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Fake Swears

Filthy Expletives that are 102% Clean
2015
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Gulliver's travels

The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high, a land of giants, an island of sorcerers, and a land where horses are masters of human-like creatures.
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

the authorized adaptation
A graphic novel adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" about Guy Montag, a career fireman, who realizes the evils of government-controlled thoughts and sets about to change society.

Crazy rich Asians

New Yorker Rachel Chu is amazed when she goes to Singapore with her boyfriend, Nick, and learns his family owns a palace and Nick is more used to private planes than cars. As one of the most eligible bachelors in Asia, Nick is in high demand, and his mother doesn't think Rachel is quite worthy of him.
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The nanny diaries

2002
In order to pay her way through NYU, Nanny takes a job caring for the only son of a wealthy family, where she soon realizes her real job responsibility is making sure the Park Avenue wife who doesn't work, cook, clean, or raise her own child has a smooth day.
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The loved ones

an Anglo-American tragedy
1948
Mr. Joyboy, the embalmer at a full-service funeral home for Hollywood's departed greats, and Aimee Thanatogenos, the crematorium cosmetician, find their romance complicated with the appearance of a young English poet.

America's report card

a novel
2006
As the 2004 presidential election approaches, the paths of teenager Jainey O'Sullivan and graduate student Charlie Wolf make an unlikely crossing when Charlie scores Jainey's standardized test essay.

Animal farm

2008
Presents an unabridged reading of George Orwell's political satire in which the animals take over running the farm, but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Animal farm

1999
A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship.

Welcome to Braggsville

When four UC Berkeley students put on a dramatic protest at an annual reenactment of a Civil War battle, they set off a chain of events that revel deep divides of class, race, and politics within their community.

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