Peter O'Brien
1) Bush School
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There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails to hang even a hat, no door, no rug for cold morning bare feet, no bookshelf for a voracious reader, no bedside cupboard for a lamp or a glass of water, no light source - just a bed and a suitcase for the next two years.
In 1960, newly minted teacher Peter O'Brien started work as the only teacher...
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What are the right words to use... when someone we love leaves home for school, a new job, or for extended travel? How to compress so many memories, feelings, and emotions? When do words of advice, counsel, or wisdom work best?
“Love & Let Go” sets out to achieve this impossible task and succeeds! The author' s daughter is about to leave home to continue her education. In thirty-five brief chapters, he offers reflections, encouragements, words...
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Sarah Noble, an awkward yet precocious girl, is wracked by fears of Indians having witnessed the aftermath of her grandmother's death in Deerfield, MA during an Indian raid. She has recurrent nightmares, visitations by an eerie pale horse with glowing eyes. Against all odds, her father John chooses her to accompany him to their new homesite deep within Indian territory in the Connecticut colony. His cryptic explanation that she needs seasoning, however,...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
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After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long since destroyed by disease. But when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of trusting him.
5) Unlocked
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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A CIA interrogator is lured into a ruse that puts London at risk of a biological attack.
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Seven Productions
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A gripping Australian murder mystery series. After years of solving serious crimes, Detective Sergeant Eve Winter has grown weary of the brutality and resigned herself to a quieter life. But when the search for a missing girl in a small Australian town uncovers five dead bodies in a field, Eve is convinced by her old partner and ex-flame, Lachlan McKenzie, to join the case.
7) Maximum ride
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Max, a teenage superhero with wings, leads her motley crew in a battle against the scientists that created them. In the process, they discover secrets from their past that are darker than they imagined.
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When a teen girl named Becky goes missing in the small country town of Mingara, an extensive search uncovers the corpses of five dead women in a field. Is Becky still alive, or has she been taken by the same killer? Eve Winter leads an elite team of homicide detectives in the investigation.
9) Shades
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ITV Studios
Pub. Date
2012
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Maeve and Mark meet in London under unusual circumstances: both are recently deceased. By turns moving and witty, the series explores what it means to have a chance to help, or hinder, those left behind. A quirky romantic comedy of life after death. Includes six episodes.
10) Breaker
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A troubled young veteran returns to his rural home and forms a friendship with a hermit rancher who offers sanctuary from his dysfunctional family.
11) Love of My Life
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Inside one of the many operating theaters of an old, abandoned hospital, a man awakes strapped to a table, disorientated and terrified. On the side of the room a single monitor, shows him a live feed of his girlfriend trapped downstairs in what looks to be the morgue. A man appears, decked out in surgeon's scrubs, and explains the situation to him - he will be tortured unspeakably and after five days, killed, at which point, his girlfriend will be...
12) The return
Publisher
Universal Picture
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Joanna Mills is a tough young woman who is determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. As a sales representative for a trucking company, Joanna has made a successful career for herself. But her private life has been difficult. She is estranged from her father, is being stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, and fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder...