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After her only friend is expelled from their private school in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Cat Storm wants to get close to a boy she is attracted to…

Gloria, Barabara and Buddy are working at the sheet music counter in a New York department store. On a trip of the whole store, Gloria, who’s in love with Buddy,…

Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who…

Jet Li weasels out of the north Shaolin temple to assassinate a despotic ruler at the ruler’s extravagant public birthday celebration. Two other men from the south Shaolin temple also…

A young violinist with leukemia brings hope and life into a desolate Russian hospital for children.

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Andrew Marr deconstructs detective fiction, fantasy epics and spy novels – the books we really read. He unpicks their conventions to show how these books keep us turning the page.

A life-long yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang raped his wife.

Siu-bak-choi (“Little Cabbage”) is a female servant of the physician Yeung Nai-mou. Yeung invents a type of condom to help people avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases, but his idea was…

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are going on a fishing trip, and while they are riding the train, they meet Watson’s old friend Reggie Taunton. Taunton asks Holmes if the…

A space-ship gets lost and is forced to make an emergency landing on an unknown planet. The planet looks much like Earth, only with no trace of civilization. Soon the…

Molly Fitzgerald, who works for Abrams and Co. Jewelers (although the company safe reads “Adams & Co. Jewelers”), is accosted on the street by a stranger who asks her for…