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41) Into The Wild
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After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
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Romanzo Criminale volume 6
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Italiano
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The gang members are thrown in jail after the police find evidence linking them to the Baron's murder, and rumours begin to spread of a traitor in their midst.
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Romanzo Criminale volume 11
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Italiano
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The nephew of the gang's former associate Puma is murdered, and Lebano grows increasingly paranoid when he learns that members of his group have been operating a loans racket and selling drugs without his consent.
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We've surely arrived at an age where cashing in on people's innocence and naivety has been a source of livelihood for some people. Such that they're willing to consume a standup man, ripping him apart from all the hard-earned living he earned for his children. The story encapsulates the life of the author's foremost support; a determined man, who ventured along the ambition of living up only for his children. Her father, despite living a star-spangled...
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Groundhog Day meets Ling Ma's Severance in End of the World House, a thought-provoking comedic novel about two young women trying to save their friendship as the world collapses around them.
Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school. Bertie is a semi-failed cartoonist, working for a prominent Silicon Valley tech firm. Her job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move from San Francisco to Los...
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Russian
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In 218 BC, Hannibal led his army with 27 elephants across the Alps to attack the Romans. Eleven years before this historic event, on the banks of a river near Carthage, North Africa, one of his elephants pulled a drowning girl out of rough waters. Thus began Liada's epic journey with an elephant named Obolus.
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Razor-sharp wit inflames a competitive game of survival in the salons of 17th century France where, in this world of "finest appearances," one man's blunt honesty shatters his society's delicate web of manners. Often considered to be Molière's Hamlet, The Misanthrope is a wickedly scathing satire. Translated by Richard Wilbur. A Court Theatre co-production.
An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:
Harry Althaus as Acaste
Amy...
48) Evelyn
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Based on the true story of Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan), who after losing his job and watching his wife leave the country with another man, has his children taken away by an arcane custody law. Doyle cleans up his act and wages an unlikely legal battle to regain custody.
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Studio City volume 2
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English
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Sam's Hearts on Fire character gets a new storyline and a surprise guest star, but he gets a dose of reality when he goes to a meeting with Max.
50) Celine
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English
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Keeping her private life out of the public eye for years, Céline Dion's personal life is finally revealed! Plastic surgery, torrid love affairs and internal struggles - this unauthorized biography tells the romantic and troubled rags-toriches story of the pop diva.
51) Crazy Sorrow
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A lyrical novel, spanning four decades in New York City, about a couple torn apart and the lengths to which they will go to be reunited.
Vince Passaro's first novel, 2002's Violence, Nudity, Adult Content, was a provocative book that explored the darkest human emotions and the traumas of mental illness, sexual assault, and murder. Now, nearly twenty years later, Passaro is back with his follow-up, Crazy Sorrow, a novel that is equally explosive and...
52) The Bee Eaters
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English
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Peter, a naive young boy living in the countryside, will find out that his kindness will be wrongly interpreted and soon his hometown will turn against him. Under offer for North America.
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A gorgeous, critically acclaimed debut novel about a young woman coming of age with a dazzling yet damaged mother who lived and loved in extremes.
A prizewinning tour de force when it was published in France, Violaine Huisman's remarkable debut novel is about a daughter's inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too...
54) Molly Maxwell
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Molly Maxwell (Lola Tash), 16, feels decidedly ordinary in her private school world filled with prodigies, talented youngsters and unique individuals. With her family and friends eagerly waiting to see what Molly will excel at, she finds she can't commit to anything for fear she'll fail and let everyone down.
55) Wildflower
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Reese Witherspoon stars in this inspiring drama from director Diane Keaton as a a teenager who befriends a young, partially deaf epileptic girl who is abused by her stepfather.
56) Almost Famous
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A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies it on their concert tour.
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English
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A spirited Brooklyn teenager copes with life in the projects, sustained by her fierce desire to go to college and become a doctor. Just Another Girl On The I.R.T is a sharp, sassy blend of comedy and drama in the tradition of Spike Lee, that speaks with a fresh voice all its own.
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Romanzo Criminale volume 5
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Italiano
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Lebano leads his associates on a brutal campaign to wipe out their rivals in Rome - but after forming an alliance with the Sicilian mafia, they become entangled in a terrorist plot to kidnap one of Italy's most senior politicians
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Romanzo Criminale volume 2
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Italiano
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Ice decides to reinvest the ransom money, but a bungled burial threatens to exposes the gang's plans - and the future looks even bleaker when Lebanese storms out of a meeting with a criminal kingpin
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Romanzo Criminale volume 7
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Italiano
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Lebano and the gang are freed from prison and set about taking down rival gangster Terrible, who proves to be a difficult opponent.
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