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"Fifteen years ago, Krista Bremer could not have imagined her life today: married to a Libyan-born Muslim, raising two children with Arabic names in the American South. Nor could she have imagined the prejudice she would encounter or the profound ways her marriage would change her perception of the world. This is the story of two people -- a middle-class Californian and a Muslim raised by illiterate parents in an impoverished Libyan fishing village...
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"It's April 1948, and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute seven-year-old Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family's orange tree; the next he is swept away into a life of exile and rage. Seeking a new beginning in swinging-Sixties London, Salim finds an unexpected love with Jude, a troubled Jewish girl struggling with her own devastating family legacy. The bond between them flourishes in the freedom of the age, bringing the promise...
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"It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro's traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forges on. They build a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopt at birth. Eventually, they...
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This is a love story like no other: Elinor Powell was an African American nurse in the U.S. military during World War II; Frederick Albert was a soldier in Hitler’s army, captured by the Allies and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in the Arizona desert. Like most other black nurses, Eleanor pulled a second-class assignment, in a dusty, sun-baked—and segregated—Western town. The army figured that the risk of fraternization between black nurses...
5) Instant love
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distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Rhonda Fleming shines as Pamela, an American film star who falls in love with coffee grower Claudio while in Brazil. When the two are hastily married, Pamela finds herself entwined in a clash of cultures in this rarely seen romantic comedy.
7) Street music
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Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Poke Rafferty's hand-made intercultural family is disrupted in unexpectedly complicated ways by the birth of his son, littering their small Bangkok apartment with emotional land mines. At the same time, the most cantankerous member of the small gang of Old Bangkok Hands who hang out at The Expat Bar suddenly goes missing under suspicious circumstances. Engaged in the search for the missing American and the challenges of life with a newborn, Rafferty...
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Prószyński Media
Pub. Date
2020.
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Polish
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"Daria Salimi vel Darin al-Saud zostawia za sobą praworządny świat, bo pomsta za zmarnowane lata i krzywdy staje się celem jej życia, Marysia zaś w głębi ducha pragnie zemścić się na swojej rywalce Salmie, która odebrała jej życiowego partnera, Hamida Binladena. Czy pandemia COVID-19 ogarnie też arabski świat, zagrozi członkom rodziny Salimich, rozprawi się z ich wrogami, ale czy nie zagrozi tym, których kochają? Akcja najnowszej...