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Studio City volume 8
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English
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Difficult decisions are made as reflections come to light. Doc (Emmy winner Tristan Rogers) makes his wishes known in Violet's absence.
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Studio City volume 5
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English
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After weeks of unrest with Doc, Laurie asks Sam for help in hopes of changing his mind. Gloria keeps the cast and crew on edge.
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English
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Mystic in the Forest : Aries Journey: has achieved a remarkable feat by being as Top #10 best seller in three of Amazon's categories.
#2 Best Seller ★ in Teen & Young Adult Adventure & Adventurers eBooks (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
#2 Best Seller ★ in Teen & Young Adult Travel Fiction eBooks (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
#3 Best Seller ★ in Mystery Literary Criticism (Kindle Store) (February 22, 2024)
In the shadows of our reality,...
25) The Conformist
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Italiano
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In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class...
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English
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An alcoholic, falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. The drama depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage due to alcoholism as ambitious ad man Joe Clay (Robertson) gets his wife Kristen to join him in drinking bouts that soon begin to destroy their lives...This is the highly acclaimed 1958 live TV version.
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Studio City volume 6
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English
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Tensions rise on the set of Hearts on Fire as Gloria and Sam clash over scripts. Bryan receives important news.
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Studio City volume 2
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English
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Gloria spars with the network to keep Hearts of Fire from being canceled. Jacob makes a shifty move to take control.
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English
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A gang led by banker Calvin Drake plans to drive off ranchers from their land to profit from a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.
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English
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Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman’s midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China, for fans of Yiyun Li and Julie Otsuka.
The Funeral Cryer long ago accepted the mundane realities of her life: avoided by fellow villagers because of the stigma attached to her job and underappreciated by her husband, whose fecklessness has pushed the couple close to the brink of breakup. But just when things couldn't...
31) Eyeless in Gaza
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English
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Though somewhat overshadowed by Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, Huxley's modernist novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936) is often regarded as his finest work. The writer and historian Simon Heffer dubbed it, unequivocally, 'his only great novel.'
The plot centres on Anthony Beavis, a dilettante social theorist, a man inclined to recoil from life. The pleasures of the physical world disgust him and the universe of ideas is but a poor refuge....
33) Rain
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English
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A boat arrives carrying two couples, the Davidsons (who are missionaries), the MacPhails and a prostitute named Sadie Thompson gets stranded on the island due to a possible Cholera outbreak on-board. Sadie spends her time "partying" with the American soldiers stationed on the island. The Preacher, Alfred Davidson soon becomes unhinged and thus begins a series of surprising events which culminate in disaster.
34) Anna Lucasta
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English
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When wild child Anna Lucasta (Eartha Kitt), is banished from the family home by her self-righteous father, she falls into prostitution and into the arms of streetwise sailor Danny Johnson (Sammy Davis, Jr.). But after she shocks them all by finally finding her true love with a young suitor, her unforgiving father sets a vengeful plan in motion to remind his daughter of her sordid past.
38) Blank Canvas
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English
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A 40-something-year-old man rediscovers himself when he's kicked out of his sister's house and forced to live in his brother's apartment with no electricity.
39) Marty
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English
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Marty Pilletti, (Rod Steiger) is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers & sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl & get married. However, he has low esteem & feels no one wants him...That all changes at a dance where he meets Clara, (Nancy Marchand, of "The Sopranos" fame).
40) The Almost Truth
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English
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When Alina's son, Fin, traces his long-absent birthfather, it's the catalyst for decades of secrets to implode in Alina's neatly ordered life. With the sudden appearance of Rory, and the ever-present pull of a very different life in Bangladesh, she's left reeling.
Three relationships, all of them built on half-truths. All Alina can truly be sure of, is that you can choose your family, you just can't choose who they will turn out to be.
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