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121) Lokator
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Polish
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
122) Nieznana miłość
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Polish
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Lady Delilah Derring przez całe swoje małżeństwo była wierną, choć zdradzaną żoną. Śmierć hrabiego zderzyła ją z ponurą rzeczywistością: z powodu długów męża zostaje bez środków do życia i musi przeprowadzić się z rezydencji w centrum Londynu do zrujnowanego domu w okolicy portu. Niespodziewanie ta sytuacja daje Delilah szansę na inne życie: prawdziwą wolność, w której nie ma miejsca na łaskę i niełaskę mężczyzny....
124) The guest house
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"How much would you pay to survive? Mum-of-three Ronni Ashcroft is piecing her life back together after being betrayed by her husband. She's running a successful guest house on a remote spur of the Scottish Highlands, and has met a new man - the enigmatic Bishop. But Bishop has secrets. He's connected to a network of criminals and has big plans to turn this part of the Ardnamurchan peninsula into a European gateway for drugs, guns - and something...
126) Old Man Goriot
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Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris, where the streets teem with chancers, criminals, and social climbers--and everyone is out for what he can get. When he finds a place to stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees the potential to make a fortune in two beautiful, aristocratic women who visit the lonely old lodger Goriot. Could they bring Eugene the status and acceptance he craves? Nothing is as it seems in Paris, however,...
127) The lodger
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"Dorothy Richardson is existing just above the poverty line, doing secretarial work at a dentist's office ... when she is invited to spend the weekend with a childhood friend. Jane has recently married a writer who is hovering on the brink of fame. His name is H.G. Wells, or Bertie, as they call him ... Dorothy notices his grey-blue eyes taking her in, openly signalling approval. He tells her he and Jane have an agreement which allows them the freedom...
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In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
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"Claudie is traveling from Harlem to Georgia with Mama and Cousin Sidney to meet her grandmother and cousins for the first time. She hopes that learning her family's story will inspire her for the variety show she's planning to raise money to save the boardinghouse her family lives in. Claudie's grandmother tells her a legend from slavery times called "The People Could Fly." In it, an old man whispers magic words, and the enslaved people grow wings...
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"Meeko's wildest dreams have finally come true--not only has she confessed her feelings to Matsunaga-san, but to her surprise, Matsunaga-san admits that the feeling is mutual...! With Meeko still in high school, and both of them living under the same roof, the two decide to refrain from dating until after Meeko graduates. While Meeko can't wait for them to officially become a couple, just being able to live with Matsunaga-san and see him every day...
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"Moving House. Matsunaga-san may have moved out of the boarding house, but instead of dwelling on the fact that they're no longer living together, Meeko's looking forward to what's in store for their future. Although the two have decided to hold off on becoming a couple until after meeko's high school graduation, just knowing Matsunaga-san cares for her puts Meeko's mind at ease. And after she's gifted a spare key to his apartment, Meeko couldn't...
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"Forever home. Within the walls of her uncle's boarding house, highschooler Meeko has learned so much about growing up, becoming independent... and falling in love. Whether it's the blossoming new romance between Ken and Asako, Ryo's one-sided feelings for Meeko, or Meeko and Matsunaga-san's complex relationship, it seems that love has touched the lives of all the boarding house residents. When an urget work deadline--and an even more urgent accident--leads...
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"With the help of her housemates, high schooler Meeko begins to adjust to life in her uncle's boarding house. Even the initially frightening Matsunaga-san helps her out -- and soon enough, between one kind act and another, Meeko find herself falling for him. Knowing that Matsunaga-san doesn't see her that way, Meeko tries to keep her one-sided, budding feelings in check. But balancing first loves and final exams is a lot to handle, and when her grades...
135) Hearts rekindled
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English
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"I'm here to see my daughter ..." She never thought she'd see John Davenport again. Marrilee Daniels Davenport's former husband has returned to their small Georgia town after fighting in the Pacific. And now the soldier is bearing a letter from the little girl he didn't know he had. Merrilee wishes that she and her daughter could lean on John's able shoulders, but her new assignment as a homeland informant won't allow it ... Twelve years have only...
136) Éste es mi lugar
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Español
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Isolating themselves from everyone save their four eclectic boarders, Mona and her daughter, Oneida, find their quiet life upended by the arrival of a widower in the middle of a nervous breakdown who carries his late wife's mementos and a never-sent, revelatory postcard to Mona.
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"High schooler Meeko continues to pine for Matsunaga-san, the hotheaded graphic designer whose room is across from hers in her uncle's boarding house. It seems no amount of secret ardor can get Matsunaga-san to notice, let alone return, her feelings. But as Meeko welcomes the start of a brand-new school term, a wave of shocking developments comes along with it. After a day trip with Matsunaga-san to Kitneyland leaves Meeko on cloud nine, she soon...
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"For high schooler Meeko, life at her uncle's boarding house has finally become routine, and her feelings for Matsunaga-san, a professional designer and the eldest of her housemates, grow stronger with each passing day. As summer break comes to an end, Meeko can't help but hope that the two of them have become closer ... but does Matsunaga-san really see her the way she hopes he does? And when her other housemates start worrying about loves of their...
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"It's summer vacation, which means it's Meeko's first summer living in her uncle's boarding house. As if dealing with the sweltering heat wasn't enough, Meeko must also cool down her budding crush on her older, hot-headed housemate, Matsunaga-san. But when Meeko decides to get a part-time job to buy Matsunaga-san a birthday present, she discovers on her first day of work that her coworker is none other than her housemate Ryo! Can Meeko keep her new...
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