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If you love second chances and new beginnings in the second half of life, visit these heartwarming stories from Sunshine Bay. Love's Fresh StartAlone since her husband died, Sylvia yearns to rediscover life's joys. Convinced exercise will help, she reluctantly ventures out to the local park. There in the shrubbery, she discovers Angel, a skinny feral cat that needs someone to care. Life hit Jack with a double whammy: A heart attack forced him to stop...
42) Saving Sunshine
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Saving Sunshine volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's hard enough being a kid without being teased for a funny sounding name or wearing a hijab. It's even harder when you're constantly fighting your sibling--and Zara and Zeeshan really can't stand each other. During a family trip to Florida, when the bickering, shoving, and insults reach new heights of chaos, their parents sentence them to the worst possible fate--each other's company! But when the twins find an ailing turtle, it presents a rare...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Retired Detective Molly Murphy Sullivan is back with In Sunshine or in Shadow, the next book in this beloved series by New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen and Clare Broyles. New York, 1908: The days are getting longer-and warmer-in Manhattan. Molly Murphy Sullivan doesn't want to leave her home in the city, but typhoid is back, and she's expecting. So she heads north with the children to summer with her mother-in-law in Westchester County....
45) West of Sunshine
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Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Separated from his family and caught in a cycle of gambling and debt, Jim has less than a day to repay a violent loan shark. His day is turned upside down when he must look after his young. Jim's relationship with his son is tested as his plans to pay back the loan fail. When his last desperate effort to repay the debt puts his son's life at risk, he must make a choice between his past and a second chance at life. Nominated for Best Film and Best...
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Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This is the story of Margaret Humphreys (Emily Watson), a social worker from Nottingham who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals of recent times: the deportation of thousands of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and drew worldwide attention to an extraordinary...
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BRAND NEW from bestselling author Alex Brown
Mamma Mia meets Shirley Valentine in the brand-new holiday romance for 2024 from the International No.1 bestseller.
Gina Bennett has had enough after her husband of twenty-seven years lets her down one time too many. Deciding to choose herself, she embarks on a transformative solo journey to break free from the monotony of her life.
She escapes to the gorgeous Greek island of Kalosiros, where she holidayed...
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After finding out that her husband was cheating on her, Ava Starling packed her things and never looked back. She always planned on coming home to run her family's seafood restaurant, but she never expected that she'd be doing it alone. Ava was finally in a good place; healing, no longer angry, peaceful and content.At least that's what she told herself.Until a grumpy fisherman showed up out of nowhere like an unexpected storm.Tony Garcia had been...
49) Pure Sunshine
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A spellbinding trip of a novel about three friend breaking apart in their quest to stave off boredom and sameness.It's not about the drugs. It's not about the girls or the fights or the fading streetlights. It's about two nights that weren't going to be different from the rest, but then took a turn. It's about trying to find out who you are and who your real friends are. It's about everything being the same, the same, the same. It's about nothing...
50) Sean's Sunshine
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As a young detective, Sean Kryzynski expected violence on the job, not to get stabbed coming back from lunch. Add an angsty bedside breakup, and by the time he gets home from the hospital, he's over everything, including his irritating, hot-as-balls nurse, Billy No-Last-Name with the big, cynical brown eyes.
Billy's whole porn-model flophouse is experiencing a wave of altruism and adulting-people getting real jobs and going to shrinks and doing...
51) Hello Sunshine
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Fans who have enjoyed the lyrics and music on such albums as Cardinology, Easy Tiger, and Prisoner, or hit songs including "When the Stars Go Blue," know that Ryan Adams is a poet at heart. In this follow-up to his first collection of poems, Infinity Blues-praised by Stephen King-readers will discover new ideas, deeper insights, and graceful, sensual compositions that reveal another side of Ryan Adams.
52) Stolen Sunshine
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This story begins at the end of a young woman's life. Her murderer lifts her unconscious body from the bottom of an aluminum boat and carries her to the edge of Lake Pontchartrain. He lays her in the reeds, wipes tears from his eyes, sings her a lullaby, and slits both of her wrists. Across town, Officer Reese Hawking is on patrol, working crowd control in the New Orleans French Quarter where a woman has been found stabbed to death in an alley. Reese...
53) Under Sunshine
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GreatWave Yu was a chief of investigation department of discipline inspection and supervision of communist party of Talent City, Provincial Capital of Talent Sea Province. During his investigation of GoodVirtue Miu, the director of Central Hospital of the city, he found six millions yuan in coffin and twenty three millions in burial ground prepared by GoodVirtue Mu to his mother who was in very good healthy condition. In the process he found GoodVirtue...
54) Secret Sunshine
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Korean
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A powerful, Cannes award-winning drama about a mother whose life is forever changed by a shocking murder.
56) Sunshine
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Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The extraordinary -- and extraordinarily powerful -- follow-up to Hey, Kiddo. When Jarrett J. Krosoczka was in high school, he was part of a program that sent students to be counselors at a camp for seriously ill kids and their families. Going into it, Jarrett was worried: Wouldn't it be depressing, to be around kids facing such a serious struggle? Wouldn't it be grim? But instead of the shadow of death, Jarrett found something else at Camp Sunshine:...
57) Florida Sunshine
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Summer spends more time on the beach than she does anywhere else. That's where Dane first sees her-and she sees him, too.
She wonders who the insanely hot businessman is, but she never could have imagined that he'd end up being the developer who just bought the apartment she and her mom live in.
When she goes to his office to try to persuade him not to demolish the only home she's ever known, he hits her with a proposition.
One she's not sure she...
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Welcome to Sunshine Island - where the beaches are golden, the lifestyle perfect and anything is possible...
Jax Hudson doesn't mind the cold. He's still wearing shorts and walking barefoot on the beach. He's looking forward to spending the season with his girlfriend until she unexpectedly calls time on their relationship.
Alone and feeling very sorry for himself, Jax accepts an invitation to a Christmas Eve party and bumps into Phoebe Bishop who...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
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Undetermined
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RUSHING TO SUNSHINE is a personal essay film that looks at South Korea's uncomfortable but growing acceptance of North Korea over a two year period. Hoaas gains unprecedented access to former political prisoners, student dissidents and others affected by a Government caught between its new open door 'Sunshine Policy' and the remnants of a cold war anti-Communist mindset. The film is a combination of the essay genre and a filmmaker's journey of exploration...
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Juno Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Second grader Sylvie navigates the absurdities and emotional turbulence of her eccentric multigenerational Jewish matriarchy, a dad who lives far away and life gone virtual, seen through the lens of Sasha Levinson, her filmmaker, single mom. As Sylvie struggles through virtual school, expresses her strong wish for a baby sister or at least a dog, and interacts with a mom who never puts her camera down, Sasha finds new ways to connect with and raise...
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