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41) The hideaways
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Claudia and Jamie, a sister and brother run away from home to the neatest hideout ever: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Neither imagines their expedition will plunge them into the mystery that has all New York abuzz. Everyone wants to know if the new statue of an angel donated to the museum by reclusive art collector Mrs. Frankweiler is a Michelangelo work. Claudia is sure that learning the answer will make her adventure a success, so she and Jamie...
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As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. Seita and his younger sister Setsuko are two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. They are forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities...
43) Serenity
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River Tam and her brother Simon are hiding out from the totalitarian government that experimented with River's brain aboard a space-freighter. Captained by a down on his luck soldier, the crew of Serenity must take jobs, whether they are legal or not, while trying to avoid the Alliance, and keeping the Tams safe. Then things get out of control and the true extent of River's powers becomes known. At the same time, the Alliance sends a new Operative...
44) Little women
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A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details to the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
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Artist Walter Hartright arrives at Limmeridge House to instruct wealthy half-sisters Marian and Laura Fairlie. Their peaceful lives are marred by a strange woman dressed in white, who brings disturbing warnings to the family. When Laura announces her engagement to the dashing Sir Percival Glyde, it seems the darkness haunting them is lifting. But new dangers lurk closer than ever, and the only hope for averting disaster lies with the secret held by...
46) Storage locker
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Comic book collector Packer Stanley falls for two beautiful sisters Apollonia and Diana Leto, who run a massive underground storage facility. Wannabe witch Apollonia has resurrected her dead father in a demonic boy and uses him to eliminate certain members of their secret society of rarities collectors. Packer seeks the Holy Grail of comics, the first appearance of "The Spyder" and is lured into the storage locker maze. There he faces off with the...
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Of all Jane Austen's books, Pride and Prejudice has earned a special place in the hearts of the reading public as her best-loved and most intimately known novel. From its famous opening sentence the story of the Bennet family and of the novel's two protagonists, Elizabeth and Darcy, told with a wit that its author feared might prove 'rather too light and bright, and sparkling', delights its most familiar readers as thoroughly as it does those who...
48) The boogeyman
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Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
50) Gretel & Hansel
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A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
52) The sisters
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Louise is a most appealing type of person, a warm, intelligent woman who loses her heart to a charming ne'er-do-well who marries, then deserts her. It takes the pandemonium of the San Francisco earthquake and two years of heartache to reunite them.
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Two siblings, Nessa and Ephra stein, children of a zionist arms procurer, now run a foundation aiming to reduce the conflict through increasing Palestine's economic prosperity. When Nessa's foundation is about to announce a major business contract with a prominent Palestinian businessman, he is found dead in an apparent suicide. As doubt circles around his cause of death, an international investigation turns into a manhunt.
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Join Arthur and his family and friends for eight stories about the joys and challenges of having a brother or sister. From D.W. copying her big brother's every move, to the Tibble twins discovering one of them is two whole minutes older, the program features loads of sibling fun.
56) Any day
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Vian McLean is an ex fighter who is filled with resentment. He killed a man with his bare hands and has just spent the last twelve years in prison for the crime. Upon his release from Prison he comes to stay with his Sister Bethley and her son Jimmy who gets to know Vian and looks up to his uncle as the greatest man he has ever known.
58) Please stand by
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A young woman escapes from her group home hoping to get her Star Trek script produced in Hollywood. With her sister and psychiatrist at her heels, she must conquer a new world full of challenges.