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The Circle is a 2013 dystopian novel written by American author Dave Eggers. The novel chronicles tech worker Mae Holland as she joins a powerful Internet company. Her initially rewarding experience turns darker.
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Baltimore's institutions examined season by season. The novel as television.
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A New Jersey mob boss in therapy. The show that invented prestige television.
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The thirteenth novel in Emile Zola's great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity's capacity for compassion and hope.Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to...
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A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.
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