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Series
Regency vows volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention-and maybe just win each other back in the process. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since. Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached...
Publisher
Monterey Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c1984
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As Myra Harper dances and romances one young man after another under New York's Biltmore clock, she is transformed from a fresh teenager into a jaded 21-year-old. When she becomes engaged to wealthy Knowleton Whitney, she encounters a bizarre plot to discourage her from fortune hunting.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 368 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Two brothers--Will and Jeff--and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
5) Closer
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt and anger.
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Description
"What's the harm in a pseudonym? Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says she is, she didn't write the book she claims she wrote, and she is most certainly not Asian American--in this chilling and hilariously cutting novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author R. F. Kuang in the vein of White Ivy and The Other Black Girl. Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut...
7) Tangerine
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"A stunning debut novel--a chilling and unexpected portrait of a female friendship set in 1950's Morocco. This is Patricia Highsmith for the 21st century" --
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
489 pages : illustrations, maps on endpapers ; 22 cm
Description
"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love."
Author
Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 8
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
When Flynn Brogan, the man she fell in love with when she was staying in the Caribbean, shows up in Eternity Springs, Gabriella Romano, who believes that he betrayed her, is reluctant to give him the second chance he asks for.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public...
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
"The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross system. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross's nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a...
13) The face thief
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Formats
Description
Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
viii, 351 pages ; 21cm
Description
"Cecilia Wilborg has it all. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters and a home in an idyllic Norwegian suburb. When the receptionist at her daughter's swim club asks her to drop off a small boy who hasn't been picked up yet, she knows it is her duty to help. When Cecilia arrives at the address she was given, the house is empty. The boy begs her to take him home with her just for the night. Cecilia reluctantly agrees but she could never guess that...
15) Cactus flower
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A middle-aged bachelor dentist gets involved with a kooky mistress, refusing to admit his real love for his prim and proper receptionist.
16) V for vendetta
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, the story of a young working-class woman, Evey, who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as 'V.' Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, 'V' ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about 'V's' mysterious background, she also discovers...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
553 pages.
Description
When Michael Frazier's ex-wife, Erica, shows up on his doorstep pleading for help, she drops a bombshell that threatens to rip his family apart: Erica's nine-year-old daughter is missing, and Michael is the father. But finding Felicity comes at a price, the closer Michael gets to the truth, the further into jeopardy his marriage falls and the faster his family begins to unravel.
18) Liar, liar
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Description
When it appears that someone has faked her absentee mother's suicide, Remmi teams up with Detective Dani Settler and her childhood crush, Noah, to find the truth about what happened.
19) The choice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"A captivating, ingenious novel by the author of The Good Sister about a woman faced with an impossible choice after attacking an unknown assailant, urging readers to ask themselves: What would you do?"--
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The author of Killer Choice, a thriller "full of shocks and twists you won't see coming" (Lee Child), delivers a nail-biting novel about a hit and run, and a lie that goes horribly wrong... Her son accidentally killed a man. They cover it up. Nothing goes according to plan. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Jackson is the son of divorced parents. His life in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is nothing out of the ordinary. Until the night that he accidentally kills someone...
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