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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
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A giant meteorite is due to collide with Earth in three days. Ale, a frustrated young man who lives with his mother and works at odd jobs, decides to spend his last days shut away, getting drunk and listening to his favorite music. But his plans change when he is forced to help his mother, Rosa, protect his brother Tomas' four children when Lucio, an ambiguous, disturbing stranger appears.
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An expanded edition of Kinoglasnost that examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the yeas of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s.
In Before the Fall, Anna Lawton shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a commentary on the dramatic changes that marked the beginning of democracy in Russia.
Soviet...
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A love forbidden by family. A feud spanning generations.
A woman still yearning for freedom.
Twenty years after she was, driven away from her family and the only man she ever truly loved, Jo Devereux has returned to the small Irish village where she grew up. And, this time, she wants answers.
What happened to her family during the Irish Civil War? Did her great-uncle's best friend really shoot him dead? And, what did this "war of the brothers" mean...
4) The King
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English
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Does pride come before the fall? Can two of the most formidable beings in the universe put theirs aside to save themselves? Only one thing's for certain: Destiny will not be denied! He is proud. He is powerful. He is unstoppable.His is The King.There is nothing he can't do…Except convince his Mate they were made for each other. She is a force of nature. She is the daughter of a god. She is an Empress Eagle Shifter unlike any other.She is his Queen.There...
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Pierre Chambrun mystery novels volume 5
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English
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A Nazi's widow comes to the Beaumont Hotel with death in her entourage As befits the manager of New York's finest hotel, Pierre Chambrun has certain standards for his guests at the Beaumont. Were it not for the pleading of the hotel's owner, no amount of money could persuade him to allow the Baroness Charmian Zetterstrom a room. She is the stunning young widow of a Nazi war criminal; her husband was an infamous sadist who escaped before the fall of...
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The US journalist's account of his colleague's struggle to survive the Cambodian genocide-the basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phnom Penh-the capital of Cambodia-and began a brutal genocide that left millions dead. Dith Pran, a Cambodian working as an assistant to American reporter Sydney H. Schanberg, was a witness to these events. While his employer managed to escape across the...
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Buy now to get the main key ideas from Bret Baier and Catherine Whitney's Three Days in Moscow
In Three Days in Moscow (2018), Bret Baier of Fox News and his co-writer Catherine Whitney tell a story of patriotism, courage, and ambition, about a man who went to the full extent for the sake of his nation, without ever compromising democracy.
This political biography focuses on President Ronald Reagan's agenda during his final years in office, before...
8) The Fall
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She can't remember her kidnapping. After watching her husband die on the bridge of the CCS Alexander and being used as bait by Earth's government,Laura Howard has found a second chance at love on a planet light-years from Earth-until she falls, and a head injury erases her time on Tolar. Angry, frightened, and impulsive, she rejects the Tolari ruler who loves the woman she was before the fall, vowing to live free on Tolar and master the empathic gifts...
9) Tremble
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What if you met the man of your dreams inside a nightmare?Not everything sounds good when you say it. Some things sound, well, just wrong. Like saying I hired a male escort to be my fiancé leading into (yeah, this is sounding bad) marriage, a fake marriage, one about money.See, that did not sound good at all, but you'll have to just trust me on this, that was the innocent part of the story. You know, the sunny bit before the fall. Because the rest...
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Everyone has their demons. Star has Crow. Star is the client whisperer in Crow's business model.Crow identifies some poor soul, marked for death, and gaining ground in the fight against their own demons. Star finesses the client, breaking the news of their imminent demise. Once they believe her, she gets to know them, their hopes, dreams, and regrets, as they ruminate on the unfairness of it all.Then, she makes the pitch. Would you sell your soul...
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What seems like an unfortunate fall turns out to be far more disturbing, as a blind detective discovers, in this mystery from the author of The Last Express.
Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex—intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City...
Wealthy businessman Dryden Winslow spent over twenty years self-exiled in Australia,...
12) Playing Fields
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English
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In this eclectic collection of poems we encounter spiritual, sensual, narrative, observational and political poems pertinent to our times. Very simply written, each poem takes us on a unique journey through space and time. Through the poet's own vivid imagination we are taken to forests and fields, sands and seas, but most importantly we journey into the depths of our very own being.The poems vary from very stark dark depictions of the world's current...
13) Before We Fall
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If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all. That saying is as old as the hills in Tennessee, where I used to live. And it's definitely true. I'm a bad luck magnet, at least when it comes to men.Moving to Stone Lake was supposed to be a fresh start. Here, I was going to build a life I could be proud of. Finally put down roots and live quietly.Be safe and happy.It didn't quite work out that way, but I'm stubborn and I'm not about to...
14) FUNNY STORY
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"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry, Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
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Every man seeks out the ideal woman. despite the fact that their specific criteria for a lady vary. Finding someone who is willing to experience life's ups and downs with them and who they can depend on is a recurrent topic, nevertheless. They hesitate to commit because of this.Finding "the one" is an important choice that men make in their lives. They gave it considerable thought. They are seeking a woman who is not just decent, who can assist them,...
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Sinners volume 2
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English
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Craig is a roadie for a band, just not a likeable one. The son of a wealthy lady who sponsors the band's latest tour, they do their best to ignore his tantrums.
Annoyed at the band's attitude, however, Craig takes things into his own hands.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Amidst the ambition and competition at the elite Morton Academy, Liz, Taylor, Kat, Marcus, and Cole join forces to investigate a string of mysterious deaths and race to uncover the truth before more of the school's best and brightest fall victim.
18) The last word
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When the very much alive Leocadia Arlington requests her own obituary by the end of the week, and then turns up dead, obituary writer Winter Snow falls under suspicion and, with the help of friends and family, must uncover the killer before the next obituary written is her own.
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"With the August heat strong enough to melt solid chocolate into syrup, Jake and Ellie crave a break from the bakery ovens, despite tourist season promising a sweet payday. But they never envisioned spending the last weeks of summer drifting around Passamaquoddy Bay searching for pirate's treasure--and a dead body. Sally Coates believes her husband was murdered off the coast, and begs Ellie, a trusted childhood friend, to locate his remains. It's...
20) Wings of Hope
Publisher
Synergetic Distribution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Werner Herzog returns to the South American jungle with Juliane Koepcke, who survived a fall from a plane to live another 12 days in the Amazon before being found. Juliane and Werner recreate her journey out of the jungle.