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1) The dry
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For Aaron Falk, going back home is not going to be easy. After all, with the area facing an extreme drought, everyone is in a constant state of alert. It is against this strange backdrop that Falk stumbles into a mystery that is four decades old. Many years ago, a teenage girl died under mysterious circumstances. And the more that Falk investigates this cold case, the more he realizes that it may have something to do with the town's more recent tragedies....
2) Young adult
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Mavis Gary is a writer of teen literature who returns to her small hometown to relive her glory days and attempt to reclaim her happily married high school sweetheart. When returning home proves more difficult than she thought, Mavis forms an unusual bond with a former classmate who hasn't quite gotten over high school, either.
3) The Hollars
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John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
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Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie, and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house and begs her son to take her on a visit to her hometown of Bountiful. When he refuses, Mrs. Watts is undeterred and makes an escape to the local bus station, where she befriends Thelma, a young woman traveling home.
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Chesapeake Shores volume 1
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"Abby O'Brien Winters returns to Chesapeake Shores when she receives a panicked phone call from her younger sister Jess, who has renovated the charming Inn at Eagle Point. The Maryland town her father built has many sad memories and Abby, thanks to her demanding career, divorce and young twin daughters, has not had time to spare. Saving the inn from foreclosure means dealing not only with her fractured family but also with Trace Riley, the man she...
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Award-winning director Daniel Burman returns with this well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father-son relationship. After years away, Ariel returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth. In the process of trying to meet his father and getting entangled in his charitable...
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Ten years ago, Harry Warden murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe. Tom returns to his hometown on the anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre. Instead of a homecoming, however, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders instead of Harry. The only person who seems to believe he is innocent is his old girlfriend. Now, something has returned to the town of Harmony. Wearing a miner's mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer...
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Jennifer, a hardworking and ambitious woman, returns to her hometown for the holidays and begins exchanging letters with a secret admirer. Soon, she realizes that her admirer is actually someone from her past and decides to find out just who it is. Now that she has a second chance at love, will she be able to take it?
10) Don McKay
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In this edgy thriller, Don McKay flees his hometown after a horrendous tragedy and vows never to return. But 25 years later he comes back to find a dark menace looming over the town. As he attempts to rekindle his romance with an old high school girlfriend, Don is pulled into a malevolent world from which he may never escape.
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Dr. Syd has a good practice in the big city but a bad day when her terminal patient finally passes away. Syd's best friend Nurse Brenda tells her to get away for a few days and suggests she go back to her small hometown for her school reunion. Since Syd hasn't talked to anyone in that village, not even her mother, in years, she is unprepared for the collision between her memories of the past and the truth she finds in the village of today.
12) Not cool
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A feature-length coming-of-age comedy that chronicles the first homecoming on Thanksgiving weekend by a handful of college freshmen who are fumbling toward adulthood, written by Dan Schoffer and with the hilarious twist only Shane Dawson could create.
13) The Turkey Bowl
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"Patrick Hodges, a former small-town high school quarterback, now a high-powered Chicago businessman engaged to a politician's daughter, hasn't returned to his tiny Midwestern town in years. But his old friends have lured him back for Thanksgiving to force him to finish the legendary Turkey Bowl, a football game that was snowed out fifteen years ago. Patrick must risk his future to lead his ragtag team against their bitter crosstown rivals, ultimately...
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SnowComing: Samantha returns home for her town's winter festival and her father's retirement from coaching. She is surprised to see that Jake, the NFL quarterback, and her high school sweetheart, is home as well.
Baby, it's cold inside: When a travel agent up for a promotion is directed to forgo her tropical vacation to instead visit the world-famous Ice Hotel, she discovers her sacrifices are more than compensated.
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Campfire Christmas: "Romance rekindles for Peyton and her closest friends during a holiday themed reunion which Peyton's parents decide to host in their family-owned summer camp before selling it"--IMDb.
Christmas in Toyland: "A toy company data analyst tries to save hundreds of jobs right before Christmas to help keep the in-person experience alive"--IMDb.
My grown-up Christmas list: "Taylor and Luke have a special bond that grows between them...
16) Esteros
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Matias and Jeronimo, childhood friends, before starting high school they both experience their sexual awakening and their friendship takes a new turn. Matias's father breaks their relationship up by accepting a job far away. Ten years later, Matias returns to his old town for carnival with his girlfriend and unexpectedly runs in Jeronimo. Feelings slowly start to reappear and reach a climax, but at what price?
17) Death knot
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A brother and sister return home for the funeral of their estranged mother, who mysteriously hanged herself. Soon after, the inexplicable suicides of several other villagers follow, and the superstitious locals begin to threaten and confront the two. Can they uncover the mystery of these dark and haunting events before it's too late?
18) Dear younger me
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After losing his wife and father on the same day, Brandon Moore felt there was nothing left to live for. His dream of finding a cure for cancer to save his wife and win approval for his father was gone. When he decides to take his brother's suggestion and spend the night at the family old ranch, the twelve-year-old version of him walks out of the bathroom and spends three days trying to convince him to live again regardless of his losses.
19) Once again
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April left Daniel behind 5 years ago, when she decided to try her luck in London. She is back home now, to bury her grandmother. Walking the streets of what was her home with the man who was her love, she realizes she had missed it all.
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