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The Nightingale

Two sisters live in France at the beginning of World War II. The older sister, Vianne Mauriac, says goodbye to her husband, who's heading off to fight in the war. She and her daughter become prisoners in their own home after it's requisitioned by German forces, and Vianne is faced with making impossible choices to save her family. Her younger sister, Isabelle, is an 18-year-old girl who falls for a young man who eventually betrays her. She then joins the Resistance and begins risking her life to save others.

Klara and the Sun

From her place in the store, Klara, an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her.

The Way: Chapter 2

10 years after Tom, Sarah, Joost and Jack end their pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago… Tom is now embedded with Doctors Without Borders in northern Nigeria, performing surgery in the war zone. When Sarah sends him Jack’s bestselling book based on their shared experience, a disturbing secret is revealed. Enraged, Tom leaves to search for Jack and find answers to questions that have haunted him for a decade. His journey reunites him with Joost and leads them through Amsterdam, Dublin, Brussels and France before returning to Spain and the Camino…

A Deadly Education

Set at a dangerous school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death, there are no teachers, no holidays, friendships are purely strategic, and the odds of survival are never equal. Once you're inside, there are only two ways out: you graduate or you die. El Higgins is uniquely prepared for the school's many dangers. She may be without allies, but she possesses a dark power strong enough to level mountains and wipe out untold millions – never mind easily destroy the countless monsters that prowl the school. Except, she might accidentally kill all the other students, too.

Juror No. 2

Follows family man Justin Kemp (Hoult) who, while serving as a juror in a high-profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma … one he could use to sway the jury verdict and potentially convict — or free — the wrong killer.

Barca

An epic cinematic portrait of FC Barcelona (‘Barça’), focusing specifically on a journey that led Barça to the apotheosis of the world game over a four-year period during which they won everything there was to win, triggering near unanimous admiration. Football is by far the world’s favorite pastime, uniting devotees across every religion, race, culture and language.

Dangerous Odds

Marisa Lankester, a young beautiful woman, becomes an insider of the sports betting empire run by Ron "The Cigar" Sacco. She falls in love with his business partner, and moves the business with him from L.A. to Vegas and then the Dominican Republic, where gambling is legal. While she becomes a top model as well as a gambling mogul there, her existence devolves into a nightmare of incarceration and rape, before she finally escapes. She now lives in Switzerland.

Everest

In 1924, George Mallory makes an ascent of Mount Everest. But he and Andrew Irvine mysteriously never return from their climb. His legacy involves the possibility that he, and not Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit.

The Language of Flowers

A young woman brought up in the foster care system learns to overcome her troubled by past by communicating through the Victorian art of flower arrangement. She ultimately is able to reconcile with the only mother she has ever known and accept the love of a flower vendor.

Fela Kuti

A human rights activist, sexual revolutionary, and political maverick, Fela Kuti was one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was the king of Afrobeat, a fusion of jazz, funk, psychedelic rock, and Yoruba chants and rhythms. Taking on Nigeria’s rapidly changing and often corrupt government in the 1970s, Fela pushed boundaries in art and life. His legacy as a charismatic visionary continues to inspire the contemporary hip-hop world and generations of artists who believe in the power of music to transform people and cultures.

Frybread Face and Me

Story of two adolescent Navajo cousins from different worlds who bond during a summer herding sheep on their grandmother’s ranch in Arizona while learning more about their family’s past and themselves.

Ground Control To Major...

An astronaut and a NASA ground control expert have never met but fall in love over the course of the astronaut's classified mission to an abandoned space station. When things go wrong and the astronaut's ship is destroyed, ground control and the rest of the world presume he's dead — until 18 months pass and they receive word he's alive. Now, the only thing standing between them is a huge expanse of space and a dangerous attempt to get him home.

Hummingbird

A black-ops assassin's latest mark forces her to question the truth of her identity, and ultimately confront the unsettling fact that she's more than a hired gun, she is an entirely new breed of weapon.

Skinny and Cat

During a short marriage, writer Erskine Caldwell and photojournalist Margaret Bourke White collaborate on a number of books.