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42) Antebellum
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Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
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Published in 1924 and widely acknowledged as a major work of twentieth-century Latin American literature, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the harrowing adventures of the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia as they flee Bogotá and head into the wild and woolly backcountry of Colombia. After being separated from Alicia, Arturo leaves the high plains for the jungle, where he witnesses firsthand the horrid conditions of those forced...
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"America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone ... When chaos swirls through America, can hope be renewed by dawn? Moses and Rose are pulled into drama erupting in South Carolina. When it spills over to the plantation, will their family grow? Racial tensions boil over into violence and murder during the Philadelphia elections. Carrie, Janie and Florence join hands with the clinic to work together once more. Peter's trip to a journalism...
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the fair: Ma and Pa try to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college.
Ma and Pa Kettle on vacation: on a trip to Paris, the Kettles get involved with international spies.
Ma and Pa Kettle at home: Pa tries to impress the judges of an essay contest in order to help Elwin win a college scholarship.
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki: Ma and Pa fly off to Hawaii to help cousin Rodney with his pineapple...
55) All things new
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly vows to rebuild her family's once-grand Virginia plantation, but her privileged life has now turned into a daily struggle for survival.
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This film is the followup of First contact. It traces the fortunes of Joe Leahy, the mixed-race son of Australian explorer Michael Leahy, in his uneasy relationship with his tribal neighbors. Joe built his coffee plantation on land bought from the Ganiga in the mid 1970s. European educated, raised in the highlands of Papua, freed by his mixed race from the entanglements of tribal obligation, Joe leads a Western lifestyle governed by individualism...
58) A hundred suns
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"On a humid afternoon in 1933, American Jessie Lesage steps off a boat from Paris and onto the shores of Vietnam. Accompanying her French husband Victor, an heir to the Michelin rubber fortune, she's certain that their new life is full of promise, for while the rest of the world is sinking into economic depression, Indochine is gold for the Michelins. Jessie knows that their vast plantations near Saigon are the key to the family's prosperity, and...
59) Moving midway
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The past is not dead. It's not even past - William Faulkner. Humorous, poignant, probing and suspenseful, Moving midway follows a real-life family commotion that swirls around one of America's most contested and controversial icons: the Southern plantation. New York film critic-turned-filmmaker Godfrey Cheshire returns home to North Carolina and finds that his cousin Charlie Silver proposes to uproot and relocate the family ancestral home, Midway...
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