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Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.
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"Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming 'opposites attract' comedy romp. A breezy newspaper reporter and a no-nonsense fashion buyer share a nasty case of hate at first sight. But he takes a second look when she goes from grim to glamorous in one magical afternoon at Elizabeth Arden's Beauty Salon. Will l'amour triumph?"--Container.
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Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
6) The note
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Following a tragic plane crash, newspaper columnist Peyton MacGruder discovers a note that was from one of the passengers onboard. She sets on a quest to find the person for whom it was intended, and discovers the life it will change is her own.
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"Summer 1939. Harry, a translator at the British Embassy in Warsaw, is falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia. When German tanks roll into Poland, and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia face terrible choices. With her life in grave danger, can Harry help her, and if he can, how will he ever explain himself to Lois Bennett, the girl he left behind in Manchester?"--Container.
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Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards, which currently holds a 9.0 rating on IMDB. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
10) Loving Pablo
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At one point in time, Pablo Escobar was a nefarious and yet beloved man of Columbia. Although, all men have a soft side to a woman. This gritty crime drama follows a journalist who followed and believed in the most wanted man by the United States. Not only did she fall in love with the man, but she fell in love with the monster who wanted to control every aspect in his life, including hers.
11) Hangman
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A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.
13) Pray for rain
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Young New York journalist Emma Gardner returns to the idyllic Central California farming community where she was raised, only to find it has been ravaged by drought and has become a place ruled by gangs, violent threats, and greed. She is forced to investigate the suspicious circumstances of her father's death even though it puts her in great danger.
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Dater's handbook: Cass, a successful businesswoman who is unsuccessful in her personal life, tries the dater's handbook.
When sparks fly: A big city journalist is sent back to her small hometown to write a story.
Royal hearts: Kelly's father inherits an estate in a faraway land. Upon arriving, they discover that Hank also inherited the title of King.
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In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers an extraordinary glimpse into the life of a uniquely American...
16) Bombshell
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Follows three women who stand up against sexual harassment by Fox News head Roger Ailes.
17) Borgen: Season 2
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In this second season of Denmark's blockbuster political drama, viewers continue to follow the country's first female Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg, her cynical spin doctor, Kasper Juul, the ambitious journalist, Katrine Fn̜smark and her more seasoned colleague, Hanne Holm. Birgitte has been Denmark's Prime Minister for two years - years that have taken their toll on her private life. She must now balance her role as PM with that of divorced single...
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It takes a behind-the-scenes look at a high-rated cable-news program at the fictional ACN Network, focusing on the on-and off-camera lives of its acerbic anchor, new executive producer, their newsroom staff and their news-division boss. Overcoming a tumultuous first day together, climaxing in a newsflash that a BP oil rig has just exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the team sets out on a patriotic if quixotic mission to ₁do the news well₂ in the...
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Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed,...