Aneurin Barnard
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The fathers of the fitness industry Joe and Ben Weider battle anti-Semitism, conventional wisdom and extreme poverty to launch the fitness industry as it is known today. Along the way they champion women's rights, sexual freedom, fight discrimination in all forms, and discover a guy named Arnold Schwarzenegger. Against all odds they launched the gym movement and created an empire that changed the world.
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Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.