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1) Secrets
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Having harbored an unrequited love for a man she met in childhood, Cassandra impulsively breaks an engagement to become the now-widowed man's nanny, but realizes that her chance for winning his heart is threatened by dark secrets.
2) Six years
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Harboring an enduring love for Natalie six years after her marriage to another man, Jake Sanders learns of his rival's death and attends the funeral only to discover that Natalie is not the woman she seemed to be, a situation that compels a determined search for answers.
3) Cosmos
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages)
Description
Witold has just failed the bar exam, his partner Fuchs has just recently quit his job and now they are staying at a so-called family guesthouse. It's when they discover a bird hung in the woods near the house that they become concerned with their safety. After, they find a piece of wood just as they had found the bird. They receive another omen in the form of forewarning signs on their ceiling and in the garden. What will happen next as Witold falls...
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
5) La strada
Series
Criterion collection volume 219
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A poor woman is sold to a traveling performer, becoming a victim of unrequited love.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A chance encounter with struggling B-movie star Ronnie Bostock opens up a whole new world to buttoned-up British author Giles De'Ath. Focuses on the genteel obsession of an older man for a younger man.
Author
Series
How to build a girl volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Johanna Morrigan hatches a plan to win the man of her dreams, a BritPop sensation, but soon finds out that being in the public eye is not all it's cracked up to be when a one-night stand comes back with a vengeance.
10) Swann in love
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When Charles Swann first lays eyes on Odette de Crécy, he is indifferent to her beauty. Their paths continue to cross in the drawing rooms and theatres of Parisian high society, and the seeds of desire in Swann begin to flourish. What follows is a journey through self-delusion, jealousy and delirious fantasy, which will take Swann far from the sedate comfort of his society life.
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Description
"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In...
Author
Series
Chicas volume 17
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Luke knows that Eve already has a boyfriend, but that doesn't stop him from trying to win her when his friend tells him about the "six steps method" that guarantees success with any girl.
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We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1194
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023].
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Description
Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
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"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010, c2008
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"An exhilarating and laugh-out-loud debut novel from a prize-winning new talent which chronicles the misadventures of a lovelorn Victorian lexicographer and the young woman put on his trail a century later to root out his misdeeds while confronting questions of her own sexuality and place in the world"--
18) Strobe edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
v. ; chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
What is love, anyway? Ninako Kinoshita's friends tell her it's one thing, but Ninako wonders what this mysterious feeling really is. When she meets Ren Ichinose, the handsome, enigmatic guy that all the girls worship, her life takes and unexpected turn. With just a few words and a smile, he changes her world... Ninako's friend Daiki throws her for a loop when he expresses romantic interest in her. She cares for him, but can she return his feelings?...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 312
Publisher
Everyman
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xlvii, 366 p. ; 21 cm.
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