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An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind.  Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.Animal Farm is Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of redemption. But this is no ordinary journey: it is one that spans ages and countries, and which brings him face-to-face with a host of unforgettable, eccentric characters and legendary creatures from the strangest medieval bestiaries. Laurus’s travels take him from the Middle Ages to the Plague of 1771, where as a holy fool he displays miraculous healing powers, to the political upheavals of the late-twentieth century. At each transformative stage of his journey he becomes more revered by the church and the people, until he decides, one day, to return to his home village to lead the life of a monastic hermit – not realizing that it is here that he will face his most difficult trial yet.Laurus is a remarkably rich novel about the eternal themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice and faith, from one of Russia’s most exciting and critically acclaimed novelists.

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.  When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

Vysoko v kopcích Bílých Karpat jsou řídce rozeseta přikrčená stavení. Všude je daleko. Říká se, že právě proto si tam některé ženy dokázaly uchovat vědomosti a intuici, kterou jsme ztratili. Předávaly si ji z generace na generaci řadu století. Říkali jim bohyně, protože dokázaly bohovat — prosit Boha o pomoc. A jeho zásahům i trošku dopomoci… Říkalo se o nich, že vidí do budoucnosti. Proč tedy nezachránily tu svou?Dora Idesová je poslední z bohyní. Brání se přijmout zastaralý způsob života a věštit příchozím z odlitého vosku jako její teta Surmena. Vše se ovšem mění, jakmile pochopí, že co se v jejím životě zdálo být nešťastnou shodou okolností, bylo pečlivě promyšleným plánem. Její umístění v internátě, Jakoubkova ústavní péče, hospitalizace v psychiatrické léčebně v Kroměříži… Na konci 90. let na ni v pardubickém archivu ministerstva vnitra čeká operativní svazek vedený StB na vnitřního nepřítele — její tetu Surmenu. Dora nevěřícně rozplétá neznámé osudy své rodiny i dalších bohyní…Byly bohyně nebezpečím pro důvěřivé pacienty? Nebo byly skutečně ideologickou hrozbou normalizované společnosti? Nebo se o vyhlazení posledního reliktu pohanství postarala obyčejná závist a lidská zášť? Nový román Kateřiny Tučkové, autorky bestselleru Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch, je fascinujícím příběhem o ženské duši, magii a zasuté části naší historie.

"The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century" (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw's Hitler is a new, distilled, one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler's origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siecle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kershaw's richly illustrated biography is a mesmerizing portrait of how Hitler attained, exercised, and retained power. Drawing on previously untapped sources, such as Goebbels's diaries, Kershaw addresses crucial questions about the unique nature of Nazi radicalism, about the Holocaust, and about the poisoned European world that allowed Hitler to operate so effectively.

When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.With The Testaments, the wait is over.Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades."Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now . . . Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.

This remarkable book details how Stalin ran the Soviet Union as his fiefdom using terror to gain and maintain power. He was a brutal man and mass murderer. He was also a talented man, well read with an intellectual side. While he could be seething and overbearing, he was also a charmer, a quality he used very effectively. He knew how to use fear. He was a cunning manipulator, a skill he employed to keep everyone in their place at both an individual and a national level. Without a second thought he could turn on a life-long close friend and have him or her tortured and shot, yet he was capable of kindness, particularly to children. He read people and situations well, but easily became overconfident which undermined his competence. He survived by iron will and force of personality. An ideologue, he and his comrades started out with a desire to create a new Russia for the common people. But his persistent paranoia dominated all his other traits. His creation became a twisted hell. Montefiore built his manuscript from interviews, memoirs, and archives. In the 1990s he toured the former Soviet Union interviewing people who had known Stalin or his associates including many children of key figures. His rich blending of sources gives you the feeling of being there as Stalin interacts with his “court” and family, whether at formal meetings or private gatherings. Many conversations are quoted. We see the give and take, the everyday, and we get a feel for Stalin and those around him. Montefiore gives us the material to form our own views. With any presentation as complex and nuanced as this one much is revealed, but we are still left with many questions. For those interested, my notes follow. They do not reflect the intimate tone or broad scope of the book, just things I felt important enough to jot down. Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, “Soso”, born in 1878 grew up an abused child, dirt poor, essentially a street urchin, in Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains. His quick mind earned him a place in the local church school and then the seminary. This upbringing, his confidence and taste for intrigue led him to join the Bolshevik underground in 1899. In 1906 Soso married Kato who he loved dearly and gave him a son before she died of TB in 1907. He said, “…with her died my last warm feelings for people.” Soso went on to fund the Party by robbing banks or as he called these crimes “expropriations.” He was arrested and escaped many times as he helped organize the Bolsheviks. He adopted a revolutionary name, Koba, from the hero of a novel. In 1912 he met Vladimir Lenin for whom he wrote Marxist articles. Koba became Koba Stalin adopting a gritty name that sounded similar to Lenin. In the wake of the 1917 revolution fighting the Whites, Lenin encouraged Stalin to be ever more brutal. Promoted to Commissar he summarily killed resistors and anyone he distrusted. One associate, Voroshilov, said Stalin conducted “a ruthless purge…administered by an iron hand.” Commissar Stalin met his second wife, Nadya his 17 year old typist, 22 years his junior, in 1917 marrying her in 1919. In 1922 Lenin made Stalin General Secretary of the Central Committee (CC), a job with wide-ranging power. Lenin would turn against the power grabbing Stalin, but too late, dying in 1924. With Lenin gone, other CC members were more afraid of Trotsky and backed Stalin to head the Party. Before long they realized their mistake. By 1926 Stalin was taking control backed by a coterie of radical cohorts. The 1928 grain crisis established Stalin’s brutal approach: blame the kulaks (mostly prosperous peasants with a couple of workers or cows, or just resisters), force them into collectives or kill or deport them and put on some show trials for intimidation. As the crisis worsened in the next couple of years the goal became to eliminate kulaks and resistors completely. To finance industrialization the government was taking any and all grain it could find.Stalin and other Party leaders lived together in the Kremlin with their wives and children, all in constant interaction with each other. They were zealots who had come up together. Molotov, Mikoyan and Kaganovich among others were often in the Stalin household. The men drank together. Wives were influential. Nadya didn’t hesitate to confront Stalin. Couples frequently dined together. Their children played together. Families holidayed together. While in the Kremlin they lived without luxury, Stalin and Nadya included. Maintaining the image of a dutiful Bolshevik was important. Still they had servants, plenty of food, dachas outside the city and holiday homes in the south. They referred to themselves as “responsible workers”. These tightly knit Party leaders were mostly in their thirties. They were idealistic, ruthless and hell bent to build an industrial socialist republic immediately. As much of a beast as Stalin was, he knew how to turn on the charm. He used that talent very successfully to get his way and he also used monetary rewards. While Stalin allowed old friends to criticize him, he was paranoid and he found ways to get rid of those perceived as a threat. He made extensive use of the secret police (OGPU) to ensure loyalty. Still in the 1920’s, Stalin did not have total power. Oligarchic rule still prevailed. In 1932 mass starvation engulfed Ukraine killing 5 to 10 million. Stalin doubled down on his cruel policies: Taking every morsel of grain his agents could find, killing or deporting resistors and any Party members with a hint of a conscience. Cracking down Stalin appointed the duplicitous, ruthless Beria to a position of power. In November Nadya, a manic depressive who was frequently jealous, committed suicide. Perhaps contributing were her dismay at Stalin’s policies and the Ukraine situation and deep disgust at the appointment of Beria who she considered vile. Stalin was deeply shaken by her death. He felt Nadya had abandoned and humiliated him. Kaganovich noted, “Stalin changed.” While Stalin was already vindictive and paranoid; some believe the impact of Nadya’s death on Stalin led to the Terror. 1933 saw a good harvest. Vanished people and villages were soon forgotten.1934 was a decisive year. Kirov, Stalin’s close longtime friend, the boss of Leningrad and intimate of all the leadership, was assassinated. It looked like an inside job. Stalin was quick, too quick, to assign responsibility listing Party members to be investigated. Mikoyan and Khrushchev later said they thought Stalin planned it, but it was inconceivable at the time. Regardless Stalin seized the opportunity to replace those he did not trust with those he did. He immediately issued the first December Law with which Stalin could exercise total power. In December, 6,501 were shot including the accused conspirators and their innocent families. In the next three years the Law would be used to execute or commit to labor camps over two million people. Bolsheviks, not just resisters, would now be readily arrested and executed. Stalin’s paranoia, perhaps exacerbated by his loneliness following Nadya’s death, was running wild. He had been enamored with Hitler’s Night of the Long Knives in which Hitler consolidated power executing fellow Nazi’s including longtime friend Ernst Rohm. The comfortable days of the Kremlin elite were over.In 1935 Stalin turned on another close longtime friend from his inner circle, Yenukidze, Nadya’s godfather. He had been the first official to see Nadya dead, while Stalin slept off a night drinking. In a pattern that would be repeated with many others, he was falsely accused of harboring terrorists and verbally attacked by Stalin surrogates then forced to write a “Correction of Errors”. Yenukidze was sent away to run a remote sanatorium. Stalin would have him executed two years later. 1936 saw the first of the great show trials. Stalin reopened the Kirov case framing two longtime Bolshevik leaders who had been close associates of Lenin. In return for confessions Stalin promised them they would not be executed. They dutifully played their parts at the trial. Everything was carefully orchestrated to garner public support. Then Stalin had them shot. Stalin relished the humiliation of his enemies. Stalin now viewed himself as a Tsar. Stalin had put Yezhov in charge of the Kirov investigation which had been used exactly as Stalin directed to eliminate enemies. Now Stalin put him in charge of the NKVD, the successor to the OGPU. On the side, Beria would secretly poison enemies for Stalin, including Lakoba, a longtime intimate member of Stalin’s circle. His death was, as usual in these cases, ascribed to natural causes.In 1937 Stalin cleaned house fully unleashing the Terror. Thousands of Party officials and their families were deemed enemies of the people and Trotskyites. They were executed or sent to slave labor. This included high ranking longtime close friends of Stalin such as Bukharin who was shot, his wife sent to slave labor. Sergo, another close Stalin friend, took the easy way out committing suicide. When Stalin took out his enemies so were all connected to them: friends, lovers, protégés as well as family. Torture was regularly used. Stalin had Yezhov clean out the NKVD arresting thousands. Next Stalin eliminated the Red Army generals and even the judges that convicted them. By November 1938 over 40,000 army officers had been arrested. Stalin was now an absolute dictator. In July, 1937 Stalin through Yezhov unleashed the Terror on the entire country. Districts were assigned quotas for executions and arrests and told to weed out “the most hostile anti-Soviet elements” “to finish off once and for all” enemies and of course their families and associates. As regions fulfilled their quotas they received, even asked for larger quotas. Poles and Germans were particularly targeted. Stalin also included “5 of the 15 Politburo members, 98 of the 139 Central Committee members and 1,108 of 1, 966 delegates from the Seventeenth Congress.” Anyone Stalin knew who he perceived could ever potentially turn against him was arrested or shot. In total 1.5 million were arrested and 700,000 thousand shot. Stalin believed it better to kill innocent people than miss an enemy. Yezhov spared no effort or potential enemies to fulfill Stalin’s wishes, personally working nights to torture prisoners himself. Stalin’s intimates Molotov and Kaganavich fully supported the Terror providing Yezhov their own lists of enemies, as did Yezhov’s own close friends Malenkov and Khrushchev. Yet all these men realized they could be arrested anytime. Only Stalin was truly safe. And in 1938 Stalin effectively replaced Yezhov with the sadistic Beria. Yezhov had become increasingly erratic drinking heavily. Stalin had him arrested in 1939 and shot in 1940. By 1939, Stalin realized the purge needed to be scaled back. Europe was on the verge of war. In August, Stalin made a deal with Hitler to buy time figuring mistakenly that France and Britain would keep Germany busy. As part of the bargain Stalin got the Baltic States and Eastern Poland. In Poland true to form Stalin deported priests, officials, professionals, intellectuals, anyone who might oppose him – a total of 1.17 million by 1940, 10 percent of the population. Thirty percent would die the following year. Included were 26,000 Polish officer prisoners Stalin executed. In the Baltics 170,000 were deported or killed. At home Stalin’s paranoia fell on his associates’ wives. He had many eliminated, even the wife of his loyal assistant Poskrebyshev. Poskrebyshev, who Stalin trusted and liked, was beside himself with grief but Stalin told him, “Don’t worry, we’ll find you another wife.” Beria was doing the dirty work in between his nights torturing inmates at Lubianka. After France fell so quickly Stalin feared Hitler would attack. His spies confirmed plans for Operation Barbarossa in December 1940. Despite excellent intelligence Stalin believed he could delay Hitler. As attack became more imminent Stalin became increasingly dysfunctional denying intelligence reports and threatening those that told him the truth and overruling his generals. Many of his best generals had already been killed in the purge. His judgement about those remaining was often poor. He had generals arguing over whether tanks or horse drawn cannon were superior. Russia was unprepared in every way. An NKVD engineered overthrow of a pro German Yugoslav government did delay Hitler a month which would prove to be important.When Russia was attacked in June 1941, Stalin became despondent. But Politburo members and associates realized without Stalin, people would lose faith. Only Stalin could rally the people. They snapped him out of it and got him back in charge. The Russian armies quickly folded losing most of their equipment and men. Soon the Germans were at the entrance to Leningrad. Then Stalin found the right general, Zhukov, who had been dismissed as Chief of Staff for giving Stalin advice he didn’t want to hear. In September, Stalin sent the professional and ruthless Zhukov to save Leningrad, which he miraculously did. Following Stalin’s orders, Zhukov burned down any populated area he could that the Nazi’s had captured. The Nazi’s lost too many men for Hitler, who decided to lay siege, starve the city and send the troops to take Moscow. In November Stalin recalled Zhukov to Moscow to lead the defense. Again miraculously with just 90,000 remaining troops Zhukov held off the Nazis. Soon Russian troops recalled from Asia began arriving to bolster Zhukov’s army. In 1942, the Soviet army again suffered from Stalin’s inept micromanagement as it was eviscerated by the Nazi’s in the south leading to the decisive battle of Stalingrad starting in August. That same month Churchill visited Stalin in Moscow. Stalin wanted a second front, Churchill simply a reliable ally. Stalin showed both sides of himself. After leading with a terse confrontational stance, Stalin turned on the charm reversing Churchill’s initial anger and leaving him with a good impression. But Stalin needed more than charm against the Nazis in Stalingrad. The fear of losing this city and the war caused Stalin, the Supreme Commander, to stop being an amateur general. He made Zhukov Deputy Supreme Commander and sent him to Stalingrad. Zhukov returned as the Russians barely held on. He and Vasilevsky, Chief of Staff, presented to Stalin Operation Uranus, the plan that would win the battle. In November both Stalin and Hitler were confident of victory in Stalingrad and both publicly predicted it to their people. For once Stalin was right. In October Stalin had returned command to his generals. But Beria and the NKVD enforced Party discipline ensuring no one in the military stepped out of line. Beria used the Gulag’s 1.7 million slave laborers to make Stalin’s weapons. Almost a million of these died during the war. In preparation for the battle of Kursk, the world’s greatest tank battle, Beria’s 300,000 slave laborers dug an impenetrable 3,000 miles of trenches. As Zhukov’s plan unfolded one million Russians and 3,000 tanks met 900,000 Germans and 2,700 tanks head on. The Russian victory at Kursk sealed the German’s fate at Stalingrad and Hitler’s in the war.As 1942 ended fresh with victories and a commitment to open a second front after meeting FDR and Churchill in Tehran, Stalin returned to his old heavy drinking overconfident self. Already the war had cost Russia 26 million dead and an equal number homeless. Many were starving and nationalist movements began uprisings. Stalin returned to form answering with mass deportations of suspect ethnic groups. Beria arrested almost a million in 1943 and many more in 1944. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, many starving, deported to the Eastern provinces. Corruption was rampant in Soviet leadership including the military and secret police. Germany and conquered territories were extensively looted. The elite piled up treasures while Soviet citizens and soldiers starved, over 800,000 in 1946 and 1947. Stalin made Khrushchev the fall guy for the famine, demoting himAfter the war Stalin added a big belly to his big head putting on much weight with constant gluttonous dinners at which he and his fellow Politburo members and other intimates were always totally drunk. In 1945 he had a heart attack. He lost some of his sharpness but none of his paranoia. Soon he turned sour on the Four, the other primary Politburo members: Mikoyan, Molotov, Malenkov, and Beria. He replaced Beria as head of the secret police and sent Malenkov packing to central Asia. He also thought the generals too big for their britches, demoting many including the war hero Zhukov. In 1949 he turned on the “Leningraders”, eliminating party members he feared were trying to build a Russian party at the expense of the Soviet one. Keep in mind Stalin was Georgian, not Russian. Yeltsin would years later use a “Leningrader” strategy to undermine Gorbachev. In late 1947 Stalin began targeting Jews. This became an extensive anti-Semitic campaign removing prominent Jews from positions of power. To Molotov’s dismay even his beloved Jewish wife Polina was arrested. She had been friends with Stalin and Nadya since her 1921 marriage to Molotov, for years Stalin’s closest ally. Stalin now considered her snobbish and she had a businessman brother in America. She was sacked from her government position, forced to divorce Molotov and exiled to the East. Many others were arrested or killed. Stalin did not trust anyone he thought elitist and that included many Jews who were called “cosmopolitans.” He was angry that Israel, which he had hoped would be a Russian client, turned towards America, seeing that as a sign of divided loyalty of Soviet Jews. In 1950 the campaign was still in full swing as even lower management level Jews were sacked. The Gulags were busting full at 2.6 million. Stalin also arrested many thousands of Mingrelians, an ethnic group in Georgia. This was also a threat against Beria, who was Mingrelian.Abakumov had replaced Beria as head of the MGB (new name for NKGB which had been split from the NKVD). He was now betrayed by one of his assistants just as had the secret police chiefs before him (Yezhov and Beria). Stalin had decided Abakumov was going soft on Stalin’s latest targets, doctors (many were Jewish). Abakumov was arrested, tortured and eventually shot. He was replaced by Ignatiev, who at Stalin’s direction mercilessly tortured his victims using medical instruments on the doctors. When progress was slow Stalin excoriated Ignatiev, “Beat them until they confess! Beat, beat, and beat again. Put them in chains, grind them into powder.” Stalin had his own longtime family doctor arrested and tortured. By 1950 Stalin suffered terribly from arthritis, cardiovascular disease and the beginning of dementia, but his instincts and modus operandi had not changed.In December 1952 Stalin denounced Molotov and Mikoyan at a Party Congress excluding them from the Politburo. He did not want any of his old cronies to be his successor. The new Four (key Politburo members Malenkov, Beria, Khrushchev and Bulganin) all felt threatened as Stalin turned on his old associates. In March 1953 Stalin had a cerebral hemorrhage. He died days later. The best doctors including his own were unavailable as they were being interrogated in Lubianka. Amazingly, many of his associates who had been terrified of him shed tears at his death. All in all Stalin was responsible for killing 20 million and deporting 28 million with 18 million of those sent to the Gulags.

In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the company of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US.

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

Their acquaintance began on the warm summer of 1963, when cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, ended up on the sheep farm of Joe Aguirre in Brokeback Mountain, Wyoming while looking for work. Under unexpected circumstances, little by little, the two men developed an intimate relationship that turned into a profound but secret bond, right under the nose of their families. However, love, and its many faces, is eternal. Who can stop love, life's ultimate truth?

Bruno an eight-year-old boy from Berlin, Germany is moved with his mother, Elder sister, SS Commander father to a countryside in Europe where his father powers over a concentration camp for Jews. Bruno went "exploring" one day and befriended a child his age named Shmuel. Shmuel was a Jew. The boy became good friends until Bruno was scheduled to move to a new location.

During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.

1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life,

Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red.

1994 American drama film directed by Frank Darabont

Having graduated recently from the University of Edinburgh, the Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan, flies to Uganda to work at a missionary clinic run by Dr David Merrit and his wife, Sarah. Before long, Garrigan has a chance encounter with the new President, General

Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello", "Four minutes till Wapner" and refusal to fly on an airline except Qantas drives Charlie insane... and out of his selfish world into a cross-country trek of pure love and understanding that these two both have.

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's

Elderly and a virtual prisoner in her own home due to her concerned staff and daughter Carol,

In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.

This sweeping account of the life of Pu-Yi, the last emperor of China, follows the leader's tumultuous reign. After being captured by the Red Army as a war criminal in 1950, Pu-Yi recalls his childhood from prison. He remembers his lavish youth in the Forbidden City, where he was afforded every luxury but unfortunately sheltered from the outside world and complex political situation surrounding him. As revolution sweeps through China, the world Pu-Yi knew is dramatically upended.

1987 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

1994 American film directed by Robert Zemeckis

Diana, the "People's Princess" has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen (Dame Helen Mirren) and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected

"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

In 1962, Tony "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, a tough bouncer, is looking for work when his nightclub is closed for renovations. The most promising offer turns out to be the driver for the African-American classical pianist Don Shirley for a concert tour into the Deep South states. Although hardly enthused at working for a black man, Tony accepts the job and they begin their trek armed with The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for safe travel through America's racial segregation. Together, the snobbishly erudite pianist and the crudely practical bouncer can barely get along with their clashing attitudes to life and ideals. However, as the disparate pair witness and endure America's appalling injustices on the road, they find a newfound respect for each other's talents and start to face them together. In doing so, they would nurture a friendship and understanding that would change both their lives.

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

A highly articulate, erudite and intelligent businessman and mastermind, "Red" Reddington, has allegedly been on the "10 Most Wanted List" of various U.S. law enforcement agencies for over 20 years. The legend is that Red is as elusive as he is clever, controlling a labyrinth of creative enterprises, coupled with uncanny ability to gather and finesse information at the drop of a hat. On the first day at FBI for a new female profiler fresh out of Quantico, Red offers to bandy wits with the FBI. Red promises to deliver various criminals and plots previously unknown to any branch of law enforcement... and all Red requests in return is to choose his muse.

A young woman is murdered in a small Pennsylvania town. On the case is Detective Sergeant Mare Sheehan, a highly skilled crime investigator. She has spent all of her life in Easttown and knows everybody in it. However, her life is dark and troubled, due largely to the recent death of her son.

Patrick Jane is a crime consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation. He has a particular gift for astute observation and reading people, honed through years of being a faux psychic. His gift makes him brilliant at solving murders, which is why the CBI have him around. However, his motive for taking on the role is purely one of revenge: find and kill the man who killed his wife and daughter - Red John.

American crime television series (2008-2015)

Everything about the town of Beacon Heights seems perfect, but in the aftermath of the town's first murder, behind every Perfectionist hides secrets, lies and much needed alibies.

American teen drama mystery-thriller television series

A medical based drama centered around Meredith Grey, an aspiring surgeon and daughter of one of the best surgeons, Dr. Ellis Grey. Throughout the series, Meredith goes through professional and personal challenges along with fellow surgeons at Seattle Grace Hospital.

In April 1986, a huge explosion erupted at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in northern Ukraine. This series follows the stories of the men and women, who tried to contain the disaster, as well as those who gave their lives preventing a subsequent and worse one.

2019 miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster

It centers on an idealistic young doctor who begins his first day under the supervision of a tough, brilliant senior resident who pulls the curtain back on all of the good and evil in modern day medicine. Lives may be saved or lost, but expectations will always be shattered.

Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends, and roommates, although in all capacities their relationship is always tested primarily by Sheldon's regimented, deeply eccentric, and non-conventional ways. They are also friends with their Cal Tech colleagues mechanical engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Rajesh Koothrappali. The foursome spend their time working on their individual work projects, playing video games, watching science-fiction movies, or reading comic books. As they are self-professed nerds, all have little or no luck with women. When Penny, a pretty woman and an aspiring actress from Omaha, moves into the apartment across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon's, Leonard has another aspiration in life, namely to get Penny to be his girlfriend.

In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge's own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s.

On Nadia's 36th birthday she is struck by a car and killed while leaving her party. In an instant she is alive again and transported back to her birthday party earlier that night. Moments later she dies again and finds herself, once again, back at her party, Nadia begins to question her sanity as she strives to unravel the mystery of her situation.

A religion-based autocracy has taken over most of the United States, renaming the country Gilead. In this country women are second-class citizens. Anyone trying to escape is punished. One such person is June, who is captured while trying to escape with her husband and child and is sentenced to be a handmaid, bearing children for childless government officials. As a handmaid, June is renamed Offred. This is her story.

After the unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, Adrian Monk develops obsessive-compulsive disorder, which includes his terror of germs and contamination. His condition costs him his job as a prominent homicide detective in the San Francisco Police Department, but he continues to solve crimes with the help of his assistant and his former boss.

Nine year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.

Set in the fictional town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, the series follows the lives of four girls, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, Emily Fields, and Spencer Hastings, whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison DiLaurentis. One year later, the estranged friends are reunited as they begin receiving messages from a mysterious figure named "A", who threatens to expose their deepest secrets, including ones they thought only Alison knew. At first, they think it's Alison herself, but after her body is found, the girls realize that someone else is planning on ruining their not so perfect lives.

American teen drama mystery-thriller television series.

The series follows the life of anti-social, pain killer addict, witty and arrogant medical doctor Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) with only half a muscle in his right leg. He and his team of medical doctors try to cure complex and rare diseases from very ill ordinary people in the United States of America.

When chemistry teacher Walter White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given only two years to live, he decides he has nothing to lose. He lives with his teenage son, who has cerebral palsy, and his wife, in New Mexico. Determined to ensure that his family will have a secure future, Walt embarks on a career of drugs and crime. He proves to be remarkably proficient in this new world as he begins manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with one of his former students. The series tracks the impacts of a fatal diagnosis on a regular, hard working man, and explores how a fatal diagnosis affects his morality and transforms him into a major player of the drug trade.

He's smart, he's good looking, and he's got a great sense of humor. He's Dexter Morgan, everyone's favorite serial killer. As a Miami forensics expert, he spends his days solving crimes, and nights committing them. But Dexter lives by a strict code of honor that is both his saving grace and lifelong burden. Torn between his deadly compulsion and his desire for true happiness, Dexter is a man in profound conflict with the world and himself. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Hall stars in the hit SHOWTIME Original Series.

Majority House Whip Francis Underwood takes you on a long journey as he exacts his vengeance on those he feels wronged him - that is, his own cabinet members including the President of the United States himself. Dashing, cunning, methodical and vicious, Frank Underwood along with his equally manipulative yet ambiguous wife, Claire, take Washington by storm through climbing the hierarchical ladder to power in this Americanized recreation of the BBC series of the same name.

American political drama television series (2013-2018)

Told from the perspective of an unseen documentary filmmaker, the series offers an honest, often-hilarious perspective of family life. Parents Phil and Claire yearn for an honest, open relationship with their three kids, but a daughter who is trying to grow up too fast, another who is too smart for her own good, and a rambunctious young son make it challenging. Claire's dad Jay and his Latina wife Gloria are raising two sons together, but people sometimes believe Jay to be Gloria's father. Jay's gay son Mitchell and his partner Cameron have adopted a little Asian girl, completing one big -- straight, gay, multicultural, traditional -- happy family.

Louise is a divorced mother who works as a secretary and one night meets and falls in love with a man who happens to be her new boss in the office named David. Fate brings Louise to meet his wife and learn things she must research to find what is hidden behind their relationship.

Erik Logar

A family tree with Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) and Camille Braverman (Bonnie Bedelia) serving as the patriarch and matriarch. After forty-six years of marriage, they've managed to keep their foundation intact by burying their problems underneath the surface for the sake of their now-adult children. Adam (Peter Krause) is the first-born and the ripest apple the tree has to offer. He runs a shoe company, has a supportive wife, two children (boy and girl) and a beautiful home to share with them. He's a dog short of "The American Dream". Sarah (Lauren Graham), is the unstable daughter returning home at thirty-eight years of age with her rebellious daughter and sensitive son to live with Zeek and Camille. Crosby (Dax Shepard), is a happy-go-lucky bachelor living in the now, on a docked boat. He has no idea that his frivolous life is about to change tremendously. Then there is Julia (Erika Christensen). She is the bread-winning shot-calling lawyer, whose husband mans the stay-at-home-dad duties. Each family will face their own challenges, but how they propose to deal with them is what will keep them together or tear them apart.

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