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En la casa de campo inglesa de Lady Hunstanton, Lady Caroline conversa con una invitada estadounidense: Hester Worsley. Entran en escena, la encantadora Lady Allonby, la dócil Lady Stutfield y el sumiso marido de Lady Caroline, Sir John. Discuten sobre cuestiones banales hasta que se une el encantador Lord Illingworth, quien ha ofrecido el puesto de Secretario al joven Gerald Arbuthnot. Rachel, la madre de Gerald, es invitada a la reunión, y cuando...
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"Menckorley: Success on the brink of destiny" is an intense narrative that delves into the complex worlds of entrepreneurship and criminality, intertwining the fate of its characters in a web of challenges, passions, and crucial choices. George Menckorley, a charismatic and determined financial tycoon, sees his life and corporate empire threatened when the headquarters of his company, Apex, is invaded by a gang in search of a valuable ruby. The compelling...
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Showing diversity is the best way to undermine the negative stereotyping of Jewish people. The five plays in this book illustrate why stereotypes of any description don't work.
In Shylock Revisited, the main character won't give up his efforts to make the merchant of Venice, Antonio, pay what he owes. In "Good Deeds" a screen writer, Salka Viertel, pays the price for helping Nazi era Jewish artists escape from Europe.
Harry Houdini takes on...
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Satire is a genre of literature where vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings in humans and their institutions are held up to ridicule with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into reform. While satire is generally meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is generally constructive social criticism.
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Poland, Autumn 1942. Entire communities were guided by their rabbis to come to the local train station and board cattle trains which the rabbis said would take them to Auschwitz, a work camp ready with a local synagogue. The Tiktinski family, like others, entered into a fierce debate: to believe the rabbi? To board the train? The persistent rumors leaked the truth -- a horrible death ahead. The members of the family, all real people, the family...
10) The Boss's Son
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Madrid 1959.
Ignacio Gómez, son of Boss Fernando Gómez, the most feared man in the entire capital, has always lived in constant conflict with his father, who tried in every way to keep him out of his shady dealings, but the young thirty-year-old hungry for money and beautiful women he managed in a few years to build his empire and gradually outclass Fernando's business. After his father's death during an assassination attempt on the Álvarez...
13) Firaaq
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Inspired from the 2002 violence in Gujarat, this drama follows the lives of different people directly or indirectly affected by the riots, from a compassionate woman in an orthodox Gujarati family living with a stone-hearted husband, an urban cross-culture couple with a Hindu wife and a Muslim husband, a poor Muslim couple whose house is charred to ashes during the riots to an old Muslim singer. As their stories unfold and intertwine, we see the harrowing...
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Rectify volume 6
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The town's anger hits the boiling point, and Daniel's family goes on alert.
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Rectify volume 4
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A recovered Daniel explores Atlanta and enjoys a taste of big-city anonymity.
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Lost and Found Music Studios volume 14
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Maggie sees an opportunity to reclaim her spot in the band. Meanwhile, the boys hit a major speed bump on the way to their gig, and Michelle's feelings for John are complicated when she learns his dark secret.
17) Balloon Animal
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A young circus performer, stuck under the harsh rules of her father and community expectations, finds herself captivated by small-town America, forcing her to question everything.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 20
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On the eve of her exoneration, Ogden attends a dinner party at the warden's home, where she's surprised to see that her combative former brother-in-law is also a guest. Their frosty exchange turns heated when the warden is stabbed with a steak knife.
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Murdoch Mysteries volume 14
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The pending arrival of Halley's Comet forces the constabulary to contend with hysterical citizens convinced it portends the world's end. A doomsayer is stabbed, and the investigation leads to James Pendrick, who plans to save the best and brightest.
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Nona and Her Daughter volume 8
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Nona decides to give birth at home.
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