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"The bloody victory of the Corleone Family was not complete," begins the final chapter of Mario Puzo's The Godfather, "until a year of delicate manoeuvring established Michael Corleone as the most powerful Family chief in the United States." The Godfather: The Lost Years takes place in the years 1955-65, but it is built upon the story of that "year of delicate political manoeuvring" and how, in winning the battle of that year, Michael Corleone set the stage to lose the war.

When intelligence officer Kabir is sent to Rajgir to recover from a personal tragedy, he doesn’t expect to be thrust into a conspiracy that could rewrite the global power structure. A sniper’s bullet, a cryptic inscription, and a murdered archaeologist catapult him into a perilous chase across India’s ancient sites. Teaming up with fiery historian Reeya Ghosh, Kabir uncovers secrets buried for millennia: the legendary wootz steel and its lost connection to the clean and abundant thorium energy.

Fresh off a breakup with her cheating Italian boyfriend in Como, 24-year-old New Yorker Jayne is emotionally fried and financially...let’s just say her wallet is crying in five languages. She’s got two options: fly home to Manhattan and face her sister’s smug “I told you so,” or stick it out in the land of la dolce chaos and chase her fashion dreams.

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608-1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and it helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time.

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with love. However, when she 'inherits' a niece that she never knew existed, doubling her meagre family overnight, Jude's life is soon set to get a lot less lonely and a lot more interesting.

At Lost Lake, a few of the students and instructors feel a tremor that arrives with a wake-up call—or those willing to listen and act. Wild life veterinarian, Josephe Rondeau, suspects that someone at the New York State lab may be purposely “losing” the bodies of wild creatures she has sent to determine the cause of their suspicious deaths. Among the students, Rocco is now driven to save to a beautifully marked bear cub he nursed back to health now sought by a trophy hunter.

Before the Kalakeya invasion, Baahubali and Bhallaladeva were young princes of Mahishmati, competing for rule of the greatest kingdom of its age. Listen to their epic adventures as they fight to prove who is most worthy to one day wear the crown. Under the watchful eye of Sivagami, and the warrior Kattappa, one shall rise to be king of the throne, while the other shall become king of the people. Hear their epic tale, narrated by the warrior Katappa, in S.S. Rajamouli's Baahubali: The Lost Legends!

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.

Baahubali: The Lost Legends continues in Season 2! Join Katappa as he narrates the exciting and incredible adventures of Baahubali and Bhallaladeva as they take on enemies of Mahishmati both within and without! The two brothers will have to battle against mighty warriors, powerful queens, and even journey to the land of the rising sun to protect their mother Rajmata Sivagami and the kingdom of Mahishmati!

An editor receives a manuscript purporting to be the lost diary of history's greatest lover, Don Juan. An orphan left on the steps of a convent, Don Juan grew up within the church but his ambitions towards the priesthood fell to the wayside when he was seduced by a young nun. Evicted from the convent, he was taken under the wing of the libertine Don Pedro, the Marquis of Mota, who coached him in skills both courtly and amorous and then employed him as a spy at court.

Grace, a family therapist, returns from a cruise to find that life has been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Her daughter's graduate program goes virtual, and her grandson on the spectrum is home 24/7 with school by Zoom. Her best friend, Katrina, contracts the virus early on but isn't recovering. On top of that, Grace is called to facilitate a COVID grief group, whose members express rage and sadness at the senseless deaths of people they love.

The Lost World is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine and illustrated by New-Zealand-born artist Harry Rountree during the months of April-November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures.

Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only 14, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly...Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic event. Jane is relieved to finally talk about her adored cousin. And so is her family.

For the first time in your life, she is going to tell you the truth.... Then: a trip to the beach tore Becky’s world apart. It was the day her mother, Selma, met the mysterious man she went on to fall in love with and leave her husband and child for. Now: it’s been a decade since they last spoke, but Selma has just weeks to live. And she has something important to tell Becky - a secret she been hiding for many years. She had another daughter. With the loss of her mother, Becky aches to find her sister.

Eine unglaubliche Familiengeschichte aus Island - turbulent, komisch und abgrundtief traurig zugleich - vom Münchner Schauspieler Michael von Au intensiv und mitreißend erzählt - nach Mikael Torfasons autobiographischem Roman "Lost in Paradise Islands arme Könige... ein amerikanischer Himmel... und ich, Torfis zweiter Sohn". Mikaels Eltern Torfi und Hulda Fríða leben als junges, bettelarmes Paar am untersten Rand der isländischen Gesellschaft. Etwa um die Zeit der Geburt ihres zweiten Sohnes Mikael wenden sie sich den Zeugen Jehovas zu.

When a mysterious countess arrives late in life to live in a large house on the outskirts of a beautiful Hampshire village, the local tongues start wagging. No one is more intrigued than Cecily Chadwick, idling away the long, hot summer of 1911 with nothing much to do. Cecily is deeply...

Mita "Sweet Lips" Cruz never had much chance to enjoy her youth because of her drug-addicted mother’s attraction to lowlife men. After she survives a vicious assault at the hands of her stepfather on her 14th birthday, Mita desperately searches for the meaning of unconditional love in the streets of North Philadelphia. When she discovers that she is carrying the child of her rapist, it’s too much for her damaged soul to bear. With an ugly future ahead of her, Mita puts the newborn up for adoption, vowing to seek revenge for the violations against her.