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1) Vengeance
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A journalist and podcaster from New York City attempts to solve the murder of a girl he hooked up with and travels down to Texas to investigate the circumstances of her death and discover what happened to her.
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Satire is a genre of literature where vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings in humans and their institutions are held up to ridicule with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into reform. While satire is generally meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is generally constructive social criticism.
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The Second Anthology'' is the second anthology of screenplays based on Dianna Diverno's novel. There are three anthologies of screenplays, a total of 60 screenplays for movies and animated movies for children. Screenplays : White Fox, Kill With Style, Cruiser, Revenge - Blood For Blood, Forbidden Love 2, Lady With One Dollar...
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The First Anthology'' is the first anthology of screenplays based on Dianna Diverno's novels. There are three anthologies of screenplays, a total of 60 screenplays for movies and animated movies for children. Screenplays : Samba To Death, King Of The Mermaids, Last Wedding, Mirror Of The Night, Fang...
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Step Into the Eyes of Darkness, where Miles Clifford is in his adolescence. After a fatal car accident has cost him his family, Miles' life is in shackles and in ruins. He must break free from these chains and change his destiny. Now, Miles must navigate through fear and respect to get a piece of dignity or a piece of dominance!!!
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"Menckorley: Success on the brink of destiny" is an intense narrative that delves into the complex worlds of entrepreneurship and criminality, intertwining the fate of its characters in a web of challenges, passions, and crucial choices. George Menckorley, a charismatic and determined financial tycoon, sees his life and corporate empire threatened when the headquarters of his company, Apex, is invaded by a gang in search of a valuable ruby. The compelling...
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Showing diversity is the best way to undermine the negative stereotyping of Jewish people. The five plays in this book illustrate why stereotypes of any description don't work.
In Shylock Revisited, the main character won't give up his efforts to make the merchant of Venice, Antonio, pay what he owes. In "Good Deeds" a screen writer, Salka Viertel, pays the price for helping Nazi era Jewish artists escape from Europe.
Harry Houdini takes on...
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Poland, Autumn 1942. Entire communities were guided by their rabbis to come to the local train station and board cattle trains which the rabbis said would take them to Auschwitz, a work camp ready with a local synagogue. The Tiktinski family, like others, entered into a fierce debate: to believe the rabbi? To board the train? The persistent rumors leaked the truth -- a horrible death ahead. The members of the family, all real people, the family...
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Book of illustrations is a trilogy and a classic Greek Tragedy by Euripides. Euripides was a tragedian of old Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three archaic Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived the passage of time through the ages. Excerpt:
"All her prayers and eager callings
On the tender name of Father,
All her young and maiden freshness,
They but set at naught, those rulers,
In their passion for the battle.
And...
14) The Boss's Son
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Madrid 1959.
Ignacio Gómez, son of Boss Fernando Gómez, the most feared man in the entire capital, has always lived in constant conflict with his father, who tried in every way to keep him out of his shady dealings, but the young thirty-year-old hungry for money and beautiful women he managed in a few years to build his empire and gradually outclass Fernando's business. After his father's death during an assassination attempt on the Álvarez...
15) Pandatage
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Pandas sind manchmal die besseren Väter.
Ein Glückspilz war Danny noch nie, aber seit seine Frau bei einem Unfall ums Leben gekommen ist, läuft gar nichts mehr glatt. Sein kleiner Sohn Will hat aufgehört zu sprechen, Danny verliert seinen Job, und als ihm auch noch sein Vermieter mit Rausschmiss droht, kauft er von seiner letzten Barschaft ein Pandakostüm, um als Tanzbär Geld zu verdienen. Anfangs macht sich Danny vor allen Dingen lächerlich,...
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Eine junge Frau und die Herausforderung ihres Lebens
1961: Als die Berliner Lehrerin Helene ihre neue Stelle in Hessen an der deutsch-deutschen Grenze antritt, begegnet man ihr im ländlichen, erzkatholischen Ort zunächst mit Ablehnung. Der althergebrachte drakonische Erziehungsstil, die Gleichgültigkeit der Kollegen - für die engagierte Helene ist es ein Kampf gegen Windmühlen. In Tobias, dem Landarzt, findet sie schließlich einen Verbündeten....
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"Als Kind habe ich Leute mit großen Familien beneidet."
Wenn vier Menschen um einen Tisch sitzen, dann ist Maxim Leos Berliner Familie schon fast vollzählig versammelt. Die vielen anderen Leos, die in den 1930er-Jahren aus der Stadt flohen, waren immer fern, über den ganzen Erdball verstreut. Zu ihnen macht er sich auf, trifft zum ersten Mal Onkel und Tanten, findet Tagebücher, Briefe, Fotos und entdeckt seine verschwundene Familie. Maxim Leos...
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Zoe, Künstlerin und Yoga-Expertin, flüchtet aus Kalifornien nach Frankreich. Martin, Technikfreak aus England, will den von ihm entwickelten Wanderkarren für Rückengeschädigte einem Praxistest unterziehen. Als sie sich auf dem Jakobsweg begegnen, sind sie erst mal ganz schön genervt voneinander. Aber schräge Reisegefährten, Wetter- und Seelenkatastrophen und die Kapriolen des Wanderkarrens schweißen zusammen. Werden Martin und Zoe, grundverschieden...
19) Die Bücherfrauen
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Drei Frauen, die aus den Trümmern einer Katastrophe eine neue Gemeinschaft errichten
Eine Krise führt Angelina zurück an den magischen Ort ihrer Kindheit in Kansas. Dort begegnet sie zwei Frauen, die wie sie an einem Wendepunkt stehen: Traci, eine junge Künstlerin, und Gayle, die durch einen Tornado alles verloren hat. Schnell werden die drei füreinander unentbehrlich und entwickeln eine Schaffenskraft, die sie zu etwas ganz Neuem führt.
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Der zweite Band der Bestseller-Serie "Die Wunderfrauen": Vier starke Frauen zwischen Wirtschaftswunder und Hippiezeit, zwischen Nylons und Emanzipation, zwischen Liebe und Freundschaft.
Zu Beginn der 1960er Jahre, den Swinging Sixties, ist viel zu tun in Luise Dahlmanns kleinem Laden, er ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Die Regale sind prall gefüllt mit allem, was das Herz begehrt: frische Waren aus dem Umland und Feinkost aus der ganzen Welt. Luise möchte...
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