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On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is Shinzo¯-on no A¯kaibu, a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo.
Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls meet: Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his home-town...
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A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered.
Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali, he hasn't spoken to his eldest daughter Mitali in months,...
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When life turns unbearably miserable, a lonely old man takes part in a medical experiment, reviving a long-forgotten story of his love.
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In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homosexual episode--and murder--joins the Fascists in a desperate attempt to fit in. As the reluctant Judas motors to his personal Gethsemane (the assassination of his leftist mentor), he flashes back to a dance party for the blind; an insane asylum in a stadium; and wife Stefania Sandrelli and lover Dominique Sanda dancing the tango in a working class...
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From one of Australia's most celebrated authors comes a powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control, pairing the claustrophobic intensity of Room and My Year of Rest and Relaxation with the youthful angst of Freshwater.
Sixteen and pregnant, Karuna finds herself trapped in her mother's Melbourne public housing apartment for one hundred days awaiting the birth of her child-and her mother's next move in a shocking...
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Studio City volume 1
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Actor Sam Stevens struggles to strike a work-life balance filming his dream role. Doc hides his opiate addiction.
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Studio City volume 4
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Sam has an unexpected blast from the past. Nick uses Sam's absence from Hearts on Fire to his advantage.
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Studio City volume 6
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Gloria and Jacoby form an alliance. While facing Doc's mortality, Sam and Doc find a peaceful co-existence. Sam gets vulnerable with Delilah.
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Studio City volume 5
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Sam faces the harsh reality of what it means to be an actor in Hollywood. Shelby confides in Sam.
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Studio City volume 3
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Sam gets blasted after taking bad advice from Shelby. Delilah puts Sam in check about her paternity.
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Studio City volume 2
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Gloria spars with the network to keep Hearts of Fire from being canceled. Jacob makes a shifty move to take control.
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A gang led by banker Calvin Drake plans to drive off ranchers from their land to profit from a railroad. However, on one of these ranches, the Circle R, lives the Ryder family who resist the gang. After his father, Tom, is killed by One Eye Chapin, Red Ryder swears revenge and sets out to defeat the gang once and for all.
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Filmed during Cash's concert tour of the US in the late Sixties, this film offers a carefully airbrushed account of the star's life on and off stage. While attracting huge audiences wherever he goes, as well as winning awards, he remains eminently normal, the kind of man who willingly signs autographs, listens to pieces of doggerel composed by adoring fans, and poses for innumerable photos
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An alcoholic, falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. The drama depicts the slow deterioration of a marriage due to alcoholism as ambitious ad man Joe Clay (Robertson) gets his wife Kristen to join him in drinking bouts that soon begin to destroy their lives...This is the highly acclaimed 1958 live TV version.
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Studio City volume 1
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Actor Sam Stevens and the cast of Hearts on Fire, America's #2 daytime drama, navigate the chaotic world of soap operas and their own messy lives.
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Studio City volume 8
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Difficult decisions are made as reflections come to light. Doc (Emmy winner Tristan Rogers) makes his wishes known in Violet's absence.
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Studio City volume 4
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The tension between Sam and Gloria grows as he looks for new opportunities but a conversation between Sam and his mother could derail it all.
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