Alan Cumming
41) Specimen days
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Specimen days tells three separate stories in three separate times but interconnected. The first story is one of an industrialized New York, where machinery rules, and a young boy copes with life and death, and his infinite knowledge of Walt Whitman. The second story takes place in modern New York, as a black psychologist deals with terrorism in today's age. The third story zips along to a futuristic New York, with a trio of futuristic entities as...
42) The ant bully
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When you're as small as an ant, the world is big - and the adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas learns after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size.
43) Macbeth
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Set in Medieval Scotland, in an atmosphere of civil unrest and mutual suspicion, this story of Macbeth and his wife-accomplice Lady Macbeth tells of the intellectual and emitional consequences of unbridled ambition and the cold-blooded murder it engenders.
44) Happily ever Esther: two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing mission to give animals a home
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Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter had their lives turned upside down when they adopted their pig-daughter Esther--the so-called micro pig who turned out to be a full-sized commercial pig growing to a whopping 600 pounds--as they describe in their bestselling memoir Esther the Wonder Pig. The book ends with them moving to a new farm, and starting a new wonderful life where they will live on the Happily Ever Esther Farm Sanctuary to care for other animals...
45) Buddy
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Gertrude Lintz, a New York socialite who believes that animals should not be caged, raises a gorilla named Buddy and reluctantly realizes that he is not suited for city life.
47) The caretaker
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"Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. This peculiar institution (The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr. Charles Alexander Morgan) is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the...
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Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when an...
50) Son of the mask
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The ancient mask has gone missing again. This time it washes up on the banks of a little stream where it is found by Otis the Dog, who brings it home to Tim Avery and his wife Tonya. Otis plays with the Mask until it attaches itself to his face, after which he is transformed into a cartoon dog. Eventually Tim puts on the Mask, and is transformed into a whiz kid at his advertising agency and is able to create brilliant campaigns with no problems at...
51) Sweet land
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Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
53) Any day now
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When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple, take him in and become the loving family he's never had. But when their living arrangement is discovered, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.
54) Goliath
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Leviathan trilogy volume 3
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Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
55) Annie
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Made-for-television film of the stage play, which tells the story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
56) Emma
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Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.
58) Babycakes
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Tales of the city volume 4
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When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye.
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In this continuation of the Spy Kids saga, Juni Cortez has now retired from being a spy and is trying to live a normal life, while Carmen is still with OSS. When his sister Carmen is trapped inside a groundbreaking new video game, the only way to free her is to enter the game's virtual world and make it to the highest level. Juni goes in to rescue her, and together, the Spy Kids battle through tougher and tougher levels of the game, overcoming challenges...
60) Titus
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Titus is a shocking journey into the depths of the human heart, a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme.--Container.