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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
by (2009-05-12)
Screen Gems (92 minutes)
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(151)
An origins story centered on the centuries-old feud between the race of aristocratic vampires and their onetime slaves, the Lycans.
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Posted: Sunday, August 8, 2010 at 9:51 pm by Sylvhania
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Amreeka
by Cherien Dabis (2010-01-12)
Virgil Films and Entertainment (96 minutes)
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(15)
Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois.
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Posted: Saturday, July 24, 2010 at 12:37 pm by Sylvhania
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Lady in the Water
by M. Night Shyamalan (2006-12-19)
Warner Bros. Pictures (109 minutes)
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(390)
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. She is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home.
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Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 6:16 pm by Sylvhania
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Wintersmith
by Terry Pratchett (2007-10-02)
average customer review: (93)
Despite a stern warning from Miss Treason, the eccentric witch from whom 13-year-old Tiffany Aching is learning her craft, the girl has gone and danced with the wrong men. Having inserted herself into a dark reverse Morris dance in which summer and winter achieve their seasonal balance, Tiffany has attracted the amorous attentions of the Wintersmith.
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Posted: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 10:11 pm by Sylvhania
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Lives of Extraordinary Women: Rulers, Rebels (and What the Neighbors Thought)
by Kathleen Krull ()
average customer review: (8)
From Cleopatra to Eleanor Roosevelt, concise profiles provide fun and fascinating facts about notable female role models from around the globe.
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Posted: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 10:31 pm by Sylvhania
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Unseen Academicals
by Terry Pratchett (2009-10-06)
average customer review: (99)
Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett's 37th Discworld novel (after 2007's Making Money), an affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans.
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Posted: Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:33 am by Sylvhania
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The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
by Margarita Engle (2006-04-04)
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(5)
In plain, stirring free verse, Engle dramatizes the boyhood of the nineteenth-century Cuban slave Juan Francisco Manzano, who secretly learned to read and wrote poetry about beauty and courage in his world of unspeakable brutality.
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Posted: Monday, May 10, 2010 at 10:02 pm by Sylvhania
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Creature
by William Malone (2000-10-03)
Tgg Direct (97 minutes)
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(23)
A crew of scientists arrives on a far, cold planet to examine archaic artefacts of unknown origin. They discover that the Germans have already a ship there. They find only bodies, obviously slaughtered by one of the archaic creatures, awoken to new life. Now the alien is after them.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 3:31 pm by Sylvhania
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The Realization of Being
by Eckhart Tolle ()
average customer review: (14)
Words are useful signposts, Eckhart begins, but our main spiritual teacher is stillness. This powerful energy field is always available to us through meditation.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 12:10 pm by Sylvhania
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Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan (2005-05-10)
average customer review: (60)
High school sophomore Paul says, "There isn’t really a gay scene or a straight scene in our town. They got all mixed up a while back, which I think is for the best." And, as he observes at the end of the story, "It's a wonderful world."
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Posted: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 2:35 pm by Sylvhania
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