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61) Harvest
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A tale set in a southern community outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, follows themes of family, farming, baseball, the power of marriage, and human resilience in the face of loss and sacrifice.
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Cumbres borrascosas, la epica historia de Catherine y Heathcliff, situada en los sombrios y desolados paramos de Yorkshire, constituye una asombrosa vision metafisica del destino, la obsesion, la pasion y la venganza. Con ella, Emily Brontë, que se vio obligada a ocultar su genero publicando sus obras bajo seudonimo, rompio por completo con los canones del decoro que la Inglaterra victoriana exigia en toda novela, tanto en el tema escogido como en...
63) Frontiere(s)
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Using a political protest and race riots as cover, a group of young Parisians pull off a robbery, then flee and hide out in a country inn near the French border. There they encounter a neo-Nazi innkeeper and his cannibal family, who are bent on preserving the master race.
64) Chase the moon
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Elijah Moon, his sons, his beautiful daughter Gracie and their families are trying to dwell simply in this modern world. Living off the land in rural Kentucky, they adhere closely to the words of the Bible. But there is more going on at their compound than either Elijah or Gracie realises. In fact, a man has been killed for knowing too much. When the victim's twin, Jake Baretta, arrives at the compound to search for his twin's killer, he struggles...
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"Commemorate the 50th anniversary of the movie that launched the long-running series in an inspirational new version of the beloved holiday classic. John and Olivia Walton face struggles as parents raising six children during the Great Depression and rely on their eldest child -- John Boy, an aspiring writer -- to help nurture his siblings. John, Sr. has been away working at a mill to support his family so Olivia is thrilled when she receives word...
66) Eden
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In Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Maddy Dangerfield has just impulsively drawn a naked woman on the pages of Genesis in bright red lipstick during Sunday service. The community is scandalized, and her devout, long-suffering mother's response is to force her to spend weekends nursing her Aunt Pip-an outcast who lives on the edge of town.
Now Maddy moves between her own home-which she shares with her hard-working, Bible-reading mother and her drinking,...
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"Homesick and alone, a teen-aged girl arrives in Seoul to work in a factory. Her family, still in the countryside, is too impoverished to keep sending her to school, so she works long days on a stereo-assembly line, struggling through night school every evening in order to achieve her dream of becoming a writer"
72) Cloudstreet
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"After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they...
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Beneath the burning ground volume 1
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The Wares are only one of the families that will soon be caught up in the burning issue of slavery with raids from the Border Ruffians out of Missouri and John Brown's small army devoted to ending slavery and helping runaways to escape to the north. To aid and abet a runaway slave is a crime that carries a dear price.
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Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. But as a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them. In one of the greatest romances of all time.
77) The real McCoys
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This is a television series about a family named 'McCoy' who leaves their native West Virginia to settle on a farm in the San Fernando Valley in California. The family is dominated by Grandpa Amos McCoy, the lovable, obstinate patriarch of the family. The new car: Grandpa is heartbroken when Luke and Kate decide to trade in their old Ford. Sing for your supper: Even though Luke gets the hic-ups when he's nervous, he still enters a local radio station's...
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Deep in the Alaskan wilderness is a family who, for the last thirty years, has lived in the wild. For the Browns, residing in a one-room cabin and sharing their front yard with some of the world's most dangerous animals is just part of life. Includes all fourteen episodes from one of Discovery's highest-rated shows.
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"Grady Hayes is a young high school football player being raised by his hard working single mother. His life revolves around football, until-in a game against cross-county rivals-he breaks his leg. Cut off from his teammates, Grady is lost. He takes prescription pills to dull the pain and pass the time. But when his leg finally heals and Grady tries to return to the team, his spot has been filled and he can't relate to his teammates anymore. Grady...
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