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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist impressed and infatuated by Dorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian's beauty is responsible for the new mood in his art as a painter. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic world view: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Newly understanding that his beauty...
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A delightful be-careful-what-you-wish-for romantic comedy starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. On the eve of her 13th birthday, all Jenna Rink wants is to be pretty and popular. After a humiliating experience with the coolest boy in school, Jenna makes a desperate wish for a new life. Miraculously, her wish comes true, but with one catch... it's 17 years later and she's a 13-year-old trapped inside her 30-year-old body.
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[2011]
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How The (Bleep) Did I Get This Old? is a compilation of selected irreverent humpr columns about aging and other uninvited affronts to one's dignity and self-esteem. It showcases the best of "Laverne's View" a column Laverne H. Bardy started writing in 1999, that has been syndicated since 2004. Readers respond to her saucy observations with countless e-mails and letters.
7) The death of the grown-up: how America's arrested development is bringing down western civilization
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2007.
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First edition.
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English
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Diana West sees a US filled with middle-age guys playing air guitar and thinks "No wonder we can't stop Islamic terrorism." She sees Moms Who Mosh and wonders "Is there a single adult left anywhere?" But, the grown-ups are all gone. The disease that killed them was incubated in the sixties to a rock-and-roll score, took hold in the seventies with the help of multiculturalism and left us with a nation of eternal adolescents who can't decide between...
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[2006]
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"The science of growing young (neoteny) provides the underlying hypothesis for activities in this book on reviving ten youthful traits: resilience, optimism, wonder, curiosity, joy, humor, music, work, play, learning. Across all, there is love. Reader selects preferred activities for growing young--from the inside out"--Provided by publisher.
9) Big
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2003.
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Widescreen.
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English
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After a twelve-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him older, he manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
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[2008]
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English
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Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge...
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[2005]
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English
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During the 1930's, the world of the British uppercrust society is one of nightclubs, dancing, jazz and speed. Their lives revolve around an endless series of parties and pleasure seeking - including motorcars, jazz bands, gossip journalism, drugs, gramophones ... Inevitably, however, the frantic pace of living begins to take its toll and one by one they begin to crash and burn in the search for newer and faster sensations.
12) Idol dreams: 4
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[2017]
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Shojo Beat edition.
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"To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Chikage tells Tokita she's decided to date the teenage Ru as her 15-year-old self, and Tokita wonders how things might have been different if he had confessed his feelings for her back in high school." -- cover.
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