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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection ofshort stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking five-season run, "Boardwalk Empire" is an Emmy-winning HBO drama series from Academy Award nominee/Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. Season 5 begins in 1931, a full six years after the end of Season 4. In stark contrast with the Roaring '20s, the country is in the throes of the Great Depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to...
103) Regrets only
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Paige Lancaster, single mom and prodigal daughter, has returned to the East Coast from her prestigious, well-paid job in LA, writing for the smartest detective series on television. Something terrible happened to her back in Hollywood. Okay, two terrible things, one featuring a misplaced tire iron -- and now she's broke and homeless and living with her widowed mother and eight year old daughter, Izzy, in her hometown of Piermont, Connecticut: land...
104) Jackass forever
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
After eleven years, the Jackass crew is back for their final adventure.
105) Leatherheads
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Dodge Connolly is a charming, brash football hero. He is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his team. Dodge hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Added to the team is Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. Carter has dashing good...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Atlantic City, February 1924: Picking up 8 months after the events of Season 3, Nucky Thompson is laying low at the end of the Boardwalk after barely surviving an overthrow by gangster Gyp Rosetti. But the calm will be short-lived, as Nucky faces new challenges, including a clash with a violent Harlem power broker, a battle with his brother Eli over Eli's college-age son, and the irresistible lure of lucrative- and perilous- opportunities in Florida....
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Nice place to visit: After being shot to death, Rocky encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip who gives him everything he wishes ... heaven! Right? Penny for your thoughts: The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read. Little girl lost: A six-yr.-old girl who can be clearly heard, but not seen, has vanished into a fourth dimension and is...
109) The shield: Season 3
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
Television series of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to keep both the streets safe and their self-interests intact. In this season, after scoring big with the money train, the Strike Team plays it cool to avoid arousing suspicion as Dutch and Claudette investigate the robbery and murder of two Armenian gangsters. Tensions are stretched even further...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Challenges the practices of the travel industry, sharing stories of memorable discoveries and misadventures that demonstrate how to enjoy a technology-balanced vacation.
Kugel takes the modern travel industry to task, determined to reignite humanity's age-old sense of adventure that has virtually been vanquished by spontaneity-obliterating websites. Sharing tales of his own perfectly imperfect adventures, Kugel explains how to make the most of new...
111) Elon Musk
Author
Description
"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The seventh and final season of this supernatural drama series from HBO. In the end, some of True Blood₂s most beloved figures will meet cruel fates, while others will cheat death (true and otherwise) to forge happily-ever-after relationships that will leave fans surprised and, ultimately, satisfied.
113) Fishing sim world
Publisher
Maximum Games
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Fishing Sim World is the most authentic fishing simulator ever made, taking you around the globe on an angling journey like no other. Feel the adrenaline rush of landing a trophy largemouth bass and the thrill of fighting huge carp and monster pike! Fishing Sim World perfectly combines realistic game physics and accurate fish AI for a completely true-to-life fishing experience that will have you hooked from the start. Travel over 65mph in your boat...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"A propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, taking once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence and holding them up to the light. Black markets have always thrived in the shadows of society. Increasingly, these enterprises--drug dealing, money laundering, human trafficking, terrorist funding--have found their shadows online. Digital crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of the internet have...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1992
Description
In Origins Reconsidered, Richard Leakey, one of the most respected and influential scientists of our time, takes us on a brilliant and provocative journey through human history. Beginning with his landmark discoveries at Lake Turkana, and including his fascinating reassessment of how we became "human"--And what, after all, being human really means - Leakey concludes with a glimpse of what our evolutionary future may hold. In 1984, Richard Leakey and...
116) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
"Following their father's shocking death, Hollywood animal wrangler OJ and his sister Emerald begin observing unexplained phenomena on their vast Southern California ranch that leads them down an obsessive rabbit hole as they plot attempts to capture the mystery on camera. Along with a former child star turned family them park ringmaster who neighbors the siblings, the pair's efforts to chase the spectacle soon bring terrifying consequences and unimaginable...
117) Marrow: a love story
Author
Publisher
Harper Wave
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant--one the donor and one the recipient--begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most of all, love. A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life,...
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Since the 1970s, understanding of the effects of trauma, including flashbacks and withdrawal, has become widespread in the United States. As a result Americans can now claim that the phrase posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is familiar even if the American Psychiatric Association's criteria for diagnosis are not. As embedded as these ideas now are in the American mindset, however, they are more widely applicable, this volume attempts to show, than...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
This season, Dr. Will Halstead finds his career at risk after his cover-up of a serious ethics violation; Dr. Daniel Charles continues to provide outstanding psychiatric insight; Sharon Goodwin deals with the fiscal scrutiny that comes with being the head of the city's largest hospital; Dr. Ethan Choi looks to recover after being shot by a former patient; Dr. Dean Archer steps up as interim chief of the ER; Charge nurse Maggie Lockwood juggles work...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's biography--the first in English in nearly two decades--is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the twentieth century, but a portrait of Lenin the man."--
"Victor Sebestyen's riveting biography of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin--the first major biography in English in nearly two decades--is...
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