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The Swedish novelist's profound concern about social problems is demonstrated in the actions of a dwarf whose devotion to the Prince brings inevitable disaster
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Grant Smith and Lydia Reynolds fell in love at a young age and their tender flame continues to burn. With wedding preparations underway, President Polk announces that war with Mexico is inevitable. Lydia is grief-stricken when she is told that Grant was wounded in battle and believed dead. Many years pass until they meet again, both widowed, and realize that the tender flame has never gone out.
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This contemporary classic spy thriller was the basis of both a 2002 theatrical film starring Matt Damon as well as a 1988 TV movie with Robert Chamberlain. A man is pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea by a fishing boat. He has been shot several times, bears the telltale scars of the plastic surgery that has altered his features, has a piece of microfilm displaying a Swiss bank account number implanted in his hip...and he has no memory. Aided by the money in the account, a few scraps of information (including his name: Jason Bourne), a ferocious will to survive, and the woman he kidnapped, he must figure out who he is, while eluding his deadly pursuers--chief of which is the world's most notorious assassin.
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Lucy's mother is dying, her alcoholic sister Anna is strangely detached from events, and Lucy (a museum curator) returns home to care for her mother. There in Florida, she finds herself reliving certain events in the life of her family--in particular, a freak accident that changed the family forever, and a midnight swim from long ago that seemed to promise that there was still hope. And then she discovers that someone she loved, who disappeared years ago, is still around.
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