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181) Love me or leave me
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Roaring '20s songstress Ruth Etting had everything, the looks, the wiles, the smokey jazz voice, the it. She also had Chicago racketeer Martin 'The Gimp' Snyder, who, even as he propelled her career, afflicted her. Laced with Doris Day's vibrant performance of songs from the era [the film] is based on the tough-minded tale of Etting's life with the man who boosted her career with strong-arm tactics and smothered her in an obsessive grip she escaped...
182) Ostatni lot
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Polish
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Claire Cook wiedzie idealne życie u boku kochającego męża. Małżeństwo z zamożnym politykiem, luksusowe mieszkanie na Manhattanie i żadnych powodów do zmartwień. Ale to tylko pozory. Za zamkniętymi drzwiami ich domu nic nie jest takie, jak się wydaje. Apodyktyczny mąż nie dość, że nie potrafi zapanować nad swoim wybuchowym charakterem, to jeszcze śledzi każdy ruch żony, aby zyskać pewność, że Claire jest w stanie sprostać...
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Calamity Jane: Day and Howard Keel fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this entertainment mother lode. At first curvaceous Calamity is too darned busy fighting Indians and cracking a bullwhip to pay mind to such girly what-alls as dresses and perfume. And Wild Bill is too danged busy wooing a dainty chanteuse (Allyn McLerie) to give a hoot about a hotheaded tomboy. But things change in a rootin', tootin' big way when...
184) The stranger in us
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Small-town Anthony follows his heart to San Francisco, eager for domestic bliss with new boyfriend, Stephen. Soon Anthony faces a waking nightmare as their volatile relationship reaches the breaking point. Isolated and financially strained, Anthony takes to the nighttime city streets where he meets a strange and alluring cast of hook-ups and wanderers.
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Polish
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Powieść nominowana do nagrody Cwa New Blood Dagger. Trzymający w napięciu thriller, który do samego końca pozostawia czytelnika w niepewności, kto jest ofiarą, a kto sprawcą. Iskrząca napięciem historia o toksycznej miłości, traumie i zemście. Kochasz go. Wierzysz mu. Nie możesz od niego uciec. Ale niektórym się to udaje. Jak Mii, która w końcu uwalnia się od psychopatycznego męża, Roba. Niestety, kiedy wreszcie odzyskuje swoje...
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English
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A dramatic and timely exploration of domestic abuse, which examines the persistence of violence against women in the US, through the story of Kim, a mother of three in Duluth, MN. Duluth was the birthplace of a revolution in the way society approaches battering, and the film tells the story of the leaders from Duluth who remain on the front lines today. The film also looks at the debate launched by researchers and academics who have challenged the...
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Set in the late 1920s, in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, eighth grade Emerald is about to learn some hard lessons when a deeply disturbed man is thrust into her life by her abusive father and enabling mother. A blossoming young woman is accompanied by her friends and her foes on a journey toward hope and healing as she questions why her faith didn't save her from assault, and how she might protect herself.
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Data from the National Violence Against Women Survey show that the two major forms of husband violence toward their wives (intimate terrorism and situational couple violence) have different effects on their victims. Victims of intimate terrorism are attacked more frequently and experience violence that is less likely to stop. They are more likely to be injured, to exhibit more of the symptoms of posttraumatic stress syndrome, to use painkillers (perhaps...
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Español
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"Una novela oscura y mágica, una inolvidable colaboración entre dos de los narradores más renombrados de nuestros días: Guillermo del Toro y Cornelia Funke. En un reino subterráneo, donde no existían las mentiras ni el dolor, una princesa soñaba con los humanos. Un día escapó a nuestro mundo, el sol borró sus recuerdos y la princesa murió, pero su espíritu era inmortal. El rey no se daría por vencido: tenía la esperanza de que su hija...
194) Vipers and virtuosos
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Monsters and muses volume 2
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English
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"Vipers and Virtuosos is a full-length, standalone, dark contemporary romance based loosely on the framework/characters from the Orpheus and Eurydice myth."--
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Español
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Ocho tipologías de hombres peligrosos, estrategias de defensa, señales de alarma e historias reales de éxitos y de fracasos ¿Qué es un hombre peligroso? Muchas de nosotras pensamos de inmediato en alguien físicamente violento, pero hay otros comportamientos que también ponen en peligro no sólo el equilibrio espiritual y emocional de una mujer, sino también su calidad de vida."--Back cover.
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"London, 1944/45 Kate Henderson is an energetic and spirited young woman. As a trained paramedic and ambulance driver she does her work courageously and with determination, even though underneath she is still wrestling with grief after witnessing the shooting death of her diplomat father seven years earlier. Her father's murder was never properly investigated and it remains unsolved. Kate's life is drastically interrupted once more when she wakes...
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