Dylan Baker
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The high-octane thriller that inspired the Academy Award-winning film. On a sinking cruise ship, passengers fight rising water-and each other-to survive. On its maiden voyage, luxury ocean liner SS Poseidon is capsized by a massive undersea earthquake. A handful of survivors must fight for their lives-struggling to make it from the upper deck of the ship to the hull, the only part above water, before the ship sinks. Faced with rising water and the...
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The inspirational account of a team rising to meet the ultimate challenge of winning back its honor. To Oxford University, "The Boat Race"--An annual rowing competition between Oxford and its archrival Cambridge - is more important than the Olympics. So when Oxford's long winning streak ends in humiliating defeat, they vow victory the next year at all costs. But the method they choose threatens to tear the team apart while setting up a struggle between...
63) The stone angel
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At 90, Hagar Shipley may be considered old, but she hasn't stopped fighting. As her son and daughter-in-law take her to a nursing home, Hagar resists and remembers a lifetime of boldness and courage.
64) Miss Sloane
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In the world of political power brokers, Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
66) Happiness
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A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection. Includes illicit sexual behavior.
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John Lyshitski likes to steal cars, has a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows the entire population of both staff and cons by name. Cursed with being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's a repeat offender who has been deemed a lost cause. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides...
68) Outpost
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A woman seeks recovery from a violent assault by taking a job as a fire lookout but is overwhelmed by her isolation and tragic past.
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In June of 2002, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, at knifepoint, from her own bedroom in Salt Lake City. On TV, the tired faces of Ed and Lois Smart, plead for the return of their daughter. Reveals never-before-seen details of the true story of an ordinary family forced to endure their worst nightmare. Within hours of the abduction, the Smart family was thrown into the national spotlight. When Elizabeth was found alive, no one could have predicted she...
70) Lock out
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Released after 20 years in prison, ex-con Charlie Sundstrom returns to his hometown to find his estranged son, who has disappeared into the criminal underworld, is being hunted by a ruthless gang leader. Charlie enlists the help of a rogue corrections officer to help in the search. But the CO has a tragic past of his own. Soon their desperate lives will clash in a game-changing climax.
72) How to deal
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For Halley Martin, nothing is going according to her plan. Her sister just got engaged to the wrong guy, her crazy grandmother has moved in, her parents split up, and then she meets a guy. To top off Halley's senior year in high school, her best friend finds out she is pregnant. Now Halley is going to have to learn a hard lesson - how to deal.
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A modern day, alternate-reality drama about a hero who rises to become the King of his nation, based on the biblical story of King David. King Silas Benjamin rules the kingdom of Gilboa with steely determination unmatched by any rival. During a tense battle with the neighboring nation of Gath, David Shepherd, an idealistic young soldier from the countryside, heroically crosses over dangerous enemy lines and rescues a coveted prisoner of war, the son...
74) Flash Boys
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2015 Audie Award Finalist for Nonfiction
From the #1 bestselling author of The Blind Side and Moneyball
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that,...
From the #1 bestselling author of The Blind Side and Moneyball
Four years after his #1 bestseller The Big Short, Michael Lewis returns to Wall Street to report on a high-tech predator stalking the equity markets.
Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that,...
75) 23 blast
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High school football star Travis Freeman finds himself at a crossroads when he is suddenly stricken with total and irreversible blindness. He must choose whether to limit his life due to his impairment or to continue playing high school football in his hometown of Corbin, Kentucky.
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Odessa Cotter, is a quiet, dignified woman who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson. When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband, and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights.
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A league of their own: In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.
Rudy: Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre...
78) Confirmation
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Look behind the curtain of Washington politics, depicting the explosive 1991 Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination hearings where Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment. The hearings brought the country to a standstill and became a pivotal moment in American culture forever changing how people perceive and experience workplace equality and gender politics.
79) Falling bodies
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An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics. Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically prove that the universe is governed by specific laws, can explain why planes fly and how matter interacts....