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441) No Colder Place
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
PIs Bill Smith and Lydia Chin go undercover to investigate suspicious deaths on a construction site in New York City, including those of a crane operator and a cement mixer. Smith is posing as a mason, Lydia as a secretary in the trailer
442) Monsters of man
Publisher
High Octane Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A Robotics company teams up with a corrupt CIA agent trying to position themselves to win a lucrative military contract. They illegally airdrop 4 prototype robots into the middle of the infamous Golden triangle between Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand to perform a live field test on unsuspecting drug lords that the world will never miss. One of the Robots is damaged in the AIR drop, the robot technical team loses control of it as it becomes self-aware,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his employer and the Egyptian authorities quickly declare his death a suicide. But the dead man’s sister, Cate, doesn’t believe Eric took his own life and is determined to get to the truth. Traveling to Egypt she begins to piece together her brother’s life in Cairo with the help of a handsome, young, gay...
444) Philomena
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Judi Dench stars in the story of Philomena Lee, mother to a boy conceived out of wedlock and given up for adoption. Nearly 50 years later, Philomena meets Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan), a former BBC reporter looking for his next big story. Together, they embark on a journey to locate her long lost son. As the pieces of the puzzle come together, the unlikely travel companions form a comic and heartwarming friendship. Based on the 2009 investigative...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who once seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and his PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in Arizona. Volkman was the central figure in a massive "pill mill" scheme in southern Ohio. His pain...
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Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one called her Mud in Silicon Valley. There, she was Mae, a high-powered professional who had left her Kiowa roots behind a decade ago. But a cryptic voice message from her grandfather, James Sawpole, telling her to come home sounds so wrong that she catches the next plane to Oklahoma. She never expected to be plunged into a web of theft, betrayal, and murder. Mud discovers a tribe in disarray. Fracking is damaging their ancestral lands, Kiowa...
447) Hearts of steel
Author
Series
Blackstone legacy volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When successful businesswoman Maggie Molinaro offends a corrupt banker, she unwittingly sets off a series of calamities that threaten to destroy her life's work. She teams up with charismatic steel magnate Liam Blackstone, but what begins as a practical alliance soon evolves into a romance between two wounded people determined to beat the odds"--
Author
Publisher
Eclipse Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In The First Kentucky Derby, racing historian Mark Shrager examines the events leading up to the first "Run for the Roses," the unsuccessful plot hatched by the winning horse's owner to fix the race, and the prominent role played by African-Americans in Gilded Age racing culture-a holdover from pre-emancipation days, when slaves would be trained from birth to ride for their wealthy owners, and would grow up surrounded by the horses that would be...
450) 8 movie action pack
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Language
English
Description
Trancers I: Angel City, 2245. Trooper Jack Deth is battling the last disciples of Whistler, who used his powers to entrance and control his army. When Deth discovers Whistler has time traveled to 1985 and is killing the ancestors of his enemies, he launches a deadly mission to stop a notorious murderer.
Equilibrium: Mankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion, and to uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all...
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
The Retirement Gamble reveals how fees, self-dealing, and kickbacks bring great profits to Wall Street while imperiling the prospects of a secure future for individuals. The film questions who has the consumer's best interests in mind, and whether there is a better way to manage our retirements.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Mina has become the hero of her own story. Literally. When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did not expect to nearly be fried by a superhero who turned out to be a supervillain, come face to face with Jin, the handsome boy of her dreams, or discover a conspiracy involving an evil corporation she made up. And it's all happening in her fictional webcomic world. Mina is trapped in the story she created. Now it's up to her to save...
455) The good cop
Author
Series
Willi Geismeier novels volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Munich, 1920. Detective Willi Geismeier has a problem: how do you uphold the law when the law goes bad? The First World War has been lost and Germany is in turmoil. The new government in Berlin is weak. The police and courts are corrupt. Fascists and Communists are fighting in the streets. People want a savior, someone who can make Germany great again. To many, Adolf Hitler seems perfect for the job.
When the offices of a Munich newspaper are bombed,...
456) The rum diary
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice to use his words for the corrupt businessman's financial...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1946, Günther Quandt—patriarch of Germany’s most iconic industrial empire, a dynasty that today controls BMW—was arrested for suspected Nazi collaboration. Quandt claimed that he had been forced to join the party by his archrival, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and the courts acquitted him. But Quandt lied. And his heirs, and those of other Nazi billionaires, have only grown wealthier in the generations since, while their reckoning...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands."--Provided by publisher
"It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state...