Loretta Devine
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When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that Loretta, the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery, is retiring & has started a contest to give the bakery to whomever can recreate her famous 12 Days of Christmas recipes. Holly enters, as does a local baker named Brad and the 2 adversaries end up cooking up something special together for the holidays.
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When two girls are kidnapped by their father and sold into slavery to settle a drug debt, their grandmother will stop at nothing to get them back. Enlisting her well-known philanthropist son and former Special Forces grandson, the trio form an unlikely gang determined to free their family from bondage. Inspired by real events, Caged No More shows the quiet underbelly of American sex trade that is silently poisoning families in our own backyard.
4) No Regrets
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Flight attendant Nina Thomas (Monica Calhoun) has spent 12 years dating her college sweetheart. After rejecting his many marriage proposals, she finally decided to say yes. But after meeting a handsome divorcee (Brian White) during a long layover in Los Angeles, Nina finds herself in a compromising position she never expected and that may change her life forever.
6) Freedom Song
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Danny Glover and writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams) reveal the impact of the 1960s civil rights movement on a small Southern town in the compelling drama Freedom Song.In the fictional town of Quinlan, Mississippi, the arrival of a civil rights group leader inspires a young African-American teenager, Owen Walker (Vicellous Reon Shannon), to join the crusade to desegregate his hometown. Leading sit-ins and helping black people register...
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Nicole seems to have it all – a great job, an adoring husband – but her perfect world is shattered when her childhood friend is suddenly found dead. The tragedy reunites Nicole with her best friends from years ago, but they each soon find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them and this deadly nightmare is just beginning for the girls...
8) Hoodlum
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"Hoodlum" recounts the uneasy alliance between the Italian and Jewish mafias who banded together to declare war on the black gangsters of New York's Harlem in the 1920s. Focusing on the relationship between the three rival leaders, "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia), "Hoodlum" co-stars Vanessa Williams, Cicely Tyson, Queen Latifah, Richard Bradford and William Atherton and is a compelling...
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Different World volume 16
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Dwayne and Ron pledge the same fraternity, and Dwayne notices that his 'Big Brother' has a crush on Whitley.
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Different World volume 19
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Whitley is unable to cover the damages when she accidentally hits Mr. Gaines' car in the parking lot and goes to work for him to make up the difference.
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Different World volume 17
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Jaleesa breaks a Saturday date with Walter to see her ex-husband, Lamare, who is coming to the campus that weekend.
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Different World volume 18
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Kim is overstressed and suffering from crippling nightmares.
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Different World volume 7
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Whitley takes her role as step team choreographer too seriously. Dwayne is roped into tutoring the football team's star running back.
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Different World volume 5
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Gladys Knight arrives at Hillman looking for new Pips to add to her line-up. Whitley and Jaleesa audition and are surprised to find they harmonize together.
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Different World volume 9
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Robert and Kim fall for each other, nudging Whitley out of her dorm room and into Robert's, with Dwayne and Randall.
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Different World volume 1
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Dwayne must come to terms with the one calculus professor he's been trying to avoid at all costs: the infamous Dr. War! Meanwhile, Jaleesa's roommate Freddie crushes on Dwayne and Whitley clashes with her new roommate Kim.
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Different World volume 12
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Dwayne decides to throw a party to honor the closing of Ray Nay's BBQ.
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Different World volume 6
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Whitley and Kim are left behind at the dorms for the Thanksgiving holiday and decide to spend the evening clubbing.
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Different World volume 11
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Kim believes she's pregnant with Robert's child.
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Different World volume 22
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Just when Dwayne and Ron think they've found a great luxury apartment for next semester, Ron's father cuts him off, forcing him and Dwayne to move into a more "affordable" place.