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141) Blackboard jungle
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Urban drama about an idealistic teacher in a slum area who fights doggedly to connect with his unruly students. Based on Evan Hunter's novel.
142) Akira
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日本語
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Clandestine army activities threaten the war-torn city of Neo-Tokyo when a mysterious being with powerful psychic abilities escapes his prison and inadvertently draws a violent motorcycle gang into a heinous web of experimentation. As a result, a biker with a twisted mind embarks on a path of war, seeking revenge against a society that once called him weak.
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When Kuwabara learns the truth about Genkai's demise, he takes the news hard, wondering why Yusuke waited so long to tell him. Then the elder Toguro reappears and taunts the team about Genkai's death! It's not a good idea to tease those experiencing great sorrow - a lesson the elder Toguro quickly learns, but not from the one you'd expect to teach him.
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When her late father's diaries are discovered after a tragic accident, Elizabeth, whose eyesight has failed, explores the diaries and the mysteries of her past with the help of Morgan, a delinquent teenager performing community service at Elizabeth's retirement home.
146) Good behavior
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Traces the author's teenage criminal activities involving drugs, sex, and guns before his imprisonment for armed robbery, describing the adolescent fantasies that culminated in his violent behavior and the time he spent in jail.
148) Juice
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Q, Raheem, Bishop and Steel are four Harlem friends who spend their days hanging out and looking for a way to get the power and respect they call Juice. Q hopes to earn respect by becoming a scratch "n" mix DJ. Bishop has a deadlier plan. He wants to take it through an armed robbery. And he wants his crew to be with him.
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"Can high school delinquent Mafuyu clean up her act and still kick some butt?! Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter's wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country. Mafuyu and the Public Morals Club are trying to investigate the Beast of Kiyama High, but his super strength and advanced...
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Mafuyu is happy to be going on a normal school trip with the chance to relax and enjoy the activities, unlike in her delinquent past when school trips were about beating up hooligans from other schools. But it turns out her old rivals are in the same town on their school trip. Will they ruin her opportunity to have a normal experience?
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"Kazama Kenji thinks he's a delinquent. He's got the look, the style and the attitude to match-he even has a second-rate entourage of sorts. Deep down, however, Kazama is a goodhearted kid who finds himself and his loyal gang in over their heads when they stumble upon the Game Creation Club. The club's formidable members, Chitose, Sakura, Minami, and Roka, are four girls whom he might actually be attracted to if they weren't so freaking weird. The...
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"Kazama Kenji thinks he's a delinquent. He's got the look, the style and the attitude to match-he even has a second-rate entourage of sorts. Deep down, however, Kazama is a goodhearted kid who finds himself and his loyal gang in over their heads when they stumble upon the Game Creation Club. The club's formidable members, Chitose, Sakura, Minami, and Roka, are four girls whom he might actually be attracted to if they weren't so freaking weird. The...
156) Run, baby, run
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"Nicky Cruz's powerful story of redemption, salvation and transformation is a powerful testament to the glorious transformative power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A vicious fighter, criminal, drug user, drunkard and thief he was the leader of one of New York City's most violent gangs, the Mau Mau. But all that changed when he met David Wilkerson, author of The Cross and the Switchblade, who refused to give up on Nicky Cruz. When he finally met Jesus...
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"The conclusion of the long and deadly Dark Tournament. After the Dark Tournament ends, Yusuke and friends come home for a much deserved rest. The vacation is cut short when Yusuke is taken hostage by three classmates who have recently gained strange powers. It's up to Kuwabara and friends to try and rescue him. But without their star fighter's abilities, will they be up to the task?"--Cover.
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"It's summertime, and the students of Midorigaoka Academy are indulging in the time-honored tradition of a test of courage! A walk through a "haunted woods," it beats the heat by chilling the blood and forms bonds of friendship through shared terror. It's the perfect activity for Mafuyu! But not everyone joining the fun has pure-hearted revelry in mind--some mysterious villains are using the test of courage as a cover to attack the Public Morals Club!"...
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"Someone has been blackmailing members of the Public Morals Club into resigning! Mafuyu and Hayasaka have figured out what got Akki and Okegawa to quit, but Yui rejoined the student council and they haven't seen him for days. Worried about their friend, they break into his room to find him. But Yui's defection wasn't coerced--and he's more determined than ever to protect Miyabi's interests! Will this be the end to more that just their friendship?!"--...