Liz Smith
2) I am Gen Z
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"Investigated through expert interviews and the web lens of Generation Z, this documentary explores how the explosion of the digital revolution is impacting our society, brains, and mental health. The forces driving the digital revolution are working against humanity and have put us on a dangerous trajectory. With self-deprecating humor, Gen Z talks to us in their language, through TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. Their battles with mental health are...
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Follows the relationship of two contrasting communities: Lark Rise, a small hamlet gently holding onto the past, and Candleford, a neighboring market town bustling into the future. When young Laura Timmins leaves Lark Rise for a job at the Candleford post office, she discovers an eye-opening, exciting new world. In the face of scandals and feuds, she must leave her childhood behind.
5) Keeping mum
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An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
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J. Paul Getty (1892-1976) was a shrewd industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, ultimately becoming a dominant player in the oil industry. In The Great Getty, Robert Lenzner presents an in-depth biography of the savviest entrepreneur of the 20th century and the world's richest private citizen at the time of his death- worth $6 billion, the equivalent of more than $27 billion in today' s money. As Lenzner chronicles Getty's life- through...