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2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America's gilded class, famous for the lavish 'summer cottages' of Vanderbilts and Belmonts. But Andie runs into trouble: the reclusive heiress who...
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"Set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest, and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die."...
3) My girl
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A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed mortician father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.
4) Metro exodus
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"Metro Exodus is a story-driven first-person shooter that blends deadly combat and stealth with exploration and survival horror in one of the most immersive game worlds ever created. Explore the Russian wilderness across vast, non-linear levels and follow a thrilling story line that spans an entire year through spring, summer, and autumn to the depths of nuclear winter."--From http://www.Amazon.com.
5) Lolita
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Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
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"One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet. Christian Wiman, a poet known for his meditations on mortality, has long been fascinated by joy and by its relative absence in modern literature. Why is joy so resistant to language? How has it become so suspect in our times? Manipulated by advertisers, religious leaders, and politicians, joy can seem disquieting, even offensive. How does one speak...
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"Pewnego włoskiego lata zdarzyć się może wszystko... Carol to wspaniała kobieta - matka z prawdziwego zdarzenia, najlepsza przyjaciółka i osoba znająca rozwiązanie na wszystkie problemy. Gdy umiera, w życiu jej córki Katy powstaje pustka, której nic nie jest w stanie wypełnić. Radzenie sobie z żałobą nigdy nie jest łatwe, a już na pewno nie wtedy, gdy życie rozpada się na kawałki. Dodatkowo nieubłaganie zbliża się termin...
9) Clearing
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"In the Summer of Love how can love be wrong? The story of four friends coming of age in Chicago in the small southwest side neighborhood of Clearing. Clearing, a melting pot welcoming of all peoples provided they are Irish, Polish, German or Italian. Clearing; a sheltered enclave...fiercely protective of preserving their status quo... fearful of change... fearful of infiltration. As our four friends wade into their teen years life takes them beyond...
10) The Villa
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"Słoneczne Włochy, umbriańska willa z mroczną historią, nierozwiązana zagadka tajemniczej śmieci sprzed lat...Wchodzisz na własne ryzyko! Emily i Chess jadą na wspólne wakacje, aby odbudować swoją dawną przyjaźń. Zatrzymują się w olśniewającej willi w Orvieto. Szybko odkrywają, że miejsce to kryje w sobie mnóstwo mrocznych sekretów. Pewnego lata w roku 1974 upojny czas spędzał tam bowiem okryty złą sławą gwiazdor rocka...
11) Luca
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Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
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