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Amanda has always taken the role of big sister seriously. She has her life in order; a fantastic job in a great restaurant, a wonderful house and a best friend who's a Rockstar. But, Amanda's beginning to realise that her life is missing one monumental piece… Sabrina is living the high life in LA. Her Instagram is full of lavish parties, her tweets are brimming with celebrity names, but in reality she's stuck behind a desk working for a boss who...
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"The bus began to pull away before I had a chance to shout goodbye to Father. I think about that moment from time to time. About how long he must've stood there after the bus had left. About what he must've felt staring down that dark road, long after the bus had disappeared.
About how long he must've waited before going back inside the store."
-From Chapter 1
Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her...
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Bestselling author of The Summer House by the Sea is finally back on Hope Street after running from the memories for so long. She hasn't bumped into many neighbours yet but with her upcoming wedding to plan there's plenty to keep her busy! is still trying to get used to a life without her husband by her side. It's hard enough raising two children on her own – she doesn't have time to even think about dating… is fed up with being taken for granted...
7) Read Me
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Clark Kemper, a 38-year-old high school dropout, never learned how to read words due to Dyslexia, but he can read people. He developed this skill over a lifetime of navigating a world he couldn't understand.
8) Aquarians
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Aquarians is a wintertime drama about a seminary student who returns to his hometown and is compelled to reconnect with his estranged brother.
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Eine Frau wird von einer Fremden angesprochen, die behauptet, sie hätten beide denselben Vater. Die überraschende Begegnung bleibt flüchtig, löst in ihr aber eine Welle von Emotionen aus. Fragen drängen sich auf, über Ehe und Mutterschaft, über Adoption und andere Familiengeheimnisse, über Wahrheit überhaupt.
In Das Vorkommnis erzählt Julia Schoch - eine der eindrücklichsten Stimmen autofiktionalen Erzählens in der deutschen Literatur...
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Un mari à la porte ( A Husband at the Door) is a one-act operetta which was recorded at the Teatro del Maggio in occasion of the 200th anniversary of Offenbach's birth. Premiered in 1859, this rarely performed work is a most amusing comedy of errors, which is the typical frameset that the composer used to represent and mock the quirks and vices of the French society of his times.
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There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy tale: Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
For years Mamie Künstler, ninety-three-years-old, as clever and glamorous as ever, has lived happily in her bungalow in Venice, California with her inscrutable housekeeper...
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They say every marriage has its secrets. But no one sees what happens behind closed doors. And sometimes those doors should never be opened... Sal and Charlie are married. They love each other. But they aren't happy. Sal cannot leave, no matter what Charlie does - no matter how much it hurts.
14) Second Best
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It's about time British readers discovered the wit and originality of David Foenkinos' Jonathan Coe, author of Bournville
A magical imagining of the fate of a fictional boy whose life is shaped forever when he loses out on the role of Harry Potter.
It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten years old, crazy about Arsenal and has a minor crush on a girl named Betty. Then he makes it to the final two in the casting for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone....
15) The Liar
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In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles – with hilarious results. Playwright Pierre Corneille's comedy of manners is considered a groundbreaking work which influenced contemporaries such as the young Molière.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Tara Lynne Barr, Janine Barris, Sue Cremin, Danny Mann, Christopher Neame, John Sloan, Mark Sullivan,...
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A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered.
Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali, he hasn't spoken to his eldest daughter Mitali in months,...
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From National Book Award—nominated writer Andrea Lee, an epic, gorgeously evocative novel about love and identity, following two decades in the marriage between an African American professor and her wealthy Italian husband as it unfolds on the remote and mysterious island of Madagascar.
Shay is surprised when her husband Senna declares his intention to build her a spectacular dream house on an idyllic beach in the tropical island nation of Madagascar.
But...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is widely considered to be one of the great classics in contemporary Western literature. Dorian Gray, the subject of artist Basil Hallward's painting becomes obsessed with his own vanity, adopts a brand of hedonism that ultimately leads to his own misery and demise. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Steve Juergens, Jim Ortlieb, Colleen Crimmins, Roger Mueller, Thomas Carroll, Paulin Brailsford, Rush...
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Vengeance. Redemption. Murder. This epic Biblical movie brings to life one of early Christianity's most notable figures Saul of Tarsus. As a dedicated leader, Saul fights to defend his faith and traditions - his fanatical behavior reaching its climax when he organizes a brutal scheme to rid Judea of anyone who follows Christ, earning him the title Butcher of Tarsus. While on a mission, Saul is blinded, forced to re-evaluate his beliefs and transformed...
20) Yonder: A Novel
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The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century.
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own.
In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and...
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