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"When a girl is found dead at her elite boarding school, soccer-star Kay Donovan follows a scavenger hunt which implicates suspects increasingly close to her, unraveling her group of popular friends and perfectly constructed life"--
Kay Donovan has reinvented herself: she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. When Jessica Lane's body is found in the lake, Kay's...
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Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of Palestinian and Israeli peace activists, People Like Us takes readers on an insightful and poignant journey spanning the five decades of the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank, Palestine, told through the narratives of a diverse cast of remarkable characters.
Hassan spent his youth clashing with the Israeli army on the streets of Aida refugee camp until one tragic day when he lost his brother to...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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English
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It's the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular social class? Class can be harder to spot than racial or ethnic differences, yet in many ways it's the most important predictor of what kind of financial and educational opportunities someone will have in life. But class is a hard subject...
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The inspiring story of political newcomers (sometimes also newcomers to America) who are knocking down built-in barriers to creating better government The system is rigged: America's political leadership remains overwhelmingly white, male, moneyed, and Christian. Even at the local and state levels, elected office is inaccessible to the people it aims to represent. But in People Like Us, political scientist Sayu Bhojwani shares the stories of a diverse...
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People Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey's biography. A Long Way Home is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who loved him. It is a love story of two people, a writer and a dancer, born to be together for all eternity. A Long Way Home is the memoir Rob Lacey would have written himself. He never got the...
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"I want to die fully alive so my soul's got extended capacity for heaven." - Rob Lacey. People Like Us is the story of Rob Lacey, poet, actor, and award-winning author of The Street Bible. It is so much more than Rob Lacey's biography. People Like Us is the passionate and poetic account of an artistic soul enamored with God, and of the woman who loved him. It is a love story of two people, a writer and a dancer, born to be together for all eternity....
10) People like us
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Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures [distributor]
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c2012
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A twenty-something, fast-talking salesman latest deal collapses the day he learns his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home to put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. While there, he uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down, he has a 30-year-old sister he never knew existed.
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I want to shake Rita. She thinks all the screwed-up things in the world are happening somewhere else. But bad things are happening right here.
It's a routine Libby's used to by now: pack up, move, start over, repeat. This time it's to Rubberville-population: faces, names, a few factories, and Angie, a girl who nearly-but-not-quite gets Libby killed the first day they meet. Angie is everything Libby wishes she were: outspoken, fearless, and happy...
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El dentista-convertido-en-autor mexicano Vades debuta con seis curentos extradordinarios del horror, de emocieones eroticas y de fantasmas. Los vicios son los protagonistas aqui, esforzandose a la superficie de los caracteres que habitan. En el cuento titular, una pareja en um fin de semana trabajador en las montanas desubre un escondrijo macabro en su casa alquidalia; la avaricia causa que su relacion se agria. En dos otros cuentos, la codicia figura...
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Is God really for us? It has been said that no person ever rises above their view of God. Whom we worship, what we worship, is irrevocably tied to who we become. Worship predicts identity.
Without a new vision of God there can be no new vision of hope. In the middle of Luke's Gospel, in chapter 15, are three of Jesus's most treasured parables. They are the "holy, holy, holy" of Luke's Gospel. The parable of the lost sheep, the parable of the lost...
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2009]
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BBC interviewer Roy Mallard travels the country to talk to ordinary folk. Mallard has little or no skill as an interviewer, he is over-earnest, and after most of his voice-overs, you realize there's something slightly odd about what he's said. He's apt to talk nonsense and is so obviously unattractive there's a running joke that nobody can believe he's married.
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Saints at Heart presents an engaging picture of the spiritual life as shown in the experience and writings of the saints. The title announces the book's double theme: the lives of holy men and women who have consecrated their lives to God, and to the possibility of our following them and also dedicating our hearts to God. Readers will discover in this book well-told and appealing stories of women and men, ordinary human beings like themselves, who...
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Croatoan
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[2015]
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"Over the past four decades, attending a midnight showing of Rocky Horror has become a right of passage for American teens; something as ubiquitous as attending one's first rock concert, or first high school party. The raucous shows are part vaudeville's last gasp -- with their explicitly bawdy humor- and part new religion for the sexually liberated and socially progressive. It's an environment where bold sexual innuendos and puns are used freely...
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