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10381) Escape velocity
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xiii, 415 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Georgia Griffin has just arrived in Silicon Valley from Piney, Arkansas, on very bald tires, having firmly rejected her beloved father's life as a con artist. Her father is in jail and a certain minister is hugging her mother for Jesus while eyeing Georgia's little sister, Katie-Ann. Georgia desperately needs to keep her new job as a paralegal for Lumina Software so she can provide a California haven for her sister before it's too late. While she's...
10382) The enemy above
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
10383) Nicolas Cage collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (268 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Description for 211: Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history. Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist in progress by a fearless team of highly trained and heavily armed men.
Description for Mon and Dad: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which...
10384) The poison bed
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder--but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime?" --amazon.com.
Autumn, 1615. Scandal rocks the Jacobean court when Robert and Frances Carr are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances-- young, captivating, and from a notorious family-- was rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a...
Author
Series
Burning glass volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Civil war is on the horizon, and Sonya is helpless to stop it. With her empathic powers gone, she can no longer protect her beloved Anton from his vindictive brother Valko, who will stop at nothing to get his revenge and reclaim his throne. Even if that means using an Auraseer to hunt--and kill--both Sonya and Anton. Then Sonya hears about an empath in a far-off kingdom who may be able to heal her--but without her powers, finding the legendary Auraseer...
10386) The spy
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Norwegian
Description
Based on a true story, it centers around Sonja Wigert, Scandinavia's most acclaimed and popular female movie star, who lives in Stockholm when World War II breaks out. Top Nazi officials want Sonja to help power their propaganda machine through the movies she stars in. When her father is imprisoned by the Nazis, Sonja enlists as a spy for the Swedish secret service before meeting the Nazis in Oslo to flirt her father out of prison. In the process...
10387) Snowden
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (2 hr., 15 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The incredible untold story of Edward Snowden, the polarizing figure who exposed shocking illegal surveillance activities by the NSA and became one of the most wanted men in the world. He is considered a hero by some, and a traitor by others.
10388) I see you
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"FBI special agent Zoe Spencer uses skeletal remains to recreate the faces of murder victims through sculpture. Though highly scientific, the process is also sensitive and intimate; she becomes attached to the individuals she identifies, desperate to find justice for each. As Zoe examines old remains, she sees a teenage girl looking back at her--the victim in a cold case from over a decade ago. Zoe wants nothing more than to tell this young woman's...
10389) Little boy lost
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body--and the bodies of twelve other African...
10390) Vicarious
Author
Series
Vicarious duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Winter Kim and her sister, Rose, survived growing up in a Korean orphanage and being trafficked into the United States. But they've escaped the past and started over in a Saint Louis, where no one knows who they used to be. Now they work as digital stunt girls for Rose's ex-boyfriend, Gideon, engaging in dangerous and enticing activities while recording their neural impulses for his Vicarious Sensory Experiences, or ViSEs. Whether it's bungee jumping,...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (approximately 1,286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Blacklist: While the Task Force reels from Liz's resurrection and Red deals with the betrayal of those closest to him, Liz is targeted by a man claiming to be her father.
Blacklist redemption: The world's most elusive criminals from Red's infamous list come together to form an elite mercenary team, seeking redemption for their past transgressions.
10392) The takeover
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A plot by Wall Street financiers to topple a liberal U.S. president by creating a crisis on world markets. The operation, which requires several murders, including that of the Federal Reserve chairman, is prompted by the president's proposal for a 90 per cent inheritance tax which the rich oppose.
Author
Series
Monster High diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
120 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
10394) Attack of the 50 foot woman
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (66 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Nancy Archer is a wealthy woman who is fresh from the loony bin and ticked off. Her husband has been putting the moves on Honey Parker and scheming about the day when Nancy's fortune will be theirs. That day will never come, especially not since Nancy has an alien encounter that zaps her metabolism into overdrive. Soon, Nancy's size matches her rage."
10395) Throwaway girls
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When her best friend Madison mysteriously disappears, Caroline feels compelled to get involved in the investigation. She has her own reasons not to trust the police, and she owes Madison-- big time. Suddenly Caroline realizes how little she knew of what her friend was up to. Caroline has some uncomfortable secrets about the hours before Madison disappeared, but they're nothing compared to the secrets Madison has been hiding. Why do all paths seem...
10396) The perfect storm
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...
10397) The hurt locker
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
US Army Staff Sergeant Will James, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn and Specialist Owen Eldridge comprise the Bravo Company's bomb disposal unit stationed in Baghdad. James is the tech team leader. When he arrives on the scene, Bravo Company has thirty-nine days left on its current deployment, and it will be a long thirty-nine days for Sanborn and Eldridge whose styles do not mesh with their new leader. James' thrill of the dismantlement seems to be the ultimate...
10398) Murder, she wrote. Season 3
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
6 DVD-video (1,078 min.) : sound, colour. ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Widowed, retired English teacher Jessica Fletcher is suddenly propelled into the spotlight when her nephew sends the mystery novel she has written to a publisher. Fast becoming a Number 1 best-seller, she finds her quiet life interrupted by public appearances, society parties and real-life murder. Jessica soon realises she has a knack for solving murders on and off the page. Angela Lansbury stars in the role that earned her 12 consecutive Emmy nominations...
10399) Murder, she wrote. Season 2
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
6 DVD-video (1,059 min.) : sound, colour. ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Emmy Award nominee Angela Lansbury is back on the case in all 22 episodes of the critically acclaimed series, Murder, She Wrote Season Two. Rejoin Jessica Fletcher, everyone's favorite mystery writer, back in Cabot Cove, where she pens her whodunit books and keeps finding that her life is imitating her art. Teamed with some of the biggest guest stars on television, including Jerry Orbach, Adrienne Barbeau, Dick Van Patten and Carol Lawrence, Jessica...
10400) Death defying acts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his...
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