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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...
2) 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.
3) Seven lies
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven. Growing up, they shared everything, they knew the other's deepest secrets, and they wouldn't have had it any other way. Jane was always happiest when it was just the two of them; in fact, she remembers those days as the best time of her life. And even when Jane married the man of her dreams, somehow, Jonathan only added to Jane's life, without subtracting from the perfect equation of her...
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...
Author
Series
Eric Steele novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
490 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
412 pages, 6 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"When her partner of over a decade suddenly ends things, Laurie is left reeling--not only because they work at the same law firm and she has to see him every day. Her once perfect life is in shambles and the thought of dating again in the age of Tinder is nothing short of horrifying. When news of her ex's pregnant girlfriend hits the office grapevine, taking the humiliation lying down is not an option. Then a chance encounter in a broken-down elevator...
Author
Description
"She's your best friend. She knows all your secrets. That's why she's so dangerous. A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, in this chilling debut thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train"--
"A debut psychological thriller--in the vein of GONE GIRL or GIRL ON A TRAIN--that focuses on a mommy blogger, her best friend who disappears suddenly, and the latter's husband--with betrayals and reversals,...
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.
9) Liar, liar
Author
Formats
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.
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.
12) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each other's...
Author
Formats
Description
"Award-winning poet and critic Kevin Young traces the history of the hoax as a peculiarly American phenomenon--the legacy of P.T. Barnum's 'humbug' culminating with the currency of Donald J. Trump's 'fake news'. Disturbingly, Young finds that fakery is woven from stereotype and suspicion, with race being the most insidious American hoax of all. He chronicles how Barnum came to fame by displaying figures like Joice Heth, a black woman whom he pretended...
14) Picture perfect
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As adorable as she is ambitious, Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position and equally determined to snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women. She achieves both goals by pretending she's getting married to Nick, a man she met at a wedding and barely knows. But her carefully constructed fictional life comes face to face with reality when her boss wants to...
Author
Series
Clifton Chronicles volume 2
Description
A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harry's own.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Minke Van Aisma journeys across three continents, moving from a life of opulence in Amsterdam to the immigrant experience in nineteenth-century New York, in her efforts to find her kidnapped son and take revenge on those responsible for his abduction.
17) Lolita
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Newly arrived in Ramsdale, New Hampshire, European e?migre? Humbert Humbert is smitten. He plans to marry Charlotte Haze. That way he'll always be close to his dear one-- Charlotte's precocious daughter!"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xx, 367 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
In the pre-dawn darkness of April 30, 1943, the body of a Royal Marine Major washed ashore on the south-western coast of Spain, part of an incredible plot to mislead the German High Command about the Allies' impending Mediterranean invasion. What made this ruse unique--and macabre--was that the "Major" was actually a deceased Welsh laborer, who drifted lifelessly ashore carrying false documents indicating that the Allies were set to launch an attack...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
8 CDs (9 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Thistle Tate, a bestselling author with glowing reviews, diehard fans across the globe, and more, struggles with secrets that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect world.
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