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1) Pandatage
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Pandas sind manchmal die besseren Väter.
Ein Glückspilz war Danny noch nie, aber seit seine Frau bei einem Unfall ums Leben gekommen ist, läuft gar nichts mehr glatt. Sein kleiner Sohn Will hat aufgehört zu sprechen, Danny verliert seinen Job, und als ihm auch noch sein Vermieter mit Rausschmiss droht, kauft er von seiner letzten Barschaft ein Pandakostüm, um als Tanzbär Geld zu verdienen. Anfangs macht sich Danny vor allen Dingen lächerlich,...
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Drei Frauen, die aus den Trümmern einer Katastrophe eine neue Gemeinschaft errichten
Eine Krise führt Angelina zurück an den magischen Ort ihrer Kindheit in Kansas. Dort begegnet sie zwei Frauen, die wie sie an einem Wendepunkt stehen: Traci, eine junge Künstlerin, und Gayle, die durch einen Tornado alles verloren hat. Schnell werden die drei füreinander unentbehrlich und entwickeln eine Schaffenskraft, die sie zu etwas ganz Neuem führt.
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Maya bindet sich weder an Orte noch an Menschen. Obwohl die Reisebloggerin erst 32 ist, hat sie schon fast die ganze Welt gesehen. Nur an einen Ort möchte sie niemals: nach La Gomera. Dort wohnt ihre Adoptivmutter Karoline. Dass Karoline nicht ihre leibliche Mutter ist, hat Maya vor Jahren durch einen Zufall erfahren und ihr bis heute nicht verziehen. Doch dann wird Maya schwanger, und Tobi, der Mann, mit dem sie eine flüchtige Affäre hatte, hält...
4) Swim
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It's the early Sixties. The Grateful Dead and free love are still around the corner. But the young woman in these three stories knows that sex is the coin of the realm. From Mexico to Mykonos, she is looking for a place to light, and she thinks she'll know when she is finally home. For sure she knows she doesn't want men to tell her how to live. She doesn't even want them saying her name.
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Hollywood actress Shauna Jackson left the Greek island of Ithos twenty years ago and thought she would never return. Reeling from a scandal that has tarnished her success, she is drawn back to the beautiful olive groves and endless azure skies — and to the secrets she has tried hard to forget. Looking down from his hilltop villa, enigmatic tycoon Demetrios Theodosis knows he can't change the past, and looks to the future through his tempestuous...
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Summary of Nick Hornby's Funny Girl is a novel by writer Nick Hornby set in Blackpool, England in 1964. It tells the story of twenty-one year old Barbara Parker, a beautiful blonde, who wants to become a comedic actress like Lucille Ball.
Barbara wins the Miss Blackpool beauty pageant. Barbara wants more than anything to get out of Blackpool. When she realizes the title of Miss Blackpool commits her to a year of hospital visits and charity events,...
9) The Liar
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In this classic farce, a young man pretends to be a war hero to impress a pretty girl. As his lies progress, so do his troubles – with hilarious results. Playwright Pierre Corneille's comedy of manners is considered a groundbreaking work which influenced contemporaries such as the young Molière.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production, starring Tara Lynne Barr, Janine Barris, Sue Cremin, Danny Mann, Christopher Neame, John Sloan, Mark Sullivan,...
10) Der undogmatische Hund - Eine Liebesgeschichte zwischen einer Frau, einem Mann und einem Jack Rus
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Als ein unfassbar niedlicher junger Hund beim Ehepaar Schenk/Scheck einzieht, bekommt die Liebe einen neuen Namen: Stubbs, ein im Ruhrpott geborener Jack Russell Terrier. Das neue Familienmitglied verändert nicht nur die Beziehungsdynamik der beiden, sondern auch ihren Blick auf die Welt: Sie wird reicher, kurioser, überraschender. Sogar ihre Sicht auf die Literatur verändert sich. Höchst amüsant und originell erzählt "Der undogmatische Hund"...
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BRAND NEW from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont comes a powerful story of memory, loss, love, and new beginnings…
When Shelley Woodhouse wakes up in hospital from a coma, the first thing she says is that her husband must be arrested.
He's the reason she's in here. She knows it. She remembers what he did. Clearly as anything.
But there are things Shelley has forgotten too, including parts of her childhood. And...
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Un mari à la porte ( A Husband at the Door) is a one-act operetta which was recorded at the Teatro del Maggio in occasion of the 200th anniversary of Offenbach's birth. Premiered in 1859, this rarely performed work is a most amusing comedy of errors, which is the typical frameset that the composer used to represent and mock the quirks and vices of the French society of his times.
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Big Hig gehört zu den Wenigen, die eine verheerende Epidemie überlebt haben. Ebenso wie sein einziger Nachbar, ein menschenfeindlicher Waffennarr mit dem Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, der ihn - brutal, aber verlässlich - beschützt. Hig lebt im Hangar eines verwilderten Flughafens und tuckert mit einer alten Cessna übers Gelände, sein Hund Jasper ist sein treuer Copilot. Eines Tages empfängt er plötzlich ein Funksignal von weit her. Gibt es doch...
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L'Italiana in Londra' was Domenico Cimarosa's first international triumph, thrilling audiences all over Europe after its premiere in 1778. It later became eclipsed by the even bigger success of 'Il matrimonio segreto' however, and has become a rarity on stage today. Set in a London hotel, this cheerful 'Intermezzo in musica' has cleverly crafted arias, duets and ensembles that drive the plot along, the story being one of thwarted love, quarrels and...
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The repressed bitterness, anger and disappointment simmering for years inside the Lee family finally erupt in Everything I Never Told You after daughter Lydia, her parents' favorite, disappears on May 3, 1977. It is a fine spring day in northern Ohio, where the family lives in Middlewood, a town an hour outside Toledo.
James and Marilyn Lee first look for their daughter among her friends, but they discover that Lydia has been maintaining an elaborate...
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Summary of Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life tells the story of Jude St. Francis and the people in his life. Jude, left partially disabled by a terrifying injury as a teenager, is distraught about his past and hides most of that past and himself from others, even those closest to him. The relationships he forms as a young and older adult sustain him longer than he ever expected to live, but in the end, Jude has faced too much abuse and heartache to...
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Summary of Judy Blume's In the Unlikely Event is a fictional account of a real series of plane crashes that took place between December 1951 and August 1952 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Miri Ammerman is a young Jewish girl. Her mother, Rusty, made the unusual choice, for the time period, to raise her daughter alone. They live with Rusty's mother, Irene, and brother, Henry, a reporter for the local paper. Miri's best friend, Natalie, is the daughter of...