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Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
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A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's...
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Gwyn Hillerman acts as a nurse at her father's medical practice in 1935 rural Alaska. Her mother, hating Alaska, had returned to Chicago with Gwyn's younger sister. There Sophia's engagement to Dr. Jeremiah Vaughan ends when he loses his medical license after the death of an affluent patient. Then the government decides to send a group of families to Alaska for a better life, and Dr. Hillerman urges Jeremiah to join his practice.
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Evie loves healing people, and her medical work takes up so much time she never thinks about marrying anyone--so when Wormy, her friend and often test subject, suddenly proposes to her, Evie turns him down, not being in love with him in that way. Lucinda, though, doesn't approve of her rejection, and curses Evie to be a hideous ogre. If she does not find another suitor within sixty-two days she will be stuck as an ogre forever.
5) Good enough
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In the hospital where she is receiving treatment for anorexia, twelve-year-old Riley records her days in her journal--going to therapy, rediscovering her love of art, dealing with her rule-breaking roommate, and worrying about relapse once she returns home.
6) Frankenstein
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Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves. Presented in Spanish.
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The last and greatest of Dostoevsky's novels, The Brothers Karamazov is a towering masterpiece of literature, philosophy, psychology, and religion. It tells the story of intellectual Ivan, sensual Dmitri, and idealistic Alyosha Karamazov, who collide in the wake of their despicable father's brutal murder. Into the framework of the story Dostoevsky poured all of his deepest concerns -- the origin of evil, the nature of freedom, the craving for meaning...
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This classic adaptation of Graham Greene's 1938 novel stars a memorable Richard Attenborough as Pinkie, a teenage gangster who pretends to fall in love with an innocent girl. The film is known as one of the finest, and darkest, achievements of 1940s film noir. Also starring Carol Marsh as Rose, William Hartnell as Dallow, and Hermione Baddeley as Ida. Directed by John Boulting; produced by Roy Boulting.
10) Mood Indigo
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Set in a surreal Paris,Michel Gondry finds inspiration from Boris Vian's cult novel to provide the foundation for this visionary and romantic love story starring Audrey Tautou (Amélie) and Romain Duris.