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People often think that when you live in a small house, it's because you don't have the means to live in a larger home. In most cases this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that small house living typically equates to a much more fulfilling life. Through the process of downsizing your life in regards to material possessions, clutter, and the size of your dwelling, you come to understand a new ideal in which freedom is the name of the game.

Protagonist Sean Malone's journey begins at 14. He has an IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning streak on Jeopardy. However, he wishes he could just be normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker to pursue a covert operation and killing innocent people along the way. When Sean pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder. He flees to Europe to build a new life under a new name, hiding his mental gift from everyone.

Bunny and Cody are a pair of escorts entertaining two low-rent dope dealers in a seedy motel. When one of the dealers attacks Cody, Bunny takes the law into her own hands and shoots the men dead.

This homage to a by-gone era of classic "Detective Noir" stories is a fun and exciting journey through the streets of L.A. in 1945. Lucky is returning home from World War II to restart his life up as a L.A.P.D. cop, when a case nobody wants lead him on a journey of self discovery he will never forget. Love, lust, and lamentation, travel beside Lucky through intrigue, mystery and murder, all conspiring to turn a hero into another gritty L.A. shamus reminiscent of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.

Dworshak isn't a lake in the classical sense of the word, but a reservoir; a portion of the once narrow northern fork of the Clearwater River, dammed up to generate power and prevent the yearly spring floods that once plagued the town of Orofino. If half the rumors about Dworshak were true, it would surely be haunted. Stories about a small trade town, its buildings deserted but still intact, buried under hundreds of feet of dark water.

The truth was never meant to surface. When a woman stumbles upon a failed cloning experiment, fear takes hold. The wreckage of betrayal threatens everything she loves, but the terror has only begun. In a cursed graveyard, desperation tightens its grip as two souls flee a vengeful coven. The darkness grows, ready to consume them. A man, bound by the weight of family tradition, faces a brutal choice. Obedience or freedom. The chains have held him for years, but breaking them may cost more than he can bear.

One man determination to stand up and fight for the good of the British people to write a book to expose the government leaders that is making life hard for the people trying to make a living in the UK, the government industry's are taking away jobs by making this country under productive running the economy into the ground, forcing people into redundancy, and unemployment, miss managing the economy.

"Mad Max" meets "Blue Velvet" It's 2026. The world has suffered massive deprivation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that survived nature's warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate. The elderly were less fortunate.

Shaeffer is an old-school heistman. You need an armored car taken or a football stadium's gate receipts lifted, you call Shaeffer and his buddies. But the world is fast moving to a cashless economy. Everyone is paying with Paypal, debit cards, or electronic fund transfers these days. Join an aging heistman as he tries to deal with an increasingly high-tech society, feeling more and more left behind.

When novelist Jim Eldridge receives an invitation to a writer's retreat on Washington State's Mount Misery, it seems like the perfect escape from the last days of his dead marriage. Jim accepts the invitation to the Hacks Club and joins the other guests including the legendary H. Casper and best-seller Heather Woods for a week of fun and relaxation. Someone in those woods is not happy to see them. The body count rises, and the survivors band together to fight the relentless killer.

Humanity has reached for the stars and has gained complete domination. The human empire has remain unchallenged... until now. A new alien race is discovered, and they are as human as we are. Unfortunately for Earth the aliens are far more advanced technologically, smarter than the average Earth human, and are just as aggressive. Maybe it doesn't help that they are all psychopaths. Bill is just training to be a combat marine in a war that Earth based humanity is losing.

While taking a class trip to South America, sixteen friends are ambushed, captured and taken to a nearby village run by a mad man. It becomes clear that this is no ordinary village. It is a village of slaves, psychological warfare, and pure terror. With nothing but her wits and the voice of her dead uncle to guide her, Brooke Kylee must find a way to escape the horror while still maintaining the one thing she has left: her sanity.

Il giovane Victor Frankenstein, dopo aver acquisito conoscenze mediche e dopo aver studiato i fenomeni che riguardano il corpo umano post-mortem, realizza il suo sogno, regalando vita a una creatura dall’aspetto deforme e con una forza immane, formata unendo parti di corpi morti. Dopo diverse vicissitudini, il mostro lo supplica di toglierlo da un’insopportabile solitudine e di creare per lui una compagna. Il rifiuto da parte del suo creatore suscita l’ira incontenibile della creatura.

Un pugno di ragazzi a Edimburgo e dintorni: il sesso, lo sballo, la rabbia, il vuoto delle giornate. Sono i dannati di un modernissimo inferno chimico, dalla vita sfilacciata e senza scampo. Alla ricerca di un riscatto, di un senso da dare alla propria esistenza - che non sia il vicolo cieco fatto di casa, famiglia e impiego ordinario - trovano nella droga e nella violenza l'unica risposta possibile. Sboccato, indiavolato, travolgente: l'esordio prodigioso di un grande talento letterario, il romanzo shock che ha fatto epoca e dato voce a una nuova generazione.

Il caso George Floyd infiamma l'America: Minneapolis senza pace: dietro la rivolta, la mano dei suprematisti, di Robert J. Armstrong; America in stato di coprifuoco. Scontro sugli infiltrati in piazza, di Federico Rampini; Lo sceriffo di Flint sfila con la protesta: "Ora facciamo la Storia", di Federico Rampini; Trump sul sagrato: "Bibbia e forze armate". E la rivolta accende la sua sfida con Biden, di Federico Rampini; New York, Saviano: "Dal fallimento di Obama al razzismo di Trump: saccheggi una questione sociale", di Roberto Saviano.

È vero ho sparato sei pallottole in testa al mio migliore amico, ma spero di dimostrare, attraverso la storia che sto per raccontare, che non sono il suo assasino Letto da Roberto Pedicini, la voce italiana di Javier Bardem, Kevin Spacey e Jim Carrey, sulle musiche di Ludwig van Beethoven e Hector Berlioz arrangiate in chiave elettronica.

I forestieri visitano Dunwich molto raramente, tutte le indicazioni stradali sono state rimosse da quando sono accaduti quegli orribili fatti. Forse una ragione c'è, è che le persone del luogo sono decadenti in modo spaventoso.

Femminista, animalista, dedita alla medicina alternativa. Avrebbe qualche problema oggi. Ma nel XVI secolo, Rosmunda era considerata una strega. Le appassionanti avventure di una donna dallo spirito libero, in viaggio dall'Italia fino a Londra e ritorno. Rosmunda, sballottata da vicende che ne metterebbero alla prova la volontà di reagire, riesce invece ad affrontarle ogni volta con rinnovata energia e con una predisposizione all'amore per il prossimo che ricorda gli insegnamenti religiosi. Tutto nasce da ritrovamenti casuali di diari e di manoscritti che riportano a tempi lontani.

Tano è un ragazzo intelligente e acuto nelle sue osservazioni. Precocemente maturo per la perdita del padre, ucciso in un agguato da due malviventi, vive con la madre. Di lui si occupa anche una tata perché la madre è molto assorbita dal lavoro: è infatti avvocato penalista. In una bella giornata estiva, mentre gioca sul prato contiguo al giardino della sua villa, Tano trova interrato un fucile, che comincia ad intessere un dialogo col fanciullo il quale, allibito, deve accettare il fatto che "alcuni fucili parlano".

C'erano una volta un re, un finto marchese, un orco affamato... Ma soprattutto c'era un gatto con qualcosa di molto speciale ai piedi! Produzione Istituto Barlumen. Regia: Gaetano Cappa