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Now showing — The Tale of the Princess Kaguya · 5 works
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In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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In a fairy tale come to life, the clumsy, sweet, and gentle Ahiru seems like an unlikely protagonist. In reality, Ahiru is just as magical as the talking cats and crocodiles that inhabit her town—for Ahiru really is a duck! Transformed by the mysterious Drosselmeyer into a human girl, Ahiru soon learns the reason fo...
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The Corleone family saga. Power, loyalty, and the corruption of the American dream.
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