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Have you ever heard of supernovas? They shine brighter than anything else in the sky and then fade out really quickly, a short burst of extraordinary energy. I like to think you and Ben were like that . . . in that short time, you had more passion than some people have in a lifetime.' Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one....
2) The humbling
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An aged and addled actor has his world turned upside down after he embarks upon an affair with a lesbian 30 years younger than him.
3) Ageless love
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It is a true story of unconditional love. Set in the early '60s, the couple lived in Philadelphia. Against all odds, their story depicts unconditional love and how their relationship began?, it was love at first sight for this couple in 1967. One year later while secretly dating, Yale seeks to propose marriage to Nina, but there is one problem?, Yale is 24 straight out of college and Nina is 38 widowed with five children. The drama escalates as Yale...
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"A razor-sharp debut novel about an ambitious young opera singer caught between devotion to her craft and an all-consuming affair with an older man"--
Anna doesn't fit in. Not with her wealthy classmates at the selective London Conservatory where she unexpectedly wins a place after university, not with the family she left behind, and definitely not with Max, a man she meets in the bar where she sings for cash. He's everything she's not-rich, tailored...
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Jayne Marks is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and also challenges her to see who and what she will...
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"At age 26, Advika Srinivasan considers herself a failed screenwriter. To pay the bills and keep her mind off of the recent death of her twin sister, she's taken to bartending A-list events, including the 2015 Governors Ball, the official afterparty of the Oscars. There, in a cinematic dream come true, she meets the legendary Julian Zelding--a film producer as handsome as Paul Newman and ten times as powerful--fresh off his fifth best picture win....
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Alone and adrift after losing both his job and his father on the same day, Eli Cooper accepts his sister's gift of a two-week forget-it-all vacation to Cuba. While there, he meets and falls in love with Mariela, an off-the-books tour guide some twenty years his junior. She appears to fall in love with him too, but she has secrets, and there's a chance that, rather than love, what she's really looking for is a ticket to a new life.
10) An education
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"A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age"--From www.imdb.com.
14) Adore
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"A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons"--from www.imdb.com.
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"It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton's senior, Edith is slow to trust. But...
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Criterion collection volume 95
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A wealthy widow marries her much younger gardener and becomes the target of small town gossip.
20) Madame Hayat
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Une histoire d'amour magnifique, celle d'un jeune homme pour une femme d'âge mr︣ qui éclaire et modifie son regard sur le sens de la vie. Un livre où la littérature, premier amour de ce garçon, devient vitale. Car dans une ville où règne l'effroi, seul l'imaginaire sauve de l'enfermement.
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