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In the suburbs of middle America, two men engage in a growing political and social media fight. Their passionate disagreement, though superficially focused on politics, is fed by assumptions about class, economics, immigration, race, and the legacy of a horrific sexual crime. Ultimately the feud leads to violence and tragedy for both families.
343) Blood feud
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Tells a story about how the protagonist and a couple of poker buddies squared off against the very legions of Hell... and maybe even saved the world.
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A desperate solution for a troubled country: Lex Luthor for President, with the Justice League in the service of the government. Only Batman and Superman stand against the new regime - and their disloyalty proves to be exactly what Luthor intended. Using their outcast status to instigate a scandal against Superman, Luthor finally tastes a victory in his vendetta against the Man of Steel.
345) Manṣib shāghir
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Arabic
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Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems. And an empty seat left on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in...
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"Rival dorms on an extravagant island campus fight a schoolyard war, but can two star-crossed lovers keep their budding relationship a secret? ... Whereto I Have Invited Many a Guest: Dahlia Academy's second-year class--Black Doggies and White Cats alike--has arrived in the Principality of West for their joint class trip. From Hasuki getting lost, to Inuzuka finding himself on a risky mission to sneak into the girls' bath, the trip is fraught with...
347) Buchanan rides alone
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Scott finds himself in an incredibly corrupt border town and ends up in the middle of a blood feud between two families -- neither of which trusts him.
348) Romeo and Juliet
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A 1954 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title: the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
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Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Rich and strange: Adapted by Hitchcock, his wife Alma, and Val...
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Algunas jovenes se casan por dinero y posicion social, y unas pocas afortunadas lo hacen por amor, pero Tiffany Warren va a casarse para poner fin a una enemistad. Respetando los deseos de su madre, Tiffany viaja a reganadientes hacia el Oeste para conocer a un padre al que nunca ha visto, y al hijo mayor de su enemigo, el ranchero Hunter Callahan. Una vez los Warrens y los Callahans se unan por matrimonio, ambas familias dejaran de pelear por una...
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Underworld: Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the lycans, a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the balance of power between them turns even bloodier when a beautiful young vampire warrior and a newly turned lycan with a mysterious past fall in love.
Underworld, evolution: Traces the beginnings of the ancient feud...
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"A story made all the more shocking because it's true. In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murder four family members and burn their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders. The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two...
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In the castle town of Midland, a new king has come to power through treachery and violence. His demonic agents victimize the citizens, until one night, a mysterious warrior comes to destroy them. Known as the black sordsman, he has long held an unrelenting grudge against the king. Before the twilight of midland, a young mercenary named Guts fights for his fortune on the front lines. There he meets Griffith, who is charismatic, graceful, and deadly....
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Dog Man volume 9
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Polish
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"The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?"--Provided by publisher
Tym razem Dogman naprawdę narozrabiał! Burmistrz ma dość jego wybryków. Dogman oddaje odznakę i zabiera swoje rzeczy ale chociaż właśnie zostaje bez pracy, nie traci jeszcze nadziei. Czy z pomocą przyjaciół Dogmanowi...
358) El 7° Dia
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Español
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In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jimenez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence. The matriarch of one of two feuding clans presses her family to avenge real and imagined injustices. Based on events which took place in Puerto Hurraco, a village in Benquerencia de la Serena municipality in the Province of Badajoz, Spain on August 26, 1990.
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"This much-anticipated Norton Critical Edition of Shakespeare's best-known play is based on the Second Quarto, widely agreed to be the most authoritative early text. By carefully selecting extracts from sources, scholars, and scriptwriters, Gordon McMullan tells a series of stories about Romeo and Juliet, globally and from their legend's origins to the present day. The Norton Critical Edition includes: Introductory materials and explanatory annotations...
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"Rival dorms on an extravagant island campus fight a schoolyard war, but can two star-crossed lovers keep their budding relationship a secret? ... At long last, star-crossed lovers Inuzuka and Persia are only one step away from becoming head prefects and tearing down the proverbial wall between the Black Doggy and White Cat dorms. That is, until rival candidate Reon Inugami drops one heck of a last-minute election surprise in front of the entire student...