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JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
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Los Angeles, 1991. Ambassador Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is murdered in broad daylight on his illegitimate daughter India's doorstep, slaughtered by a knife wielded by his Kashmiri Muslim driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the clown. The dead man is a charismatic World War Two Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability, a former US ambassador to India and subsequently America's counter-terrorism...
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"Trying to reboot their obsolete careers, old-school salesmen Billy ... and Nick ... talk their way into an internship program at the state-of-the-art Google campus, vying for a handful of spots among tech-savvy college students who are half their age and twice as smart. The competition is fiercely funny as Billy and Nick break all the rules in a hilarious quest to land their dream jobs"--Container.
4) Magic seeds
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Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's magnificent Magic Seeds continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly...
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"Where does science end and the supernatural begin? That's the mysterious, and dangerous, line explored by skeptical psychologist Kristen Bouchard when she teams up with priest-in-training David Acosta to explore the evil humanity is capable of. Together, they dive into the Catholic Church's files of occult phenomena to bring them to rational conclusions or attempt to. Angel sightings, demonic possessions, prophecies and conspiracies will test their...
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JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called 'Million Dollar Arm' where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
10) Dark horse
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Romance blooms between two thirty-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector who is the dark horse of his family and a depressed woman on the rebound.
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"In every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind. In this fully illustrated companion to Netflix's award-winning A Series of Unfortunate Events, you will discover never-before-seen photographs, never-before-told stories, and never-before-revealed secrets spanning all three seasons of the hilariously twisted, acclaimed hit series. You will encounter original concept art, annotated script excerpts,...
12) Today's special
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Samir is a traditionally trained chef who works as the sous chef in an exclusive restaurant in Manhattan, but when he learns he's been turned down for an expected promotion, he leaves in a huff and isn't asked to return. Samir considers heading for Europe to attend a culinary academy, but his plans quickly change when he learns that his father has suffered a severe heart attack and someone needs to look after the family business, a dingy Indian restaurant...
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Say your prayers and freshen up on your science because Evil returns for a third season. There is plenty to take in including Kristen and David's escalating attraction, creepy toys, some new demons, and the return of everyone's favorite night terror, George. This three-disc collection comes with all ten episodes and deleted scenes.
14) The siege
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When a crowded city bus blows up in Brooklyn and a campaign of terror begins to make its mark on the streets of New York, its up to FBI special agent Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard and U.S. Army General William Devereaux to find out who's responsible.
15) The proposal
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High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The miracle: The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in American sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union.
Remember the Titans: A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast...
17) Eavesdrop
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Friends, lovers, strangers, intellectuals, artists. Their conversations cloaked in the safety of candlelight and wine at a crowded and smoky New York City bistro. Their worlds silently and keenly observed as they intertwine and drift, like the melody of life. From the poignant to the banal, from the apparent to the clandestine, young romance, love lost, anger, fear, regret, denial, confessions, and murder.