John Lyons
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Detective Jack Frost returns to seek out the unpleasant truth, often at great personal cost. This season Frost raids an illegal dogfighting ring, hoping to nab a local gangster, but the thug eludes him, and a brutal killing follows. Meanwhile, he is disturbed to find that someone is copying a series of unsolved crimes from years earlier, and Frost himself may be the killer's next victim. Most unexpected of all, love finally finds the aging detective,...
2) Ithaca
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Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
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Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...