Maeve Dermody
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Griff, a shy and awkward office worker by day, finds escape from his ordinary life by assuming the identity of a fantastic superhero each night. Griff's secret is jeopardized when he meets Melody, a cute but unconventional daydreamer. She quickly becomes fascinated by his idiosyncrasies, which are equal only to her own.
3) Black water
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Inspired by true events, three friends must fight for their lives against a man-eating crocodile when they become trapped in a remote Australian mangrove swamp.
4) 2:22
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New York City air traffic controller Dylan Branson is the embodiment of a guy at the top of his game, until one day at 2:22 pm, a blinding flash of light paralyzes him for a few crucial seconds as two passenger planes barely avoid a midair collision.
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Mary Lennox is a prickly and unloved ten-year-old girl, born in India to wealthy British parents. When they suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. There, she begins to uncover many family secrets, particularly after meeting her sickly cousin Colin, who has been shut away in a wing of the house. Together, these two damaged, slightly misfit children heal each other through their discovery of a wondrous secret garden.
7) Hilma
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Exploring Hilma af Klint's enigmatic life, now recognized as one of the Western world's first abstract artists. She defied convention to live a free life as an artist in a time when women could not even vote.
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It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer and start to turn on each other.
10) Black Water
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While on vacation on Northern Australia, Gracie, her husband Adam and her younger sister Lee decide to take the Blackwater Barry tour in the swamp for fishing. Their guide Jim uses a small motor boat and takes the tourist along the river to a remote spot. When they stop, they are attacked by a huge crocodile that capsizes their boat and immediately kills Jim. The three survivors climb a tree and when they realize that help would never come to rescue...
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Serangoon Road volume 3
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Patricia is attacked during a riot but is saved by a Malay journalist later accused of being one of the riot instigators.
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Serangoon Road volume 10
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Sam is able to prove that James Lim was responsible for the murder of Patricia's husband, Winston.
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Serangoon Road volume 1
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The Cheng Detective Agency is hired by the CIA to investigate the murder of an American sailor.
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Serangoon Road volume 4
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Sam has a conflict of interest when the agency is hired to investigate Claire's husband.
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Serangoon Road volume 9
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A WW2 veteran, who befriended Sam in Changi, is accused of murder.
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Serangoon Road volume 2
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Separated at the outset of WW2, a woman returns from a long exile in China to search for her husband.
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Serangoon Road volume 7
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Kang is caught smuggling explosives and Sam works to save him from trial...and possible execution.
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Serangoon Road volume 5
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At Claire's insistence, Sam investigates how adulterated medicine is being distributed to sick children.
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Serangoon Road volume 6
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When a newborn baby is left on the doorstep of the agency, Sam and Patricia face a dilemma after uncovering the identity of the mother and her family.
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Serangoon Road volume 8
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Two Australian girls mysteriously disappear from a ship in Singapore Harbour. The case takes an ominous dangerous turn with the arrival of a ransom note.