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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"Other People's money" is a novel exploring the morality of speculative investing. M. Vincent Favoral is the model businessman, the Chief Cashier of the respected Mutual Credit Society. A dinner with friends at home one evening is rudely interrupted when he receives a visit from his boss, the Director of the Society, Baron de Thaller. In the ensuing argument between the two, it emerges that M. Favoral has lost a considerable amount of money through...
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English
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In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker—controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils—introduced her now-famous concept of the “Banality of Evil.” Using footage from the...
4) In the Fog
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
The members of an exclusive London club endeavor to solve a baffling murder in this masterpiece from the golden age of detective fiction Since the time of Shakespeare, there has been no group in London more influential than the Grill Club. A secret society whose members are drawn from the rich and the poor, the Grill is blind to politics, ideology, and wealth. The only demands made of its members are secrecy and an open mind. On a foggy night in...
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Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
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Sophisticated mayhem from a master of crime fiction Since his friend and partner in crime, A. J. Raffles, jumped into the Mediterranean, Bunny Manders has scraped along as best he can. At Raffles's side, he was witness to, and participant in, the most ingenious burglaries the underworld had ever seen. Without him, Bunny is a struggling ex-convict, so down on his luck that he answers an ad seeking a male nurse and companion for a notoriously rude invalid....
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Series
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DC Comics
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English
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As evil spreads across Gotham City, Batman's allies, including Red Robin, Batwing, and Robin find themselves in a battle coming from all sides. The Court of Owls has shown its hand, and it's up to the collective effort of these heroes to stop it in this sprawling tale of corruption and violence.
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Language
English
Description
Providing insight into Venetian society through the lens of a gripping intellectual mystery, this atmospheric tale from Leon (Uniform Justice, etc.) finds Inspector Guido Brunetti investigating an aristocratic family with a shady past. When a rural landowner discovers the body of Roberto Lorenzoni, who was kidnapped two years earlier, Brunetti immediately suspects the victim's family. The Lorenzoni clan bears the legacy of betraying the Jews of Venice...
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Distributed by Genius Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen Edition
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English
Description
Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate he couldn't have imagined.
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
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English
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The village of South Mardian likes the old ways. The very old ways. This may be 1957, but South Mardian still features a blacksmith, a village idiot, and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. There's squabbling, of course, and worse-like when one of the ritual's main players is found beheaded, everything north of his neck having been neatly lopped off by a ritual sword. Inspector Alleyn does have to contain a certain incredulous...
11) The Keeper
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Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Language
English
Description
A young Black girl finds herself trapped between desperation and her family's dark history in this horror graphic novel
Aisha has suffered a devastating loss. Her parents were killed in a car crash, and now she must move to decrepit and derelict Detroit to live with her ailing grandmother. However, shortly after moving in, Aisha's grandmother's health rapidly deteriorates. With her dying breath, she summons the dark spirit that has protected their...
12) Hunting Game
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The first installment in Helene Tursten's brand new series featuring the strong, smart Detective Inspector Embla Nystrom. From a young age, 28-year-old Embla Nystrom has been plagued by chronic nightmares and racing thoughts. Though she still develops unhealthy fixations and makes rash decisions from time to time, she has learned to channel most of her anxious energy into her position as Detective Inspector in the mobile unit in Gothenburg, Sweden,...
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Publisher
Tenacity Media Books
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1966, Eduardo Tirella, close confidant of billionaire Doris Duke, informed the possessive and vindictive heiress that he was leaving her employ as chief designer and art curator to return to Hollywood where his career as a set designer was just catching fire. Minutes later, she crushed him to death under the wheels of a two-ton station wagon as they were leaving Rough Point, her Bellevue Avenue estate in Newport, RI, the storied resort....
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
La historia comienza en Culiacán, Sinaloa cuando Teresa recibe una llamada. Le dicen que su novio, el "Güero" Dávila, ha muerto, por lo que decide huir. Pide ayuda a Epifanio Vargas, padrino de Dávila, quien la envía a Melilla, España para crear una vida nueva. Ahí trabaja en un bar y conoce a un hombre con el cual se relaciona íntimamente, Santiago López Fisterra. Él es un contrabandista de tabaco y hachís entre Marruecos y España, por...
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GVN Releasing
Edition
[DVD version]
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English
Description
The film is the shocking true story of the investigation and trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his 30 year killing spree and the political and media establishment that tried to cover it up. Originally investigated for illegal prescription drug sales, a raid by DEA, FBI and local law enforcement revealed crimes they could not have expected within the clinic.
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Series
Tokyo revengers omnibus edition volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Watching the news, Hanagaki Takemichi learns his junior-high girlfriend Tachibana Hinata has died. A sudden shove sends him 12 years into the past to face the Tokyo Manji Gang that once made his life hell, which is also responsible for Hinata's death in the present. To save Hinata and change the future, Takemichi must rise to the top of Kanto's most sinister delinquent gang! But things aren't so simple when he befriends the gang's leader, Mikey....
17) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
"La historia comienza en Culiacán, Sinaloa cuando Teresa recibe una llamada. Le dicen que su novio, el "Güero" Dávila, ha muerto, por lo que decide huir. Pide ayuda a Epifanio Vargas, padrino de Dávila, quien la envía a Melilla, España para crear una vida nueva. Ahí trabaja en un bar y conoce a un hombre con el cual se relaciona íntimamente, Santiago López Fisterra. Él es un contrabandista de tabaco y hachís entre Marruecos y España, por...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
La historia comienza en Culiacán, Sinaloa cuando Teresa recibe una llamada. Le dicen que su novio, el "Güero" Dávila, ha muerto, por lo que decide huir. Pide ayuda a Epifanio Vargas, padrino de Dávila, quien la envía a Melilla, España para crear una vida nueva. Ahí trabaja en un bar y conoce a un hombre con el cual se relaciona íntimamente, Santiago López Fisterra. Él es un contrabandista de tabaco y hachís entre Marruecos y España, por...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
La historia comienza en Culiacán, Sinaloa cuando Teresa recibe una llamada. Le dicen que su novio, el "Güero" Dávila, ha muerto, por lo que decide huir. Pide ayuda a Epifanio Vargas, padrino de Dávila, quien la envía a Melilla, España para crear una vida nueva. Ahí trabaja en un bar y conoce a un hombre con el cual se relaciona íntimamente, Santiago López Fisterra. Él es un contrabandista de tabaco y hachís entre Marruecos y España, por...
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