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1101) Firefly: Blue Sun rising
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"The first-ever Firefly event returns in a new edition concluding the opening and closing chapters that changed the 'Verse! Sheriff Mal Reynolds has a new partner -- a law enforcing robot from the Blue Sun corporation. If he wants to keep his job and protect his sector, he'll have to play by Blue Sun's rulebook. But the robots don't care about motives, about mercy, about anything other than enforcing the law -- no matter the cost. The Blue Sun Corporation...
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"Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa. But why the new upsurge? The popular narrative blames a meeting of two evils -- criminal poaching and terrorism. But the answer is not that simple. Since ancient times,...
1105) La apelación
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When a judge returns a verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in Mississippi, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.
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"An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Myriad large banks settled securities fraud claims for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. Rather than breaking up these powerful megabanks, , the government accepted fines that essentially punished innocent shareholders instead of senior leaders at the megabanks. In [this book the authors]...
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"Los Angeles, 2009. Someone is triggering psychotic breakdowns in the NEXUS 4 REPLICANT population, sending once obedient servants on homicidal rampages. Ex-LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux has been ordered to hunt down and kill the instigator. Tasked by the Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl to find a rogue Nexus 5 prototype, believed to be responsible for the attacks, Cal's hunt has brought him back to the slum sector of LA where he and his sister grew...
1109) The inspector general
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A corrupt village wrongly suspects the idiot assistant of a medicine-show operator of being the emperor's omnipotent inspector general in disguise.
1110) Murdoch's scandal
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Over half a century Rupert Murdoch's business audacity and political shrewdness built one of the world's most powerful media empires. Now his dynasty is under threat due to shocking allegations of invasion of privacy and journalistic impropriety by employees at Murdoch's now defunct British newspaper "News of the World". Today, the owner of the "Wall Street Journal" and FOX News Channel is in the fight of his life for the future of his company, his...
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Cupid & Cate: Cate DeAngelo is a talented and slightly quirky individual whose life and identity seem to be stuck in neutral until her sister decides to play "Cupid" and introduces her to a handsome and truly endearing man.
Grace & Glorie: A down-to-earth widow named Grace reluctantly agrees to share her country home with a hospice caregiver, a sophisticated ex-New Yorker whom Grace calls Glorie. Initially, the relationship between the two women...
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"The slums of LA are ablaze. Tyrell executive Ilora Stahl, head of a secret programme to transfer human consciousness into Replicant hosts has launched an all-out attack on Sector 6-b determined to flush out and kill a renegade Replicant called Nia, who was once part of her covert programme. Having escaped, Nia has been triggering logic short-circuits in the organic programming of once loyal Replicant servants, causing them to rebel against their...
1114) Amazing Grace
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Grace Teasdale Grimes, a Baltimore, Maryland widow, discovers that the local mayoral election is a front for pilfering funds from their neighborhood by the incumbent mayor and his cronies. Stirred to activism, Grace, with the aid of her neighbors, rallies the community to thwart the self-serving politicians in this rollicking comedy.
1117) Patrioci
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"A sweeping multigenerational debut novel about idealism, betrayal, and family secrets that takes us from Brooklyn in the 1930s to Soviet Russia to post-Cold War America. When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow--and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian,...
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This is the other side of the Google story, the unauthorized book that Google does not want you to read. In it, the author, a Google expert shows that the world's most powerful company is not who it pretends to be. Google pretends to be a harmless lamb, but chose a full size model of a Tyrannosaurus Rex as its mascot. Beware the T Rex in sheep's clothing. Google has acquired far more information, both public and private, and has invented more ways...
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