Keith David
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English
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"What does 'allegiance' mean?" the New Teacher asked, hand over her heart.
In this classic and chilling tale about an elementary school classroom in post-war occupied America, James Clavell brings to light the vulnerability of children and the power educators have to shape and change young minds. Originally written in the Cold War era, Clavell's extraordinary and enduringly relevant allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read...
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Academy-Award winner Athol Fugard, one of theatre's most acclaimed playwrights, finds humor and heartbreak in the friendship of Harold, a 17-year old white boy in 1950's South Africa, and the two middle aged black servants who raised him. Racism unexpectedly shatters Harold's childhood and friendships in this absorbing, affecting coming of age play. The play, initially banned from production in South Africa, is a Drama Desk Award winner for Outstanding...
23) Pitch black
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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A remote planet. The marooned passengers of their crash-landed ship soon learns that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's...
24) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
25) Armageddon
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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The U.S. government calls upon an oil-well driller and his colorful crew to save the world by flying to an asteroid that's on a collision course for earth and setting off a nuclear bomb to divert it.
27) Service To Man
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English
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It's 1967, the world is at war, the country is on fire, and Nashville's legendary black medical school has just admitted its first white student.
32) Ray Meets Helen
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English
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In bizarre, unrelated turns of events, two strangers Ray (Keith Carradine) and Helen (Sondra Locke) each happen upon large sums of money which give them the chance to re-invent themselves.
33) The Wedding Year
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English
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A commitment-phobic 27-year old's relationship is put to the test when she and her boyfriend attend 7 weddings in the same year.
34) Dirty
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English
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Two gangbangers-turned-cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.
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"In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, George Saunders guides the reader through seven classic Russian short stories he's been teaching for twenty years as a professor in the prestigious Syracuse University graduate MFA creative writing program. Paired with stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, these essays are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. Saunders approaches...
