher who is dead set on capturing an iron-clad stagecoach belonging to cattle baron West Catlin, the man who stole his fortune and good name years before. To pull off the heist, Jackson puts together a crew that includes an old character, a half-civilized Indian, a young drunk, and a cocky gunfighter. Includes production notes and original theatrical trailer.
15) Winchester '73
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Lin McAdam, an engaging frontiersman, attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a crazed highwayman, an immoral gunrunner, a young Indian chief, and McAdam's own murderous brother.
17) The plainsman
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This stylish western skillfully interweaves classic real-life old west legends like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill Cody, George Armstrong Custer and Abraham Lincoln into a stunning tale as vast as the wild frontier itself.
18) The Spoilers
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Two adventurers in the Yukon quarrel over land rights and the town's sexiest saloon girl. Cherry Mallotte must choose between the honest captain and the charming-but-no-good kingpin.
19) War arrow
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Army Major Howell Brady is sent to end a Kiowa uprising in Texas. He must find a way to save the fort as well as win over the beautiful widow of a murdered cavalry officer. As he recruits and trains rival warriors from the local Seminole tribe to help defeat the Kiowas, he must also compete with an army colonel for the widow's affections.
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