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Marcus plays tenor sax at The Velvet Room, the kind of club where the real business happens after the set ends. When the club's owner is found dead and the police show little interest in solving it, Marcus starts asking questions — and discovers The Velvet Room is a front for a network that's been operating since Prohibition. Now the people who run the network want Marcus to play a very different kind of gig, and saying no isn't one of the options.

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Every scroll, click, and pause feeds an algorithm that knows what you'll want before you do. Trace the journey of a single recommendation — from the moment a user opens an app to the chain of automated decisions that shape what they see, buy, and believe. Featuring interviews with engineers who built these systems and now question what they've created.

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Nine-year-old Hana folds paper planes and launches them from her apartment balcony, each one carrying a wish. When one of them comes back with a reply written in a handwriting she doesn't recognize, she follows the trail to the rooftop of a neighboring building — and meets an elderly man who once dreamed of building real aircraft. Together, they attempt to build something that actually flies.

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Ray pours drinks and minds his own business — until the night two men in the corner booth lay out a plan to kill the city's most powerful judge. Now Ray has a choice: walk away and forget what he heard, or do something about it. The problem is, the judge isn't exactly innocent either. Set across a single evening in a downtown bar, this tight noir piece unfolds almost entirely through dialogue, building toward a final act that reframes everything.

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The Ember Throne has sat empty since the night the five kingdoms burned. Now a blacksmith's apprentice named Kael discovers he can ignite the ancient forge-marks that once chose rulers — marks that haven't glowed in a generation. Hunted by the warlords who divided the kingdoms among themselves, Kael must cross enemy territory with a disgraced knight and a war orphan who knows more than she lets on. The throne doesn't just need a ruler. It needs someone willing to burn.

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After finding an unsent letter tucked inside a secondhand book in a Lisbon bookshop, Sofia begins writing back to the address on the envelope — and someone answers. What starts as curiosity becomes an intimate correspondence with a stranger named Elias, who is dealing with his own crossroads in Montreal. As their letters grow more honest, both must decide if what they've built on paper is worth risking in person.

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Captain Adaora Obi commands the fastest ship in the Atlantic — and the only crew that answers to no flag. When a rival captain captures her navigator and demands an impossible ransom, Adaora must forge an alliance with the very navy that's been hunting her. The cost of the deal: lead them to the hidden port where every pirate in the Caribbean shelters. Loyalty, survival, and the open sea collide in a story about the price of freedom.

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Three siblings return to their childhood town to settle their grandmother's estate, only to find the locals won't go near Hollow Hill after dark. When they discover a sealed chamber beneath the old church — and the journal their grandmother kept hidden for decades — they realize she wasn't the quiet woman they remember. Something was buried under that hill for a reason, and the ground has started to shift.

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When mid-level accountant Dave Kowalski accidentally gets selected for humanity's first interstellar mission instead of his astronaut namesake, NASA decides it's cheaper to train him than admit the error. What follows is a fish-out-of-water comedy where corporate jargon meets zero gravity, and Dave discovers that managing a spaceship crew isn't so different from surviving an open-plan office.

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Miles below the canopy where sunlight never reaches, an ecosystem thrives that science barely understands. Follow a research team's descent through the vertical layers of the Amazon — from the emergent giants down to the root networks that communicate across miles. Each layer reveals a world more alien than the last, building toward a revelation about the forest itself.

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Detective Mara Voss has 48 hours before mandatory retirement wipes her augmented memory clean. When a body turns up in the neon district with her badge number carved into its chest, she's pulled into a case that connects to the one she could never solve — the disappearance of her former partner. Every lead takes her deeper into the city's underworld, where the people she trusted most have the most to hide.

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When Earth's last deep-space relay picks up a response to a message sent decades ago, a skeleton crew aboard the dying station must decide whether to answer — knowing the signal's origin doesn't match any known civilization. As the crew fractures over what to do, the transmission begins changing, adapting to their conversations, and the line between first contact and something far darker starts to blur.

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