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562) Way down East
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A poor country girl is tricked into a fake marriage and has an illegitimate child who dies. After starting a new life, her past is exposed and she is evicted into a blizzard.
563) She's too young
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Trish is a suburban mom who is stunned to find that her 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, is part of a group where casual sex is the norm. Trish becomes even more shocked to discover the town's indifference toward the problem. In order to keep her daughter safe, this is a fight Trish cannot afford to lose.
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As season 5 kicks off, Lauren gets the ultimate surprise when Stephani brings Heidi to her birthday party. Will realizing that their friend may never be what it once was, as long as Spencer is still in the picture, keep Lauren and Heidi apart for good? Heidi thought Spencer was ready to grow up when he called off their quickie marriage to give her a dream wedding. But when a guys' night out ends with Spencer hitting on a beautiful bartender and beating...
565) Carmen Jones
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This is a familiar archetypal story, which is exactly where its appeal lies. Relocated to a Southern military base, Joe is a soldier about to leave for flying school, planning to marry his longtime sweetheart Cindy Lou before he goes. But free-spirited parachute packer Carmen interferes, when Joe is tasked with delivering her to jail after she gets into a vicious fight with another woman. This begins their stormy romance, and ends with Joe AWOL, the...
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Disc 1: Other men's women: Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured. The purchase price: Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance...
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"Grace is a cross-generational book written by thirty-five courageous women between the ages of 29-95 years old. Each contributor writes heartfelt letters to the hurt little girl or young woman they once were. As they reflected on the moments and experiences that changed the trajectory of their lives, it was clear that they would have to face past trauma and dig into wounds that had long been healed. The letters are filled with wisdom and advice they...
570) Affairs of the heart: Series one :classic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
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Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
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From the #1 Best-Selling Publisher of Girl, Get Off the Couch & Chronicles of A Single Mama Jesus, Coffee, and Prayer Christian Publishing House presents The Q.U.E.E.N Xperience Guide to Playing Your Royal Position if work, eat, sleep and repeat sounds like the broken record of your life then Queen, run Not walk & GRAB this book! Sis let me tell you a little secret...You were born to sparkle, shine, and POP- leaving a shimmery substance on the heels...
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For centuries the Qu'ran has been interpreted by men to suppress women, but in fact when it was written it represented an enlightened approach to women. Renowned Muslim feminist scholars and journalists, including Asra Q. Nomani, Mona Eltahawy, Azadeh Moaveni, Dr. Amina Wadud, Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl and Asma Gull Hasan, detail how from early on very different understandings of the Qu'ran lead to vastly different translations, with enormous repercussions...
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"Todo lo resuelve, siempre está dispuesta y para ella nada es imposible: Doña Huevotes se encarga de tener orden en la casa, acepta las cargas más duras del trabajo y enfrenta los problemas más graves de la familia. Pero también sufre, se enferma y cae, aunque evita expresar su dolor. Pero... ¿quién es Doña Huevotes? ¿Por qué actúa así? ¿Qué deseos, rencores, anhelos guarda? ¿Es feliz o soporta todo con tal de demostrar que es la mejor?...
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"Congratulations! This big world is now yours to explore and conquer. And it costs money. Together we'll walk through some really big and important life-changing decisions you will soon face from paying off student loans, switching jobs, buying a house, getting married, commingling your finances, having a baby, giving up your career (or not) to be a full-time mom, and what to do if tragedy strikes. Money is at the heart of these decisions and experiences....
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We live in a time of unprecedented opportunity for women. Yet despite centuries of progress, true equality remains out of reach. What will it take to bring us to a tipping point? To leadership expert and social entrepreneur Claudia Chan, the key is shifting to a "me for we" mindset, where individuals root their effort in a mission far bigger than personal success, and getting everyone--women and men--to work together for social change. By lifting...
577) Senso
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Criterion collection volume 556
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Italiano
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In Venice, during the spring of 1866, it is the last month of the Austrian occupation of the Veneto. The Italian government has forged a pact with Prussia, and another war of liberation in the ongoing Risorgimento is imminent. Countess Livia Serpieri, unloved by her collaborator-husband but sympathetic to the cause of freedom espoused by her patriotic cousin Roberto, meets Austrian officer Franz Mahler as she begs him to call off a duel with Roberto....
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The terminator: In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Ex machina: Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a...
580) Slither
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"[A] movie with as many zany people and events as a road map has destinations. A road movie on its zigzag route involving the search for a tucked-away stash of cash; a house blown to kingdom come; a pill-popping, short-shorted wanderer packing heat; amiable ne'er-do-wells looking to do better as they steer a muscle car towing a silver Airstream, plus trailing villains in ominous black vans, a diner stick-up, beach towns, farm towns, a war veterans'...