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The Railway Children

★★★☆☆
Three children, uprooted from London to the countryside, become fascinated with trains

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The Mating Season

★★★★★
A delightful romp with Bertie trying to mend several rocky relationships around him, while frequently getting into sticky situations, requiring extrication... by Jeeves.

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The Fellowship of the Ring

★★★★★
Frodo Baggins inherits a ring which must be destroyed; the motley crew which accompanies him on his perilous task is the "fellowship"

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Five Little Pigs

★★★★☆
Poirot investigates a cold case

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The Last Unicorn

★★☆☆☆
When a unicorn learns that she is the last of her kind, she sets out on an epic journey to find out what happened to all the other unicorns

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Joy in the Morning

★★★★★
Bertie's hijinks and Jeeves' convoluted schemes sees his uncle riding a bicycle dressed as Sindbad the Sailor... but that's just a part of the story

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Kindred

★★★★★
Dana, a young black woman in 1976 California, is repeatedly transported back in time to an early 19th century slave plantation in Maryland

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The Code of the Woosters

★★★★★
Bertie has been charged by his favourite aunt Dahlia to steal a valuable silver cow creamer from the residence of Sir Watkyn Bassett, while Bertie is working to ensure that he doesn't get married to Sir Watkyn's daughter Madeline.

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The Inheritors

★★★★☆
In a pre-historic world, a simple, close-knit Neandertal family has to contend with the "new people", a group of early modern humans with a very different culture, abilities and weaponry

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

★★★★★
Young Dorothy Gale is swept by a tornado from Kansas to a magical land with wizards, witches and several marvelous creatures, but all she wants is to get back to Kansas...

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Howl's Moving Castle

★★★★☆
Sophie Hatter has been cursed to be an old woman, and seeks out the fearsome wizard Howl to help her undo the curse.

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Heart of Darkness

★★★★☆
Deep in the African jungle, Kurtz ran a business procuring ivory and is treated like a god by the natives. But lately, something entirely more sinister is afoot... Kurtz has gone insane.

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Catch-22

★★★★☆
If you want to fly more missions, you're insane, making you eligible to be grounded. But if you want to be grounded, it means you're sane enough to keep flying.

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Train to Pakistan

★★★★☆
Mano Majra, a sleepy village is caught in the crossfire as it sits right on the fault line where a great nation is being divided in two.

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The A.B.C. Murders

★★★★★
Poirot tracks a serial killer with a peculiar modus operandi... he murders people in alphabetical order.

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Right Ho, Jeeves

★★★★★
Wooster is at Brinkley Court, trying to get Gussie Fink-Nottle away from newts long enough to get him hitched, while also trying to mend his cousin Angela's love life and saving his Aunt Dahlia's cook Anatole.

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