Contact

It is December 1999, the dawn of the millennium, and a team of international scientists is poised for the most fantastic adventure in human history. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, this team believes they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. 

Looking at Love: With Guy De Maupassant

Here is a delightful collection of 15 tales by that superb master of the short story, Guy de Maupassant. With an unusual insight into romance and sexual encounters, Maupassant makes the incredible, quite believable. get ready for an eye-opening look at men and women who are not at all like those nice folks next door. 2 cassettes.