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17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

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In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.

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Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

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The story or two men who fall in love and move in together.

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Balthazar and siblings Christian and Lyla have been friends since childhood. As the trio struggles with coming of age in a rural, conservative Canadian town, they must confront escalating desires for one another that threaten to destroy their delicate bond.

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The story follows two Malay families from different socio-political backgrounds who discover they have more in common than they thought when a family secret is revealed.

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In the Deep South during the late 19th century, a young boy goes on the annual hunt in the Big Bottom where he confronts Old Ben, a bear that has always eluded the hunters.

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A man wants to report that he has been raped by woman, but the authorities do not believe his story.

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A father joins his son as he searches for Heaven in the night's sky, each hoping to catch a glimpse of his own grandmother.

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A mother who is addicted to meth in New Mexico has a son who is left alone.