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Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar "Why didn't they ask Evans?".The Seven Dials mystery:...
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See how it all began, and discover the secret behind the legend of Disney's most inspiring new Crown Princess! Frozen in time and trapped inside the Amulet of Avalor for over forty years, Elena has finally found the one brave princess who can set her free: Sofia! Together with magical flying jaquins, spirit animal Zuzo, and young wizard-in-training Mateo, Princess Elena must unite her people, battle the evil Queen Shuriki, and reclaim her throne.
85) Zapped
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When sixteen-year-old Zoey's mom remarries, Zoey finds it hard adjusting to her new life. She's got a new family, a new home, a new school. After a freak accident with her smart phone, she finds she has a magical app which can control the boys around her. With this app she can make the boys more thoughtful, behaved, better versions of themselves and make her life much easier!
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Izzy, a spunky nine year-old, gets left at school on the last day before Christmas break. While her parents brave a blizzard to reach her, three bumbling crooks break into the school to hide out until the heat dies down. But when they take Ray, the school janitor, hostage, Izzy will have to find a way to save him and teach the crooks a lesson.
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Dare to enter a mysterious realm, where the cost of admission just might be your soul. From the dark imagination of renowned author R.L. Stine. When a traveling Hall of Horrors show arrives in the town of Danville, the high school friends can't wait to get spooked. The monsters, zombies, and ghouls are completely lifelike, and the villainous showman, Dr. Hysteria, and his enchanting assistant, Lilith, really know how to turn up the scares.
89) The glass virgin
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Raised by a dissolute father and distant mother, Annabella finds herself cast out at age 17, with a loyal childhood friend as her sole protector.
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Cassie Nightingale has settled into Middleton and is busy making a home of Grey House. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Jake Russell, and his kids are happy to have Cassie in the neighborhood, but she has yet to gain the trust of some people in town. Before long, a stranger rolls into town with papers entitling him to legal ownership of Grey House. Before she knows it, Cassie is left without a home and is convinced Middleton isn't where she belongs.
91) Christmas angel
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Christmas Angel is the story of a young girl's dream for her wish to have a complete family come true. While working on a class assignment to write a paper on My Impossible Christmas Wish, Olivia Mead quickly takes note of unusual happenings. As her wishes come true she is convinced the miracles are linked to a mysterious woman she believes is an angel.
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Miss Marple visits her old school friend Lady Tressilian at the formidable aristocrat's Devon estate. Eyebrows arch higher when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive but high maintenance new wife. Nevile's first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and unresolved jealousies that lead to murder.
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Revisiting a glamorous London hotel that she remembers fondly from her girlhood, Miss Marple finds that nothing has changed, including the atmosphere of danger beneath its highly polished veneer. She observes various other guests, including fortune hunters and other unsavory characters, and comes to realize the truth about the hotel is even darker than she had imagined.
94) The great Gatsby
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Jay Gatsby is a man possessed--driven by greed, ambition and, most of all, an unwavering desire for a woman he met before the Great War, when he was poor and she was unobtainable. F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece is an extraordinary journey into the heart of the American Dream and out the other side, where the spoils of success do not always suffice. This lively and lavish adaptation from A & E captures the heady swirl of the Jazz Age in all its...
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A peaceful park amid the hustle and bustle seems like the perfect new home for a group of Mythical Pokemon: four Genesect and their red leader. These new neighbors quickly become a problem for the city's residents, though. The Genesect don't trust people, and they've found a dangerous ally in the Legendary Pokemon Mewtwo, whose origins also involve human tampering. But the red Genesect doesn't want Mewtwo's help, and their confrontation quickly rages...
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A geeky librarian is hired by the prestigious Metropolitan Library, keeper of such top-secret treasures as Excalibur and Pandora's Box. When the Serpent Brotherhood, seeking world domination, steals one of three parts of the magical Spear of Destiny from the library, only this librarian, aided by a gorgeous bodyguard, has the know how to thwart their plan. But does he know how to be a hero?
97) Animal farm
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In this political fable, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers to establish the democratic Animal Farm. But as the society evolves, leaders become rulers and totalitarianism is reestablished.
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Attorney Claudia is focused entirely on her career. She is about to miss the family get-together at Thanksgiving when a mysterious force whisks her into an alternate reality that shows her what life would be like if she married a husband and had children instead of putting her job first.
99) Behind the mask
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Tells the story of Dr. Robert Shushan, an overworked clinic director and absent father to his son, Brian. After suffering a heart attack, his life is saved by a patient. An unlikely hero is made and a friendship is born that proves to be life-altering.
100) State of play
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The murder of an ambitious politician's researcher leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover a complex thriller revealing the links between government and big business.