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The Godfather
09 $This mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don’s youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay , he is drawn deeper into the family business.
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The Godfather
09 $This mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone. When the don’s youngest son, Michael, reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay , he is drawn deeper into the family business.
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The Handmaid’s Tale
09 $A dystopian novel set in a totalitarian, theocratic state in former New England called the Republic of Gilead, where fertile women are forced to become “Handmaids” for the ruling class to repopulate.
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The Idiot
09 $A novel about Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin, a compassionate and innocent man who returns to Russian society after being treated for epilepsy.
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The Inmate
09 $aApsychological thriller about a single mother who returns to her hometown in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths. Memories of her past begin to haunt her when she takes a job at the federal prison where the father of her child, who once tried to kill her, is serving a life sentence for a triple homicide.
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The Intruder
09 $Casey, a woman living alone in a secluded cabin, who discovers a blood-covered young girl named Ella hiding in her toolshed with a knife during a storm.
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The Kite Runner
09 $1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what would happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption.
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The Knight and the Moth
09 $Follows Sybil, a foundling raised as a “Diviner” at the Aisling Cathedral, as she receives prophetic dreams from beings called Omens.
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The Last Letter
09 $An emotional military romance about Ella, a struggling single mother of twins who loses her brother in combat. His best friend, Beckett, moves to her town to fulfill a final promise to protect her, hiding his identity as her former anonymous pen pal while they fall in love.
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The Last Olympian
09 $Percy and his friends must defend Mount Olympus from the vengeful Titan lord, Kronos. As the ultimate battle unfolds, the fate of the entire world rests in their hands.
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The Last Straw
08 $Greg Heffley faces potential military school when his father, Frank, becomes fed up with his lazy, “wimpy” behavior and attempts to toughen him up with soccer, chores, and the “Wood Chippers” group.