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1) The notebook
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Noah Calhoun regularly visits Allie Nelson who is in a nursing home because of Alzheimer's. He reads to her from an old, faded notebook containing the account of a young couple, how they met, fell in love, and confronted obstacles to their happiness. It is their own story and sometimes she remembers.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after twenty years of living in America, Amir returns...
3) Snowpiercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car by car up to the front of the train, where the oppressive...
Series
Divergent volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
7) Howards End
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Margaret and Helen Schlegel are sisters from a well-educated European family. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the very English Wilcox family. Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast and his wife, a couple near the lowest tier of the rigid class system. Leonard's desire for cultural and intellectual status attracts the attention of Helen. Margaret must reconcile her independent spirit with her desire for companionship...
8) Insurgent
Series
Divergent volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Triśєєs family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed and desperate to escape her oppressive, upper-class English in-laws, free-spirited Lilia Herriton finds refuge in the ancient landscapes of rural Italy, where she impulsively marries a handsome Italian; however, when a child is born, tragedy strikes, and Lilia's scandalized relatives embark on a plot to bring her young son to England for a "proper" upbringing.
10) Miss Julie
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The daughter of a wealthy aristrocrat begins an affair with one of the family servants.
Language
English
Description
Set in a richly portrayed society well-stocked with eccentric nobles and gossipy villagers, this story centers around 17-year-old Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a respected country doctor. The well-ordered world of Molly's childhood is soon to be complicated by new people and unexpected situations. Most devastating is her father's decision to remarry after many years of widowhood. Molly's faltering efforts to cope gracefully with an impossible...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elizabeth Bennet is a strong-willed yet sensible young woman, the second of five sisters. She has a long-suffering but loving clerical father, and a scatterbrained mother anxious to marry them off as soon as possible--to wealthy young gentlemen. At a local ball, she encounters one such, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds arrogant, cold, and rude. Her older sister Jane falls in love with Darcy's best friend Mr. Bingley, while youngest sister Lydia...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The worldwide phenomenon Downton Abbey becomes a grand motion picture event, as the beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance, and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance. Written by series creator Julian Fellowes and starring the original cast.
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
DIVERGENT (2 hrs. 19 min.): Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris (Shailene Woodley), a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents.
INSURGENT (1 hr. 59 min.): Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine...
18) Howards end
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A tragic series of events occurs when two impulsive sisters become involved with a working-class couple and a wealthy family.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"At the Cirque de Paris, society magician and famous disappearing artist Chéri-Bibi performs his act before a well-heeled Parisian audience. While Cecile, his friend and admirer, waits in his dressing room, unable to watch the daring feat, Chéri, with his hands and legs bound, is lowered into a tank of water. The audience grows silent as the clock ticks away, and firemen wait on the sidelines, prepared to rescue the magician should he fail to emerge...
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