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Four-year-old Marissa Fordham, brutally slashed and mutilated, witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer.
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2019.
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English
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"In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarefied bubble. When freshmen David and Sarah fall headlong into love, their passion does not go unnoticed--or untoyed with--by anyone, especially their charismatic acting teacher, Mr. Kingsley. The outside world fails to penetrate this school's walls--until it does, in a shocking spiral of events that catapults the action...
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody Rise, a "shimmering" (New York Times Book Review) novel with the exquisite historical detail and evocative settings of The Cold Millions and Great Circle that tells the story of one unforgettable woman's rise in country and western music.
It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time.
Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually
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Gunpowder & Sky
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Russian
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Leningrad, one summer in the early '80s. The underground rock scene is boiling. Among the followers of Zeppelin and Bowie, young Viktor Tsoi is eager to make a name for himself. An encounter with his idol Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha will change his life forever. Together they will build Viktor's legend and make him immortal.
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Penny Vincenzi, master of the contemporary blockbuster, returns with a moving, engaging portrait of people coping with a notorious financial disaster and its unpredictable emotional repercussions.
Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, An Absolute Scandal follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary woes when the great financial institution Lloyd's undergoes a devastating downturn. For Nigel Cowper,...
Set during the boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, An Absolute Scandal follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by their mutual monetary woes when the great financial institution Lloyd's undergoes a devastating downturn. For Nigel Cowper,...
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Javed, a British teen of Pakistani descent, is growing up in England in 1987. Amidst the racial and economic turmoil of the times, he writes poetry as a means to escape the intolerance of his hometown and the inflexibility of his traditional father. But when he is introduced to the music of 'the Boss,' Javed sees parallels to his working-class life in Springsteen's powerful lyrics.
10) 1985
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English
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Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian (Cory Michael Smith, “Gotham”) returns to his Texas hometown for the holidays during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in New York City, Adrian looks to reconnect with his preteen brother Andrew (Aidan Langford) while navigating his relationship with religious parents Eileen (Academy Award Nominee Virginia Madsen) and Dale (Golden Globe...
11) Air
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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From award-winning director Ben Affleck, it reveals the unbelievable game-changing partnership between a then-rookie Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and contemporary culture with the Air Jordan brand. This moving story follows the career-defining gamble of an unconventional team with everything on the line, the uncompromising vision of a mother who knows the worth of her son's immense...
12) 8-bit Christmas
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In 1980s Chicago, a 10-year-old sets out on a quest to get the Christmas gift of his generation: the latest and greatest video game system.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof's free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive. Shunned and ostracized by many old friends and bereft of government-approved medicines, he decided to take matters in his own hands, tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Bypassing the establishment, he joined forces with an unlikely band of renegades and outcasts and established a hugely...
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HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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It's 1985 and the party of the '70s is slowing down. 42nd Street has deteriorated into a world of crime, seedy video stores, and peep shows; VHS has overtaken film as porn's primary medium, and the AIDS epidemic has had a devastating impact. Welcome to the third and final season of the gritty HBO series that follows the interconnected lives of barkeeps, prostitutes, pimps, the police, mobsters, and adult film actors and producers in Times Square.
15) Born to the dark
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Three births of Daoloth volume 2
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Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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This companion book to the 1980 Census provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America from 1980 to 1989. Readers will uncover how American life was affected by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Computer Age, and Reagan-era prosperity and decadence. Collecting information from government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine features, this book assembles...
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Mia knows her family is very different than her best friend's. In the 1980s, the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert is booming. There is plenty of sockeye salmon in the nearby ocean, which means the fishermen are happy and there is plenty of work at the cannery. Eleven-year-old Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. Like most tweens, they like to hang out and compare notes on their crushes and dream about their...
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"In Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale examines the town's flourishing as a Southern alternative culture mecca, emerging out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and early 1970s to become home for a set of artistic, social, and political alternatives to northern liberalism or urban punk on the left and Sunbelt Republicanism on the right. In this moment of cultural flourishing, Hale argues, a generation of young white southerners could not or did...
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Appian Way
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Sex. Money. Power. Drugs. Brace yourself for an outrageous true story from legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Jordan Belfort, a young stockbroker, is hungry for fame and glory in New York City, where corruption is king and more is never enough.
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