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"On one rainy afternoon, on a crowded New York City street corner, eleven-year-old Maurice met Laura. Maurice asked Laura for spare change because he was hungry, and something made Laura stop and ask Maurice if she could take him to lunch."--Amazon.com.
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©2007
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New Yorkers Felix Unger and Oscar Madison try to live together as roommates despite the fact that one is a neat freak and the other is a total slob. In this season, Felix announces to Oscar his plans to win back Gloria, but Oscar is more concerned about getting rid of his own ex-wife.
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2021.
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"The Barbizon tells the story of New York's most glamorous women-only hotel, and the women -- both famous and ordinary -- who passed through its doors. World War I had liberated women from home and hearth, setting them on the path to political enfranchisement and gainful employment. Arriving in New York to work in the dazzling new skyscrapers, they did not want to stay in uncomfortable boarding houses; they wanted what men already had -- exclusive...
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[2008]
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Divorced New Yorkers Felix and Oscar live together despite their opposing personalities. As Oscar works hard to keep roommate Felix out of his life, Felix works even harder to involve Oscar in his. This season, Felix ropes Oscar into dancing in a ballet, appearing in an opera, and even starring in a movie. Also, numerous flashbacks give us a peek into their early lives, including Oscar as a young slob.
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[2018]
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Ten years after serving time at Rikers Island for assault, Joe King Oliver, an ex-NYPD investigator working as a private detective, receives a note from a woman who admits she was paid to frame him, compelling him to find out who on the police force wanted him out. He also agrees to help a radical black journalist accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic in drugs and prostitutes in the city's poorest...
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"A murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias' glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall. Born in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she's not proud of to survive. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a...
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[2021]
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"In the final months of World War II, San Francisco newspaper secretary Ellie Morgan should be planning her wedding and subsequent exit from the newsroom into domestic life. Instead, Ellie, who harbors dreams of having her own column, is using all the skills she's learned as a would-be reporter to try to uncover any scrap of evidence that her missing pilot father is still alive. But when she discovers a stack of love letters from a woman who is not...
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[2022]
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"The fascinating, mouthwatering story (with recipes!) of the immigrant family that created a New York gastronomic legend: "The most rambunctious and chaotic of all delicatessens, with one foot in the Old World and the other in the vanguard of every fast-breaking food move in the city." -Nora Ephron When Louis and Lilly Zabar rented a counter in a dairy store on 80th Street and Broadway in 1934 to sell smoked fish, they could not have imagined that...
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