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2) The guest
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Description
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.
3) Blue
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is left devastated by the unexpected death of her husband and child. She retreats from the world around her, but is soon reluctantly drawn into an ever-widening web of lies and passion as the dark, secret life of her husband begins to unravel.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1070
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
With a powerhouse ensemble cast, writer-director Mike Leigh's Palme d'Or winning film is a tour de force of sustained tension and catharsis that lays bare the emotional fault lines running beneath the surface of everyday lives.
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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Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their small and peaceful hometown. But when his namesake niece, "Young Charlie" suspects that he may in fact be the psychopathic Merry Widow killer, Uncle Charlie must plot the death of his favorite relation in order to remain one step ahead of the law in this murderous game of cat-and-mouse.
Author
Appears on list
Description
She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. He's got her heart. Jack Stapleton's a household name--captured by paparazzi on beaches the world...
9) Paranoia
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Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low-level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job. When he manipulates the system to do something nice for a friend, he finds himself charged with a crime. Corporate Security gives him a choice: prison--or become a spy in the headquarters of their chief competitor, Trion Systems. When he tries to break off from his controllers, he finds he's in way over his head, trapped in a world in which nothing is...
10) 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...
11) Empty vows
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"Forty-something widow Jessie Tucker is beloved throughout Lexington, Alabama, for her kind heart and endless generosity. But she feels it's past time she rewarded herself-especially when upstanding Hubert Wiggins tragically loses his wife and son. Making herself indispensable, yet discouraged by Hubert's lack of romantic interest, Jessie cooks up a deception she knows will make pious Hubert do right by her... Hoax or not, Hubert couldn't be happier....
Author
Description
After Justine Nolan discovers that her mother has been pretending that Justine's favorite grandmother has been dead for ten years, she embarks on a search that takes her to Istanbul, where she discovers family secrets that go all the way back to World War II--and a chance to follow the true desires in her heart.
13) The stranger
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Description
"The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world."--
14) Apple Tree yard
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (239 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It is a stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Yvonne Carmichael is a married woman living a quiet life with her husband and two children. Her world is turned upside down when a chance meeting with Mark Costley leads to a passionate affair and a moment of shocking violence. Her only way out is to admit the truth, the truth that would destroy her...
15) Copperhead
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
350 pages 23 cm
Description
"All Jessup wants is to enjoy his senior year at Cortaca High and get a scholarship to attend college. It doesn't seem impossible. He's a standout varsity football player. A good student. He works at the local movie theater to help his mother make ends meet. But it's hard to live a normal life when everybody in town knows that your stepfather is a white supremacist--a white supremacist who was involved in a violent encounter with two young black college...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Three generations of women. Three generations worth of secrets. Will a cache of letters from beyond the grave hold the key to unravelling them all?...Growing up, the Anderson sisters could not have been more different. Susie, the wild one, had an adventurous life while Camilla? Mills?followed a safer path. When Susie suddenly dies, Mills falls apart. Until she receives a bundle of mysterious letters from her estranged sister to be read in the case...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A sexy waitress down on her luck meets a charming, big-spending "millionaire." While the two indulge in a romance, complete with expensive dinners, hundreds of roses, and a champagne-filled swimming pool, the clock is ticking on a million-dollar debt to the mob. Secrets on both sides abound. Will this spicy fairy tale have a happy ending?
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
x, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
Description
From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed,...
19) The Russian cage
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 3
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Description
"Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail...
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One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator whos as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
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