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62) The illusionist
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In late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost immediately recognize each other as Eduard Abramovich and Sophie von Teschen, they who had a doomed romance at that time due to their class differences....
64) Side effects
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Taking medication to cope with the death of her mother, Whitney Connolly discovers she is experiencing a strange side effect of the medication--musical hallucinations--that help her escape her family problems.
70) Fury
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The disturbing visions that helped Daniel Byers solve a deadly mystery have finally quieted, and the sixteen-year-old basketball star is looking forward to things settling back to normal. But when his father mysteriously disappears, Daniel realizes that the key to finding his dad rests in deciphering this chilling hallucinations.
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"After Henry's girlfriend Val leaves him and transfers to another school, his grief begins to manifest itself in bizarre and horrifying ways. Cause and effect, once so reliable, no longer appear to be related in any recognizable manner. Either he's hallucinating, or the strength of his heartbreak over Val has unhinged reality itself. After weeks of sleepless nights and sick delusions, Henry decides to run away. If he can only find Val, he thinks,...
72) The illusionist
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English
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In late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost immediately recognize each other as Eduard Abramovich and Sophie von Teschen, they who had a doomed romance at that time due to their class differences....
75) Waxworks
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The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look at the owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself.
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Español
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"La tercera novela de Gonzalo Torné confirma lo que se apuntaba en Hilos de sangre: la construcción de un mundo que indaga en las profundidades de la condición humana a la vez que se exploran las posibilidades formales de la novela. Divorcio en el aire empieza cuando Joan-Marc y Helen se marchan a un balneario para tratar de salvar su matrimonio. Ese espacio se convierte en el eje de una historia que relata el origen de su relación con Helen,...
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"The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love--and the end of love--and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know--but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate romance....
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Italiano
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Between us: Yuri and Max have been friends for a lifetime, spending their evenings drinking and discussing their lives. But this particular evening will be their last. The following morning Yuri receives a call from the local hospital where he learns that last night, at the home of Max's home was burglarized and his mother was violently killed. Max, the only survivor of the invasion, finds himself in a state of shock, and without a family. Yuri decides...
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