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"In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves The Thursday Murder Club. There's Red Ron, the infamous former socialist firebrand, still causing trouble; gentle Joyce, widowed, pining for another resident, but surely not as innocent as she seems; Ibrahim, a former therapist who understands the darker side of human nature; and Elizabeth? Well, no one...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Lucy Kelson is Chief Counsel for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant lawyer with a sharp, strategic mind. She also has an ulcer and doesn't get much sleep. It's not the job that's getting to her. It's her millionaire boss, George Wade. Handsome, charming and undeniably self-absorbed, he treats her more like a nanny than a Harvard Law grad and can barely choose a tie without her help....
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Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
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1 videodisc (ca. 212 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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Four western films featuring Gene Autry. The man from music mountain: When Gene Autry is swindled into buying worthless plots of land he attempts to trick the land developer into buying them back; Oh, Susanna!: A western musical in which Gene Autry is robbed and thrown from a train; The old barn dance: Autry outsmarts the land connoisseur who seems to possess every major company in town; The old corral: Sheriff Autry protects a witness to a murder...
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Goddesses Anonymous volume 1
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Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
467 p. ; 21 cm.
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"With nothing but brains, ambition and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real-estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain...but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost...
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Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
2017
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1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these tow opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds collide and neither will ever be the same.
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Mags and Baxter mysteries volume 1
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With the ruins of her high-powered Wall Street job now far in the rearview mirror of her rented silver Camaro, thirty-two-year-old Mags Rogers arrives at her great-aunt Jeep's sprawling Wings Ranch to reassemble her life. In the passenger seat, with his suspicious nose to a cracked window, is Mags's beloved wirehaired dachshund, the urbane Baxter. Mags was named for her great-aunt, Magdalena--though everyone calls the spry octogenarian rancher Jeep....
7) The mermaid
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Xuan's real estate project involved reclamation of the sea, threatening the livelihood of the residents who relied on the sea to make a living. Bearing family secrets, Shan was dispatched to stop Xuan. During their encounters, they fall in love with each other. Even though Xuan stopped the reclamation plan out of his love for Shan, Shan got injured in an accident and vanished into the sea.
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Lincoln Perry mysteries volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
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290 p. ; 24 cm.
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When an alleged suicide victim's wife and six-year-old daughter go missing, private investigator Lincoln Perry and his partner, Joe Pritchard, pursue a theory that the man was actually murdered.
10) Life of crime
Publisher
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (ca. 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When two criminals kidnap the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer, things take a sudden turn when they learn that he has no intent of paying her million dollar ransom.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
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381 p. ; 25 cm.
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A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident-- Masterji--...
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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389 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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"In one way or another, Donald Trump has been a topic of conversation in America for almost forty years. No one in the world of business-not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or Warren Buffett-has been as famous as Trump for as long. First associated with high-profile real estate development in 1970s Manhattan, his name has since become synonymous with success defined by wealth and luxury. What does one make of a grown man who, when he argues with women, stoops...
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Martha's Vineyard mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
229 p. : map ; 22 cm.
14) Blindman's bluff
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Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 18
Description
Los Angeles detective Peter Decker tackles a homicide case involving a billionaire real estate developer, his wife, and four employees. While Decker leads his homicide team throughout California and into Mexico, he thinks his own wife is on jury back at the courthouse. But a chance encounter with a court translator who needs her help leads Rina into the heart of the murder investigation, and straight into the path of a gang of ruthless killers.
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Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 263 pages ; 24 cm
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Love him or hate him, Trump's influence is undeniable. A man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout, Trump's career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy. Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, NY would become an entirely new, and complex, breed of public figure. Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, Johnston...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
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245 p. ; 22 cm.
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Creek Canyon volume 3
Publisher
Amazon Pub
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
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El amor podriá ser el proyecto maś desafiante de su vida. Grace Hudson, la uńica mujer ingeniera de su departamento, ha optado por guardar las distancias con los hombres: su uĺtima conquista amorosa la dejo ́profundamente traumatizada, asi ́que ahora su objetivo es centrarse en su carrera. Aunque no puede haber nada de malo en coquetear con un atractivo desconocido en la cafeteriá, ¿no? En su breve intercambio, Grace deslumbra a Dameon Locke,...
19) The rum diary
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tired of the noise and madness of New York, journalist Paul Kemp moves to Puerto Rico to write for a local newspaper. Adopting the rum-soaked life of the island, Kemp becomes obsessed with the fiancee of Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. When he is recruited by Sanderson to write favorably about his latest unsavory scheme, Kemp is presented with the choice to use his words for the corrupt businessman's financial...
20) Last call
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A real estate developer returns to his old Philly neighborhood and must decide to raze or resurrect the family bar.
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