Michael Sheen
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English
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Previously successful manager Brian Clough takes over England's top football club Leeds United. His abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous manager Don Revie and how much he is missing his usual right-hand man, Peter Taylor, who decided to loyally stay with Brighton & Hove Albion.
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English
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Slaughterhouse is an elite boarding school where boys and girls are groomed for power and greatness, and they're about to meet their match. This ancient and ordered world is about to be shaken to its foundations, literally. When a controversial frack site on prize school woodland causes seismic tremors, a mysterious sinkhole unleashes an unspeakable horror. Soon a new pecking order will be established as pupils, teachers and the school matron become...
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English
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Underworld: A beautiful vampire warrior is entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with a werewolf who longs for the war to end.
Underworld, Evolution: Vampire warrior Selena and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them.
Underworld, Rise of the Lycans: An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between...
64) John Keats
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Language
English
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Description
Douglas Dodge modulates his voice beautifully to capture the slightly varied emotions of many poems. This well-edited recording contains Keats's most famous works: 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci,' 'The Eve of St. Agnes,' 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 'On a Grecian Urn,' along with many lesser-known short poems such as 'To Mrs. Reynolds' Cat' that exhibit the poet's more fanciful side. Library Journal
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Mariah Mundi's life is turned upside down when his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped. Following a trail of clues to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, Mariah discovers a hidden realm of child-stealing monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth, but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of his world, and his family, at stake, Mariah will risk everything to unravel...
67) The deal
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Miriam collection volume 6
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English
Description
A look at Tony Blair's rise to power, and the rivalry he faced against his mentor and current Prime Minister to the U.K., Gordon Brown.
70) Home Again
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English
Description
Life for a single mom in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn when she allows three young guys to move in with her.
73) Wilde
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Language
English
Description
Notorious poet and playwright Oscar Wilde devours all that life has to offer, but there's only so much that late Victorian England will tolerate. As Wilde delves into a taboo world of homosexual desire, his life rapidly becomes a turbulent charade. He cannot escape the repercussions wrought by a "pure" society, nor will he hide in shame for being true to his nature.
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English
Description
Underworld: A beautiful and aristocratic vampire named Selene falls in love with a Lycan, a werewolf, whose people are involved in an ancient war with the vampires.
Underworld evolution: "Picking up directly from the previous film, vampire warrior Selena and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them." -- IMDb.
76) This new noise
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English
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[Public Service Broadcasting was] "asked to write a special piece in recognition of the centenary of the BBC; not only to write it, but to play it with a group of musicians as talented as the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the guidance of conductor Jules Buckley, performed at the Royal Albert Hall. As a group, we've often tackled big subjects before, but there's something uniquely intimidating about trying to reflect, in musical form, all of the BBC's...
77) Underworld
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English
Description
A war has been raging between the Vampires and the Lycans for centuries. Selene is a vampire Death Dealer who finds out that the Lycans have plans to capture Michael. As Selene begins to track Michael, she becomes more convinced that the Lycans are planning an attack against the Death Dealers. The vampire kingpin, Kraven, is certain the Lycans do not have that kind of intelligence. As Selene shadows Michael, she finds herself wanting to protect him,...
79) Mary Reilly
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English
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"The classic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde gets a chilling new twist when seen through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll's devoted maid. [It] takes terror to a new level as the immortal conflict between good and evil is played out in the soul of one man. Equally attracted to her kind employer, Dr. Jekyll, and his mysterious assistant, Mr. Hyde, Mary Reilly must confront her own dangerous desires if she is to survive humanity's greatest evil"--Container....