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43) The dirty dozen
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English
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A U.S. Army major trains a violent group of criminals for a bizarre and difficult combat assignment in occupied France during World War II.
51) Papla
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Polish
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Lizzie Nichols discovers that her inability to keep her mouth shut has landed her in hot water when she aggravates her unfaithful boyfriend, is stranded in London, and takes a job as a bartender for a catered wedding at a French chateau. Lizzie falls in love with the owner of the chateau, but once again her mouth gets her in trouble.
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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, independent American traveling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe. Her story is here accompanied by six more riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been...