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"An enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart. Small town cinema owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his Pontiac flies off a bridge into the icy depths of Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening into his new life, Virgil begins...
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"Since his boyhood in a poor village in Central Anatolia, Mevlut Karataş has fantasized about what his life would become. Not getting as far in school as he'd hoped, at the age of twelve he comes to Istanbul--"the center of the world"--And is immediately enthralled by both the old city that is disappearing and the new one that is fast being built. He follows his father's trade, selling boza (a traditional mildly alcoholic Turkish drink) on the street,...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Eisner award-winning author David Walker explodes onto the YA literary scene with a remarkable story about justice and second chances and all the ways we can make our own world in the image of our dreams. Darius Logan is far from a hero. Since his parents were killed, he's spent most of his life navigating foster homes and shelters, abandoned neighborhoods and decaying buildings-all Darius knows is survival. Life was hard enough, but now he finds...
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Publisher:
Harlequin
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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They were burned by the price of fame…but their second chances at love await in the spotlight! Public lives lead to private chemistry in two dazzling new stories from LaQuette and Sophia Singh Sasson. Secret Heir for Christmas by LaQuette This holiday, will the man next door tempt him with a second chance? Actor Carter Jiménez lost his world to celebrity and now avoids fame at all costs, protecting his young daughter and his still-broken heart...
6. 17 again
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English
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What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Mike's glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage has fallen apart, he's been passed over for a promotion, and his kids think he's a loser. But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17 and he's suddenly back at Hayden High School where he becomes the star of the basketball team, a total hottie and a classmate to his own teenage kids.
Publisher:
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2008
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English
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Florentino is a poetry-writing telegraph operator who lives in a Central American city. He spots the graceful Fermina while making his rounds, and finds himself in love. While Florentino's mother encourages the courtship, Fermina's father absolutely forbids it. Years pass, and the well-born Dr. Urbino treats Fermina for a case of cholera. When Urbino proposes, Fermina accepts. A distraught Florentino decides to wait. With the help of his uncle, he...
8. Ondine
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Sudarènes Editions
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
French
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Luc Praylors, médecin généraliste proche de la soixantaine, mène une existence tranquille jusqu'au jour o la maladie emporte Amélie, sa femme adorée, atteinte d'une tumeur au cerveau. Brisé par cette perte dévastatrice, il décide de mettre fin à ses jours en s'isolant dans un chalet reculé au bord d'un lac de montagne. Mais au moment fatidique, alors qu'il se prépare à franchir le dernier pas, une apparition improbable bouleverse son...
9. Thin Ice
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Frank Tayell
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Twenty years after the apocalyptic Blackout, steam-trains and the telegraph have replaced smartphones and satellites, but while some still fear technology, many dream of its return. In France, winter has brought the terrorist insurgency to a frozen stalemate. On the home front, thoughts turn to spring and the dream of a more peaceful future. The Houses of Parliament are finally relocating to a new permanent home in Highcliffe Castle on the British...
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Le Cri
Pub. Date:
2015
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French
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Un polar historique au coeur du Paris du XIXe siècle Paris. Vers le milieu du Second Empire. Un soir de novembre. Annabella Cruz, une jeune prostituée voisine d'Edmond et Jules Goncourt, est mystérieusement assassinée sur le palier des deux écrivains. Ce meurtre, dont on ne connaît pas l'auteur, va entraîner, avec l'intervention du commissaire Fenouil, une cascade d'étranges événements dans l'immeuble du 43, rue Saint-Georges, o résident...
11. New Year's Eve
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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A stellar ensemble cast celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.
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New Line Productions, Inc. :
Pub. Date:
[2000]
Language:
English
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The lives of courageous NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his beautiful schoolteacher wife Jillian are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for 2 minutes. But neither Spencer nor Jillian knows that those 120 seconds of terror will ultimately threaten their sanity, their future and their lives in this heart-stopping psychological thriller.
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Criterion collection volume 359
Publisher:
Criterion Collection
Language:
Polish
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Weronika is a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, is a French music teacher. Though they are unknown to each other, the two women share an enigmatic, purely emotional bond. The two were born on the same day and each senses that somewhere there exists another person with whom their lives are intertwined.