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-A proud misanthrope and self confessed weirdo, Bibi has been known to mutter "Beam me up now please Scotty" from time to time.
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Books I just couldn't put down ...
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By TJ Klune - both lovely and funny. A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret. Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.
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By Jerry Craft - great story AND jaw-dropping art in this GN After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
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-I related to this tale about insecurity & creativity Follows the experiences of Mona Starr, who learns how to manage her profound feelings of unworthiness through therapy, art, writing, and the support of a few good friends.
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- terror, humor, magic, AND cats​. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang.
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- what happens when a bookstore owner's list starts getting followed by a murderer? From the hugely talented author of Before She Knew Him comes a chilling tale of psychological suspense and an homage to the thriller genre tailor-made for fans: the story of a bookseller who finds himself at the center of an FBI investigation because a very clever killer has started using his list of fiction's most ingenious murders
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-the imagination shown is just breath-taking. Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even his own name. But he can feel the pulse of the city, can see its history, can access its magic. And he's not the only one. All across the boroughs, strange things are happening. Something is threatening to destroy the city and her six newborn avatars unless they can come together and stop it once and for all.
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Foyle's War- incredible acting & writing (based on actual WWII events) - couldn't get enough of the 8 seasons of this British drama. English Detective Christopher Foyle solves crimes on the home front while he reluctantly sits out on World War II. Starring Michael Kitchen, Anthony Howell, Honeysuckle Weeks, and Julian Overden.
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- brilliant sequel to the best (or 2nd best) GN of all time; innovative and well acted. Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, this series embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel of the same name, while attempting to break new ground of its own. Starring Regina King, Yahya Abdul-mateen Ii, Tom Mison, Sara Vickers, Jeremy Irons, Andrew Howard, Louis Gossett Jr., Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, James Wolk, Frances Fisher, and Don Johnson.
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-many seasons of this British show about tracking down bad cops. Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott is a London police officer who refused to participate in a bureaucratic cover-up following a botched counterterrorism raid. Made a pariah by his colleagues, Arnott is forced to transfer to the anti-corruption department, where he quickly discovers that a celebrated officer, DCI Gates, has much to hide in both his personal and professional lives. Starring Gina McKee, Kate Ashfield, Martin Compston, Lennie James, and Vicky McClure.
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- believe it or not, I had never seen a Charlie Chaplin -or Buster Keaton- movie before - my gawd; what talent! Chaplin plays the double role of the persecuted Jewish barber and Adenoid Hynkel, dictator of Tomania. The barber is imprisoned, escapes, and is finally mistaken for the dictator at which point he makes an impassioned, humanistic speech which amazes the dictator's followers. Starring and directed by Charlie Chaplin and featuring Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Henry Daniell, Reginald Gardiner, and Billy Gilbert.
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-I was constantly stunned while watching how topical this 1957 [a great year] film was, as well as the acting ability of Andy Griffith. A hobo becomes an overnight celebrity. But, as usual, more fame leads to more power, and more power leads to more corruption. Will he be exposed as the fraud that he is? Directed by Elia Kazan and starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Anthony Franciosa, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, Percy Waram, Rod Brasfield, Marshal Nielan, Charles Irving, Howard Smith, Paul McGrath, Kay Medford, and Alexander Kirkland.
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Through comic mayhem that stretches from the White House and through the heartland, Columbus, Tallahasse, Wichita, and Little Rock must face off against the many new kinds of zombies that have evolved since the first movie, as well as some new human survivors. But most of all, they have to face the growing pains of their own snarky, makeshift family. Directed by Rubin Fleischer and starring Zoey Deutch, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Bill Murray, Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Avan Jogia, Jesse Eisenberg, Luke Wilson, Dan Aykroyd, and Thomas Middleditch.
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