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After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has been thriving in both his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian a fighter who has nothing to lose.

In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...

They say it's a thin line between love and hate. How far would you go to ensure that your happiness comes first? Asia thought she had it all, the life she finally felt like she deserved and the man with the means to finance it. Kloxx thought he found his equal fun half, that was until he found Yasmine. He already had Asia and she played her role well but something was missing. They needed more as a couple. Yasmine had been stumbling through life....

Starring in a teen reality show with an all-Asian American cast, Sabine Zhang sees this as her opportunity to step into the spotlight, but when the producers want drama at all costs, she is pitted against Yoona Bae. When Sabine Zhang is picked for Hotel California, a teen reality show with an all-Asian cast, she jumps at the opportunity. As one of few Asians at her high school in the Midwest, she's always felt as if she was playing a side character...

Peter, a successful bachelor, feels no interest in a charming woman named Agnes, but longs for his childhood neighbor, Mary. When he is commissioned by British royalty to rebuild some stables, he is delighted to find that the spirited Duchess is actually his long-lost beloved. Her quick-tempered husband becomes violent when he discovers their past, but his jealousy is no match for their will to be together.

Emmy winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars as divorced working mother Christine Campbell, who attempts to juggle the daily stresses of motherhood and business -- which doesn't mean she isn't prone to taking NyQuil to get to sleep or leaving voice-mail messages to herself in the middle of the night. In the fifth season of this hilarious ensemble comedy, Christine goes to the Bahamas to sort out her best friend Barb's immigration issues, but finds that Barb's...

Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to get their people to safety and survive themselves....

"A how-to in becoming more understanding and considerate of others, and to find joy that comes from being seen."--

After a teenage girl's perplexing suicide, a classmate recieves a series of tapes that unravel the mystery of her tragic choice.

1815. Lady Grace Carpenter is ready to seize the day---or rather, the night--with the most compelling man she's ever known. Marriage would mean losing guardianship of her beloved siblings, and surely no sane gentleman will take on seven children not his own. But if she can have one anonymous tryst with Mattheus, Earl of Worthington, Grace will be content to live out the rest of her life as a spinster. Matt had almost given up hope of finding a wife...