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101) Sliders
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Brilliant grad student Quinn Mallory has created a device that opens a wormhole to an infinite number of parallel universes where history has taken different paths, some subtly changed and other radically different. Quinn's test trip goes awry, stranding his physics professor, Arturo, his friend, Wade, and bystander Rembrandt in parallel San Francisco's, "sliding" from one alternate reality to another, unable to return home.
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"The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman. Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can't stop reading people's minds. This is how she protects herself, by using her abilities to know exactly how her colleagues view her. This is how she escapes the torturous experience...
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Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his writing to the world, the reclusive writer is forced to confront...
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What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds, where it's the same year, and you're the same person, but everything else is different? And what if you can't find your way home? They've seen double versions of their hometown, their families, and themselves. But nothing will prepare the Sliders for what lies ahead in all 18 episodes from the fifth and final season of this phenomenally popular...
113) Pastor Brown
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Pastor Brown: Jessica Brown returns home to honor her dying father's final command to take over as pastor of the family church. She is forced to face critics who know of her sordid past, and mend fences with the son and sister she abandoned years ago. Sins Of The Mother: Grad student Shay Dixon finds herself broke and unable to cope with school, so she embarks on a journey home to face her abusive, alcoholic mother.
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Box of bones volume 1
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"When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide...
116) Listening
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David, Ryan, and Jordan hope the telepathy machine they invented will solve all their problems, but the bleeding-edge technology opens a Pandora's Box of new dangers as the team discovers that when they open their minds, there is nowhere to hide their thoughts.
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"Ella is an astrophysicist struggling with her doctoral thesis in the country of the present but she is from the country of the past, a place burdened in her memory by both personal and political tragedies. Her partner, El, is a forensic scientist who analyzes the bones of victims of state violence and is recovering from an explosion at a work site that almost killed him. Consumed by writer's block, Ella finds herself wishing that she would become...
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Mickey Brandeis, a brilliant doctoral candidate in medieval literature, lives in her parents' garage and swears too often, but she hasn't killed a man since she was ten. Mickey's carefully created adult existence is upended when she is led to a condemned house where she discovers a mutilated corpse. When she is later asked by a timid student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier, Mickey begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection...
120) The way I hate him
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Why am I holding a box of stolen memorabilia in my arms? It's called... revenge. After failing my last semester of grad school, I decided to come back to my hometown and wallow in my boyfriend's sympathetic arms. Instead, he proceeded to dump me... for being boring! Now, I'm not typically a spiteful person, but there's only so much I can take. Hence why I'm holding the box of his most cherished possessions... stolen possessions no less! The plan?...
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