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"Considerada por la cr?tica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, Crimen y castigo es un profundo an?lisis psicol?gico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Rask?lnikov, cuya firme creencia en que los fines humanitarios justifican la maldad le conduce al asesinato de una usurera. Pero, desde que comete el crimen, la culpabilidad ser? una pesadilla constante con la que el estudiante ser? incapaz de convivir. La presente edici?n de una de las...
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2014.
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English
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The complete collection of short stories written for the Dark-Hunter series includes "Phantom Lover" and "Love Bytes" as well as a new, previously unreleased title and tales that have only been published exclusively on the author's website.
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English
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"Pete is content in his simple life in a remote Montana town, but elderly widow Wilma is busy meddling in Pete's life to make up for past wrongs. When the sister Pete was separated from as a child shows up, Pete must confront a difficult past, and Wilma discovers her long-awaited chance at redemption may come at too high a price"--
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Rhythms of redemption volume 1
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English
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"He's determined to confront the past she's desperate to forget. When Adeline Green's now-famous high school crush descends on her quiet life, a public spotlight threatens to expose her deepest regret. After eight years of trying to bury her mistakes under a life of service, she's broke financially and spiritually. The last thing she can afford is feelings for the man who took center stage in her past--even if he does claim to know the secret to...
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Raja Sharma
Pub. Date
2015.
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1 online resource.
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English
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Rhinoceros" by Eugene Ionesco was written in 1959. It was originally written in French. This highly remarkable play is in three acts. It belongs to the school of drama that is known as the "Theatre of the Absurd. The play is set in a small provincial French town. Over the course of the three acts of the play, the inhabitants of this small town turn into rhinoceroses. The central character, Berenger, is the only human being who does not become a rhinoceros...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Widescreen.
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English
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Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.
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English
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"Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi: India's holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire. As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the...
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"An award-winning journalist's voyage into her family history and her quest to face the storms she encounters there. In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barbara Walshwho has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her careerfaces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland...
10) Tsotsi
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Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
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Widescreen.
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1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Zulu
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A young man running with a criminal gang on the streets of Johannesburg, Tsotsi - a nickname meaning thug - is immersed in a world of violence that seems to leave him unaffected, until he discovers an infant in the backseat of a car he has stolen.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts-- escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi-- and their adventures as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
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2023.
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English
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Victorian explorer William Day, 13 years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A drama that charts the emotional odyssey of a struggling novelist whose life is turned upside down one wintry night following a fatal car accident. The incident sets him on a soul searching, decades long journey towards redemption, a quest that profoundly touches the lives of both his girlfriend and the accident victim's mother.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a mythical world filled with magic and bewitchment, crops are dwindling, dragons have reappeared, and humanity is giving way to chaos. Journey with Lord Archmage Sparrowhawk, a master wizard, and Arren, a troubled young prince, on a tale of redemption and self-discovery as they search for the force behind a mysterious imbalance in the land of Earthsea.
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Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (380 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place (who doesn't know he's made a mistake), she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or, at least, the pretty good) person within.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (380 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place (who doesn't know he's made a mistake), she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or, at least, the pretty good) person within.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (380 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop, an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs. While hiding in plain sight from Michael, the wise architect of the Good Place (who doesn't know he's made a mistake), she's determined to shed her old way of living and discover the awesome (or, at least, the pretty good) person within.
18) Levity
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Manuel Jordan has done time in prison for accidentally killing a kid during an attempted robbery. After being released, he returns to the town where he committed the crime in hopes of seeking salvation. He ends up in a community center where he meets a pastor, who helps him out. Trying to find redemption for his sins, he befriends Adele, who just happens to be the sister of the boy he shot in the robbery. He also meets teenaged Sofia, a rich girl...
19) Wise blood
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Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
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A young war veteran who returns to a Tennessee mountain town to found a new religion blinds himself with quicklime and in dying finds his own salvation.
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Series
Noel collection volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to The Noel Diary finds a humiliated and depressed woman, reeling from a scandal that ended her marriage, finding renewal in a relationship with a man who hides a dark past.
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