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Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
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"At the age of thirty-nine, Alice Chang suddenly finds herself living in the last place she expected: her mother's house. But in the face of divorce, eviction, and the recent death of her father, she doesn't have a choice. Watching as her mother thrives in a new job and meets younger men at the local gym, Alice struggles, reflecting on her parents' marriage, her relationship with each of them, as she adjusts to being single again for the first time...
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Claudie Wells believes everyone has a talent - everyone except for her. She's growing up in New York City's Harlem neighborhood during the 1920s. Her world is filled with writers and poets, painters and sculptors, actors and dancers, singers and musicians. Claudie wants more than anything to be a person whose imagination can fly instead of a person whose feet are stuck on the ground. She tries dancing, singing, painting, and even baking, but none...
24) Mulberry St
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The city that never sleeps may have shut its eyes for good when a deadly infection turns its residents into savage creatures. There is only hope for a small few, including six recently evicted tenants who must protect their rundown apartment complex as the city around them is thrown into complete chaos.
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Ty Buchanan novels volume 2
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"In the second fast-paced novel featuring trial lawyer Ty Buchanan, the murder of a client will force Ty into the underbelly of L.A. to protect the child she left behind"--Provided by the publisher.
29) RoboCop 3
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"When the ruthless corporation that runs Motor City begins kicking families out of their homes to clear space for a profitable new real estate project, RoboCop joins forces with a renegade band of freedom fighters to save them. But RoboCop must face some deadly foes, including a lethally efficient android and a dangerous gang of thugs. RoboCop's latest arsenal of high-tech weaponry only somewhat evens the battlefield, as this lone superhero takes...
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Terri runs a successful dog bakery and pet accessories shop, is an animal rescue volunteer, and the loving owner of two easily excitable dogs. And she's just met handsome, pet-loving Carter. Then the evil, dog-hating landlord of her shop hands her an eviction notice, prompting Terri to begin a campaign to save her store. Can their relationship last once Terri learns that Carter is involved with the very company evicting her from her store?
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Mr. Big, the neighborhood gangster, sends his attorney to give Miss B an eviction notice. This neighborhood salon must rally together - stylists and customers - to help raise the money to save the salon. There are many obstacles along the way and plenty of fighting. Tyron, the neighborhood "Don Juan" has gotten between all the ladies in the salon. Now the stylists are competing for clients.
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Aspiring 20-year old dancer Samnang and his family face the impending demolition of their lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the loss of a close-knit community in the White Building, a historical apartment block. They find their lives suddenly shattered by the news of their home's impending demolition and are forced to face the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.
34) La barraca
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This classic is recognized as one of Mexico's Top 25 movies of all time! Director, Gavaldn̤, adapted the 1895 novel by Vicente Blasco Ibǹez for this movie. In rural Spain, a new family arrives in town to work a parcel; the townsfolk are very hostile to the idea of ₁another₂ working the land that once belonged to one of them.
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They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to build a better, safer life. They found places to settle down--but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community was evicted from their land. Many did not leave their homes quietly; they put up a legal--and at...
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"As the Great Recession and the foreclosure crisis hit, four close friends who barely made it out of poverty in New York City's South Bronx, suddenly find themselves caught up in the economic maelstrom. Lena, Zack, Dory, and Stu must reconcile their troubled past with an uncertain future in Beverly Gologorsky's stunning new novel, a tapestry of working-class life in a world on the brink"--Back cover.
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