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1) A tale of two cities

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It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...

2) The infinite sea

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Yancey, Richard

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5th Wave volume 2

Pub. Date

[2014]

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Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds people together is gone. Cassie and her friends haven't seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate.

3) The Tristan betrayal

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Ludlum, Robert

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"In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power - France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under constant threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany." "In this dark time, Stephen Metcalfe is living the high life in occupied Paris. The younger son of a prominent American family, Metcalfe is a handsome young man who is a notable guest at all the best parties, has been romantically...

4) MAS*H: Season 2

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2002, 1972

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Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 in Korea in 1950.

5) MASH : Season 1

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2001, 1972

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Series portrays both the horror and hilarity of the daily lives of MASH unit 4077 in Korea in 1950.

6) Ambrose Bierce: Civil War Stories

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c2006

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A collection of three of Ambrose Bierce's most popular and profound tales: Story of a Conscience; One Kind of Officer; and a new adaptation of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

7) MAS*H: Season three

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Explores the day-to-day lives of the people who live and work at the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) stationed three miles from the front during the Korean War.

8) Uncommon valor

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[2017]

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A man tries to find his son, who is listed as "missing in action" in Laos, with the help of five of his son's Marine buddies.

9) Slaughterhouse-Five

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c2004

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A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the firebombing of Dresden in 1944, which he witnessed as an Allied P.O.W.

10) Tribulation

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Top policeman Tom Canboro (Gary Busey) is on a seemingly normal night drive, when his car suddenly and mysteriously malfunctions sending him careening into oncoming traffic, plowing right into a big rig, sending poor Tom into temporary oblivian. After waking up 1 1/2 years later to find himself a different looking man, he realizes he's not the only one to undergo a strange change.

11) Judgment

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It is the imminent future. The world follows one government and one man. It is a world of peace, yet some still fight the authorities. To crush the dissent, the ruler arranges a trial of unprecedented proportion. A trial in the world court to be televised to a global audience. A trial that would see Helen Hannah, a Christian and a champion of the resistance, convicted and executed for hatred of the human race. ... There is only one way to truly uncover...