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1) The Runaways
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With the success of their all-girl teenage rock band The Runaways, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie's friendship begins to unwind after Currie decides to leave the group.
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D. W. Griffith reached a pinnacle of expressiveness in this tender yet tragic tale of love and suffering in the seedy Limehouse district of London. Richard Barthelmess gives a sensitive portrayal of a Chinese man who travels to England to spread the pacifist teachings of the Orient, but it is Lillian Gish who illuminates the screen. In this, the most heart-rending performance of her career, she plays a fifteen-year-old street urchin who longs to escape...
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"Phoebe ... is a beautiful Southern belle engaged to handsome Spanish nobleman Don Andrea. When a former beau interrupts their wedding ceremony, he is accidentally killed by the groom-to-be, sending Andrea to Texas to avoid the authorities and to wait for his beloved. At the border, Andrea teams with wise-cracking Sam Hollis ... who is recruiting gunmen to help him, and his Indian co-hort to escort a shipment of guns through hostile Comanche territory"--Container....
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Mandie book volume 1
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When Mandie Shaw runs away from her log cabin home in 1899, she convinces Cherokee friends to help her escape into the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. After a treacherous journey, they reach the extravagant mansion of Uncle John, only to discover that his ship has been lost at sea. The house staff, headed by caretaker Jason Bond, kindly allows Mandie to remain. When strangers arrive claiming to be the rightful heirs to Uncle John's fortune,...
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Missouri traveler: "A young runaway learns the ways of the world from a hard-nosed farmer."--Container.
Long road home: "On a rural Utah ranch, a12-year-old boy and his hardened grandfather must team up to protect the livestock from a rogue grizzly bear."--Container.
Huckleberry Finn: "Capturing all the heart and soul of Mark Twain's timeless novel, Ron Howrad stars as Huckleberry Finn in this raging river adventure"--Container.
Underdog: "In the...