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3782) Flores para Algernon
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Mentally handicapped Charlie Gordon participates in an experiment which turns him into a genius temporarily.
3784) A simple plan
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Now a major motion picture starring Billy Bob Thornton, this is the story of three men who stumble upon an extraordinary amount of money and create a simple plan to hide, keep and eventually share the cash. But this seemingly simple plan quickly gives rise to suspicion, blackmail, betrayal and, finally, murder.
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It is the mid-1980s, and a civil war is raging on the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka. Each day, fresh corpses inundate emergency medical clinics-many of them so mutilated that they are unidentifiable and can only be classified as "disappearances." Anil Tissera, a 33-year-old forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated abroad, returns to the island as part of a United Nations human rights campaign to prove that mass murders are taking place....
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Ptolemy Grey is a 91-year-old man, suffering from dementia and living as a recluse in his Los Angeles apartment. Then Robyn Small, a 17-year-old family friend, appears and helps clean up his apartment and straighten out his life. A reinvigorated Ptolemy volunteers for an experimental medical program that restores his mind, and he uses his last days--shortened now by the medical experiment--to delve into the mystery of the recent drive-by shooting...
3789) Of mice and men
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Best friends Lennie and George find themselves unemployed in Depression-era California, unable to maintain a stable working pattern for long because of Lennie's infantile mental capacity. They get hired at the Tyler Ranch but soon their work is ripped apart by tragedy when Curly's beautiful but unhappy wife becomes the innocent victim of Lennie's compassion.
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The City of Angels has more than its share of psychopaths, and no one recognizes that more acutely than the brilliant psychologist and police consultant Dr. Alex Delaware. Despite that, Constance Sykes, a sophisticated, successful physician, hardly seems like someone Alex needs to fear. Then, at the behest of the court, he becomes embroiled in a bizarre child custody dispute initiated by Connie against her sister and begins to realize that there is...
3793) La Habana Perdida
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En una isla cerca de la ventosa costa de Irlanda, se reúnen los invitados de la boda del año, el enlace entre Jules Keegan y Will Slater. Viejos amigos. Resentimientos del pasado. Familias felices. Envidias ocultas. Trece invitados. Un cadãver. En el momento de cortar la tarta, uno de los invitados aparece muerto. A su vez, una tormenta desata toda su furia sobre la isla. Todo el mundo estã atrapado. Todos tienen un secreto. Todos tienen un motivo."--Back...
3794) The time in between
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In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier.
3796) Sea escape
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Balancing her roles as wife and mother with the responsibility of caring for a parent who is recovering from a stroke, Laura reads the love letters exchanged by her parents during the 1950s and tumultuous Vietnam War period, a correspondence that reveals unexpected truths.
3797) The lies you told
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Sadie Roper returns to London to rebuild her shattered life, but as she navigates the politics at her daughter's exclusive school and resumes her criminal barrister career with a high-profile case, she attracts the attention of unknown enemies.