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On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove--to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife--"that the hours of his life belong to himself alone." In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, a Little Sister of the Sick Poor, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child....
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Calla North's mother, Elizabeth, the world's foremost expert on all things duck, is given a research trip--very well-paid, of course--to the Amazon to study a rare species, leaving Calla bored and lonely at an Amazon boarding school. However, adventure finds Calla even there when she and her new friends decide to take on the evil new headmistress, and then must find out what happened to her mother's missing plane.
5) The assassin
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This take on the traditional wuxia film, set in 9th century China, centers on Nie Yinniang, a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts to be an assassin who is directed to slay corrupt government officials. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be and she will have to choose between sacrificing...
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