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Love and the game volume 1
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At twelve years old Perri Daniels is a tomboy at heart, fitting right on in with the guys. Instead of making up cheers and playing double dutch, like most girls her age, she spends her time fighting, hooping and playing video games alongside her best friend Plus. Living only two doors down from one another in the Millwood Projects of Prince Georges County, Maryland, the two grew up more like family than friends. However, as they later enter their...
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New York businessman Connor McCormick's heart was broken when his sweetheart Jenny Sommers disappeared seven years ago. Now Connor is unexpectedly reunited with Jenny--and discovers she's a midwife to pregnant runaways and a single mother herself. Winning Jenny's trust when she's wary of depending on anyone and protective of her daughter won't be easy, but Connor isn't about to walk away when she needs him.
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Contains three films written by Marcel Pagnol. Marius is a young man torn between his love for his family and his desire to move away from his Marseilles harbor, while Fanny, his shy lover, doesn't know how to hold Marius back to keep him near her. Cesar, Marius' father, does not know his son's intentions. When Marius leaves, Fanny discovers she is pregnant with his son, and struggles with the support of his family, to survive without him.
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日本語
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Yoko, a freelance writer, becomes pregnant and chooses, against tradition and her parents' wishes, to raise the baby alone. In her loneliness and confusion, Yoko befriends the owner of a second-hand bookstore, who silently falls in love with her as she contemplates the choice she has made.
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"Will discovering a secret daughter change his mind about a family? When Drew Calhoun returns home to save the family ranch, he knows he'll run into his ex-sweetheart, Mandy Brown--but he doesn't know he's a father. Working alongside each other stirs up feelings both thought long gone. But now that the truth's out, Drew's still not sure he's father material. Can he open his heart to young Ella and forgive Mandy for keeping secrets?"--Back cover.
89) The old maid
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Headstrong, beautiful Tina has nothing but disdain for her Aunt Charlotte. Tina does not think that her aunt has any understanding of a young girls heart, but Charlotte knows more than Tina thinks. For unloved, unlovable Aunt Charlotte is really Tina's mother, whose romance with a Civil War soldier who didn't return resulted in Tina's birth.
90) December bride
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English
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A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time. Sarah and the brothers risk happiness, reputation, and safety for their daring love.
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"An emotionally compelling tale of love and mystery set in the publishing world of World War II London, When We Meet Again tells the story of a mother searching for her stolen child, and illustrates the unbreakable bonds among families, lovers, and readers under the shadow of war"--
92) The dear one
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Twelve-year-old Feni has to adjust when the pregnant young daughter of an old friend of her mother's comes to stay with them.
93) Leading ladies
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An infectious comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom. The Campari family's life revolves entirely around ballroom dancing, so when one sister gets pregnant and the other plans to waltz out of the closet, their mom's vicarious pursuit of the Midwest Regional Ballroom Competition is in severe jeopardy. Find out what happens, however, as they learn to 'let love lead'.
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Laura Engel shares the story of how she was forced as an unwed teenager to live in a maternity home in New Orleans, two hours from her home in Mississippi, and relinquish her son for adoption. Throughout her life, she never forgot her "secret son" and longed to find him. Gradually she learned forgiveness for her parents and for her younger self.
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En el invierno de 1956, la joven embarazada Ivy es enviada en desgracia a St Margaret's, un hogar para madres solteras en el sur de Inglaterra, dirigido por monjas, para tener su hijo. Adoptan a su pequeña hija. Ivy nunca se irá. Sesenta años después, la periodista Samantha se topa con una serie de cartas de Ivy a su amante, suplicándole que la rescate de St. Margaret's antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Mientras Sam reconstruye la trágica historia...
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Six films made before the Production Code. In 1934, Hollywood was turned upside down by the enforcement of a strict "Production Code" that would change the way movies were made for the next 34 years. But during the "pre-Code" period (1929-1934), censorship barely existed and filmmakers had free rein to make the movies they wanted and the public demanded. No subject was taboo including adultery, murder or sex.
The cheat: Tallulah Bankhead plays a...
100) Fallen beauty
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"Upstate New York, 1928. Laura Kelley and the man she loves sneak away from their judgmental town to attend a performance of the scandalous Ziegfeld Follies. But the dark consequences of their night of daring and delight reach far into the future.... That same evening, Bohemian poet Edna St. Vincent Millay and her indulgent husband hold a wild party in their remote mountain estate, hoping to inspire her muse. Millay declares her wish for a new lover...
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