Dylan Baker
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An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics. Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically prove that the universe is governed by specific laws, can explain why planes fly and how matter interacts....
62) Miss Sloane
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In the world of political power brokers, Washington lobbyist Elizabeth Sloane takes on the most powerful opponent of her career and will do whatever is required to win.
63) Boomerang
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Between 2002 and 2008, the world embraced a wave of cheap credit that allowed people to enjoy spoils they usually wouldn't be able to afford. However, when the bubble burst in late 2008, everything came crashing down, including most of Europe. Here, Michael Lewis investigates the causes of the 2008 financial meltdown and projects what awaits the countries that were, and still are, most affected.
64) Chicago 10
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A look at what happened during the anti-war protest of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the subsequent trail brought against the protest organizers by the city. Includes animation, archival footage, and music from today's artists.
66) Head of state
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When a presidential candidate is needed just a few weeks before the election, Washington picks Mays Gilliam, a powerless politician they plan to use as their puppet, certain that he will lose. Buy Mays won't go down that easy. If he is going to run, he is going to do it his way and have fun doing it that way as well.
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Just after 9/11, the U.S. was rocked by another deadly act of terrorism when letters containing anthrax were sent to unsuspecting victims. The anonymous assault claimed five lives and caused panic throughout the country. Despite inter-agency turf wars and several false leads, FBI investigators closed in on a shocking prime suspect: a scientist embedded in the top-security USAMRIID lab with unfettered access to the world's most deadly pathogens.
69) Fido
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Timmy's best friend in the whole world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. When Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the Earth to keep Fido a part of the family.
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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
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The inspirational account of a team rising to meet the ultimate challenge of winning back its honor. To Oxford University, "The Boat Race"--An annual rowing competition between Oxford and its archrival Cambridge - is more important than the Olympics. So when Oxford's long winning streak ends in humiliating defeat, they vow victory the next year at all costs. But the method they choose threatens to tear the team apart while setting up a struggle between...
74) Outpost
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A woman seeks recovery from a violent assault by taking a job as a fire lookout but is overwhelmed by her isolation and tragic past.
75) Happiness
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A dark comedy that centers around three sisters struggling to achieve happiness and middle class perfection. Includes illicit sexual behavior.
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John Lyshitski likes to steal cars, has a weed problem, and has been in Illinois' Rossmore State Penitentiary so many times, he knows the entire population of both staff and cons by name. Cursed with being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in possession of the wrong car, he's a repeat offender who has been deemed a lost cause. When the heartless judge, who has been behind most of his sentences, goes to the big court house in the sky, John decides...
77) About Sunny
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Single-mom Angela is trying to hold it together for her daughter Sunny. At her breaking point, Angela is faced with an impossible choice: can she give up what she loves most for the promise of a better life for Sunny?
78) Lock out
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Released after 20 years in prison, ex-con Charlie Sundstrom returns to his hometown to find his estranged son, who has disappeared into the criminal underworld, is being hunted by a ruthless gang leader. Charlie enlists the help of a rogue corrections officer to help in the search. But the CO has a tragic past of his own. Soon their desperate lives will clash in a game-changing climax.
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In June of 2002, Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped, at knifepoint, from her own bedroom in Salt Lake City. On TV, the tired faces of Ed and Lois Smart, plead for the return of their daughter. Reveals never-before-seen details of the true story of an ordinary family forced to endure their worst nightmare. Within hours of the abduction, the Smart family was thrown into the national spotlight. When Elizabeth was found alive, no one could have predicted she...