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1) The Outsider
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After spending more time than he can remember on his own inside a castle, an enigmatic man resolves to finally escape and seek human contact and daylight, both of which he has never experienced before. However, dissatisfied with what he finds on the outside, he hastens back to his old world inside his castle-to which he is now barred entry. First published in 1926, "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft that explores...
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"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
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The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
"A heroic story of friendship and belonging. No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends-- true friends who would do anything for...
4) The outsider
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[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.
5) The Outsider
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Giant Pictures
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2021.
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The creative director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Michael Shulan, thinks America is ready to ask hard questions. An iconoclast and idealist taking on the orthodoxies and vested interests, Shulan had a 500 million dollar budget, and the powerful tycoon Mayor Bloomberg as the museum’s major patron, but could an outsider like Shulan ever prevail?
6) The Outsider
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Distrib Films
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2016.
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Before the subprime mortgage crisis began unfolding in 2008, causing chaos in world markets and misery among millions of homeowners, another financial apocalypse was already underway at one of France’s most prestigious banks.. Based on the life of Jérôme Kerviel, a young trader who was convicted in the Société Générale trading loss for breach of trust and forgery, this thrilling French drama tells the true story of France's greatest financial...
7) The outsider
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The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mind-set. First published more than thirty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual. The Outsider is an individual engaged in an intense self-exploration-a person who lives at the edge, challenges cultural values, and "stands for Truth." Born into a world without perspective, where others simply drift through life, the Outsider creates...
8) The outsider
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Random House Worlds
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2023.
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In the world of video game Minecraft, Jeremy lives in the biggest city in the Overworld, surrounded by tall buildings, redstone wonders, and many people, but still he feels lonely and wants a friend.
9) The Outsider
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Cedric is working class man. His early years were spent living in an austere Catholic orphanage. He was later adopted and never knew his biological parents. After leaving home, he roamed aimlessly around the country, usually unemployed and homeless. Later he finds a job as a live-in in porter in an expensive block of apartments on the outskirts of London.
One of the wealthy residents offers him a week's holiday, along with two of the resident's friends,...
10) The Outsider
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Fast's New York Times bestseller traces the lives of Rabbi David Hartman and his family through the postwar turmoil of mid-century America David Hartman returned from the Second World War to the small New England town of Leighton Ridge. Rabbi to the fourteen Jewish families in his small community, Hartman, along with his town, spends the years after the war facing the major political and social upheaval of the time. From McCarthyism and nuclear spies,...
11) The Outsider
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The Men of Pride County
They left as boys, fired by visions of honor and glory. They returned as men, was-weary and with heavy hearts, yet determined to find love and rebuild their lives in the crumbled ruins of the South. these are their stories:
From the moment Hamilton Dodge set eyes on Southern beauty Starla Fairfax, the sparks flew. She was flirtatious, frivolous. . .everything that he was not. And yet he couldn't get her out of his mind. So...
13) The Outsider
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When Lex Walker's daughter goes missing, he must fight his way through an army of thugs and hired killers to find her and take down the man responsible for her disappearance.
14) The Outsider
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Are Americans ready to ask hard questions about 9/11? One stubborn iconoclast thinks they are. A battle to shape of history. In the end, will it be a Musuem of questions or easy answers?
15) The Outsider
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In the 1800s, a railroad worker (Jon Foo) finds himself on the wrong side of a lawless frontier. As the Marshall (Country Music Star Trace Adkins) attempts to control his corrupt town, tragedy strikes sending the railroad worker on a path of revenge.
16) The Outsider
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Nobody was stopping Leon Moses from settling on the spread he had bought with his pay from long, hard years with the 10th Cavalry. Not the slick lawyer who cheated him on the sale. Not the rustlers who ran off his stock. Not the law that turned its back on him. Not the neighboring ranchers who turned their guns on him. Not the attacking Apaches who turned the sea of grass red with blood. Leon Moses was a black who had to show a lot of folks that courage...
17) The Outsider
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He's not like other guys. Liz has seen him around school. It's hard to miss Max-the tall, blond, blue-eyed senior stands out among all the other students at Roswell High. So why is he such a loner? Max is in love with Liz. He loves the way her eyes light up when she laughs and the way her long, black hair moves when she turns her head. Most of all, he loves to imagine what it would be like to kiss her. But he knows he can't get too close. He can't...
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A no-holds-barred memoir by the original bad boy of tennis. Jimmy Connors ignited the tennis boom in the 1970s with his aggressive style of play, turning his matches with John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, and Ivan Lendl into prizefights. But it was his prolonged dedication to his craft that won him the public's adoration. He capped off one of the most remarkable runs in tennis history at the age of 39 when he reached the semifinals of the 1991 U.S. Open,...
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Frederick Forsyth has seen it all. And lived to tell the tale. 'We all make mistakes, but starting the Third World War would have been a rather large one. To this day, I still maintain it was not entirely my fault. But I'm getting ahead of myself. During the course of my life, I've barely escaped the wrath of an arms dealer in Hamburg, been strafed by a MiG during the Nigerian civil war, and landed during a bloody coup in Guinea-Bissau. The Stasi...
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