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As the social fabric of life in rural India disintegrates in the late 1990s, journalist Manav Banerjee moves with his pregnant wife to the town of Orissa in the hope of a better life and the promise of a lucrative career. When speculation mounts that local Australian missionary Graham Staines is illegally proselytizing leprosy patients, Manav agrees to investigate undercover for the newspaper. What he finds is a series of revelations that are difficult...
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Pure luck: Eugene Proctor, an unlucky, mishap-prone man, is sent on a mission with a no-nonsense detective, to rescue the equally unlucky daughter of his boss.
King Ralph: A freak accident wipes out the entire royal family, and a good-natured, down-to-earth Las Vegas lounge singer, Ralph Jones, is the distant heir who inherits the throne. His unconventional behavior delights the public, but fuels a plot to overthrow the new king.
Ghost dad: Elliot...
124) The descendants
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Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
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"Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break' from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position...
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"He was a hero of the Revolution, a brilliant politician, lawyer, and very nearly president; a skillful survivor in a raw new country filled with constantly shifting loyalties. Today Aaron Burr is remembered more for the fatal duel that killed rival Alexander Hamilton. But long before that single shot destroyed Burr's political career, there were other dark whispers about him- that he was untrustworthy, a libertine, a man unafraid of claiming whatever...
128) Beautiful lies
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A tale inspired by a true story follows the experiences of Scottish aristocrat's wife Maribel Campbell, a self-proclaimed Chilean heiress who in late Victorian London finds her husband's career threatened by a notorious journalist's investigation into her true past.
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"Logically illogical -- that's Gracie Allen! And you can imagine what that means for her long-suffering husband George Burns! Here are sixteen laugh-packed adventures with the People Who Live In The Burns House, co-starring announcer Bill Goodwin, musical director Meredith Willson, and Mel Blanc (as the Happy Postman)! Listen along as Gracie encourages George to get more romantic and discourages his signing"--Container.
130) Overdrawn
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"Henry Morris is watching his wife slip away from him. In an ageist society, where euthanasia is encouraged as a patriotic act, dementia is no longer tolerated. Kaitlyn, a young waitress, is desperate for the funds to keep her brother's life support machine switched on. When a chance encounter brings the two together, they embark on an unconventional business arrangement that will force them to confront their prejudices, as well as their deepest,...
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Partners in crime. The secret adversary: In this sparkling adaptation, charming crime-solvers Tommy and Tuppenece Beresford stumble into spy craft while seraching for a missing woman in Cold War-era Britain.
Ordeal by innocence: Miss Marple is drawn into the Argyle family's tragic history when she visits for a wedding and realizes a murderer is in their midst.
The hollow: Invited for a weekend in the country with the Angkatell clan, Poirot untangles...
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