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Learn more about the Ukraine with a collection of over 25 informative films.
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Small-town judgment can be brutal, as Sherry Dyke, a high school student, finds out after she is date-raped, becomes pregnant as a result, and makes a difficult decision. The family moves to another state to avoid the harassment and begin to rebuild their lives. They win over their new communities, including Sherry finding love.
But, when the man who raped her shows up, the harassment begins anew until Sherry is brutally raped again and beaten. Sherry...
2) Daymi
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La historia de Daymi, es la inspiracion sobre una vida bonita de un ser lleno de amor y bondad, desarrollandose en el centro agroindustrial de Venezuela, incluyendo un aeropuerto de actividades aeroagricolas con aviones de fumigacion, enamorandose de un piloto y casandose posteriormente con el, comenzando una historia de amor. Viven un tiempo en la colonia agricola para luego trasladarse a la ciudad, no olvidando a sus padres y abuelos que quedan...
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"I don't get arrested, I arrest!" A veteran police officer is arrested by his own police department for a heinous crime, and they are determined to convict him-no matter what! Living and working in a small community where everyone knows everyone's business is not a popular position to be in.
4) Color Me
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Color Me is the story of Johnathan Black, a painter, who suffers from schizophrenia. Throughout the drama, his psychoses are represented by percussion and dance. The play follows Johnathan's growth over the course of eighteen years, from the onset of his mental illness through his triumph over insanity as he accepts a position teaching art at a nearby community college.
The play begins, when Johnathan is only twelve-years-old and the Black family...
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Have you ever looked around a room full of people and wondered who they really are? What's their story? What have they been through? What makes them the way they are?
Daphne is a beautiful, single career woman who turns heads whenever she walks into a room. Despite the obvious attention from others, she battles insecurity and keeps her true feelings hidden, even from herself.
Rachel lives what seems to be a very charmed life. She is married to the...
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Maria is a fifteen-year-old "city girl," spending the summer at her estranged grandparents' ranch. The uneasiness of developing a relationship for both sides is difficult at first. Then one day, Maria finds an archery bow, and a bond develops between her and Grandpa as he discovers her incredible gift for using it. The archery becomes not only a bond but a source of hurt, anxiety, and forgiveness to all that have been touched by the arrow's heart....
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Shana Jones was normally a very good student. But her English professor thought that her work was getting sloppy. That she wasn't living up to her full potential.
He referred her to a phenomenal student named Matthew Jones. Under his tutoring, her grades soared. Matthew was such a good tutor. He taught her more than book smarts. He taught Shana to open her mind and body to a whole new hypothesis.
See how this sexy tutor taught her how to love.
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Redemption: The Taste of a Woman's Rage is based on life known events. It is about a young woman named April who was being naive to the rules and regulations as a correctional officer. She was targeted by an inmate whom was very charming named Nathaniel. Nathaniel is the type to lure young vulnerable women who is very self-conscious about themselves. She goes through a break up with her boyfriend becoming weak-minded and vulnerable. April eventually...
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Tommy and Ava Jo had been best friends and inseparable since they were toddlers, happy and full of life. By thirteen, Tommy had become an outstanding baseball player and was getting noticed by many schools. Ava was there to cheer him on and help keep his ego in check. One day, a tragic house fire sends Tommy away to a burn center, not to be seen or heard from again by anyone. Then five years later, Ava Jo would learn that her long-lost friend had...
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Double-Click Velocity is an on-the-edge-of-your-seat book. It is intriguing, mysterious, captivating, and shockingly surprising. From beginning to end, it catches your attention and, page after page, keeps you locked in the plot, the characters, the scenes, causing you to wonder, What's next? Get comfy and relax as Double-Click Velocity pulls you into a world of mystery and drama. You won't be disappointed. Enjoy!
13) Secrets
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About one man's love for a woman, not of his religion and/or culture. He has to find a way to get around it and his controlling father to have the woman of his dreams. He has to show her that he is the one she needs to be happy.
Friends and family are not what they seem to be. Life does not turn out the way it should have. Secrets are kept by those who claim to love each other.
There is one who knows everyone's secrets, those who tries to protect...
14) Adapt
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Why did it have to be him? Why couldn't it be her mother instead?
Hannah Marks, a law student at NYU, has a broken relationship with her mother. That's perfectly fine with her since the woman ruined her life. When a tragedy occurs with her father, her world is thrown into chaos, bringing back the forgotten woman. Hannah is torn from her life in New York and is forced to adapt to a rural city in Ohio. Can she even salvage what is left that she once...
15) Sofía
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Sofía tenía la capacidad de hacer todo lo que se propusiera, todo lo que soñara o deseara lo lograba con su propio esfuerzo, era feliz, tenía todo para no sentirse sola, porque se ganaba el cariño de las personas que la conocían, tenía un corazón bueno, saludaba y ayudaba al humilde que vive en la calle, pero Sofía quería sentir y vivir el amor, tal vez eso no era para ella, porque sería tan fuerte que cambiaría para siempre su corta historia....
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After years of abuse and bullying from schoolmates, her parents, and most of her siblings, Vicki Little falls into a routine of poor hygiene and appearance and believes her tormentors' opinions that she is unworthy of their love and respect. Her only positive outlets are a focus on her education and the encouragement of her only supporter-her younger brother, Alex.
Vicki believes she has found an escape when she enrolls in college in another state....
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The trilogy is a series of three short stories: "Alter Ego," which was written in 2009 and misplaced; "Big Mama Sweets Revenge Queens Court"; and "I Am Boogeyman" was later written in 2017 and merged in one as The Trilogy. Enjoy as past, present, and future are combined.
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The Cop and the Stalker is a true story of what happened when a highly decorated New York City cop and a career criminal are put on a collision course with the help of US Customs and an overzealous federal prosecutor. It is also a story of raw courage and the friendship of two youths growing up in Yonkers, New York. Vinny Davis worked as a plainclothes cop in the highest crime neighborhoods of the Bronx in the eighties and nineties. He would stop...
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This is a story of two young bored men visiting an uncle who has recently become a widower. They have no idea that their visit is about to take them into a whirlwind of twists and turns that they could have never imagined. They become intricate participants in a strange and dangerous twist that takes the reader back and forth before the truth slowly creeps out of the dark (literally). This is a complex whodunit that only unravels at the very end.
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Esta es la historia de una madre que por desesperacion y el hambre que estaba pasando, hizo un pacto con el diablo, y el pago era, las primogenitas de sus hijas durante toda su descendencia. Todo empezo en el ano 1817 epoca de la independencia efimera en la Republica Dominicana, hasta el 1948 con la convencion al cristianismo. Con la muerte de su hija Yeni, ella y su hija Delinea empiezan a ver tanto angeles como demonios, al ver la batalla entre...
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