Zoë Perry
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"A woman around her thirties begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: a solid and stable marriage, a loving husband, sweet and well-behaved children and a job as a journalist she can't complain about. However, she can no longer bear the necessary effort to fake happiness when all she feels in life is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters an ex-boyfriend from her...
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When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city. As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era�s richest and most powerful men. But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari�s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs-Élysées, and accused of espionage. Told in Mata Hari�s voice...
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"In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo's slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. It's important to calm the cows, especially now that they seem so unsettled: they have begun...
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A reluctant faith healer tries to escape his darkened past working as a ranch hand for a plain-spoken widower and his young daughter. Over time, he becomes a part of their family and even falls in love with the local girl who helps out at the ranch, giving him hope that he may have finally found a place to call home. But, his fragile dreams are shattered when his predatory evangelist mother tracks him down, stopping at nothing to get her son and his...
5) Turkey Bowl
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Tensions run high between a group of old college friends when an annual game of touch football gets personal.
6) Sevastopol
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"Sevastopol contains three distinct narratives, each burrowing inside a crucial turning-point in a person's life: a young woman gives a melancholy account of her obsession with climbing Mount Everest; a Peruvian-Brazilian vanishes into the forest after staying in a semi-abandoned inn in the middle of the Brazilian countryside; a young playwright embarks on the production of a play about the city of Sebastopol and a Russian painter portraying Crimean...
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For nine-year-old Sheldon Cooper, it isn't easy growing up in East Texas. Being a once-in-a-generation mind capable of advanced mathematics and science is not always helpful in a land where church and football are king. And while the vulnerable, gifted, and somewhat naive Sheldon deals with the world, his very normal family must find a way to deal with him.
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"It's a new semester for child prodigy Sheldon Cooper, and a year of upheaval for the entire Cooper family. Sheldon attends his first comic convention, gets his first set of nerdy friends and fails to impress his new engineering professor. George, Sr. and Mary face conflicts at work and struggles in their marriage. Missy questions her religious beliefs and asks some uncomfortable questions about sex. Meemaw buys a laundromat with a secret gambling...
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"Being a once-in-a-generation mind isn't always easy for young Sheldon Cooper, and the gifted preteen now faces a major milestone: college. But what happens when his new philosophy teacher sends him into an existential crisis? Sheldon isn't the only Cooper facing big changes. Twin sister Missy enters middle school and a new stage of womanhood, older brother Georgie embarks on a surprising business venture, feisty Meemaw juggles multiple beaus, and...
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"Is it normal to be smarter than your parents? Or to have a brother who's more interested in his hair than his studies and a twin sister whose personality is the opposite of yours? It is if you're Sheldon Cooper, the phenomenally gifted eleven-year-old living in East Texas as he tests the patience of his family, the proofs of his analytical theories and the limits of his knowledge of the real world"--Container.
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"For ten-year-old Sheldon Cooper, being vulnerable, naïve and stratospherically smart isn't always helpful in a place like East Texas, where church and sports rule. His football- coach father, George, Sr.; his fiercely protective mother, Mary; older brother, Georgie; and twin sister, Missy, do their best to support the high-maintenance, high-IQ child while coping with their own ups and downs. But it's tough love from his no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is...
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"Being a child prodigy in East Texas can be challenging, but it can also make you the most popular student on your college campus. When thirteen-year-old undergrad Sheldon Cooper creates a database, his professors clamor for a partnership, but this puts him at odds with the university. Meanwhile, the relationship between his parents, George Sr. and Mary, hits a rough patch, causing his twin sister, Missy, to take off in their dad's truck. Big brother...