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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
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 220 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
"The leading lie-detection instructor to the FBI and other security agencies for over two decades, David Lieberman, PhD, takes "people reading" to a whole new level. Drawing on the latest research in psycholinguistics-the vital cues embedded in spoken andwritten speech patterns--Mindreader delivers proven, cutting-edge methods useful for countless real life applications, including: Learning to detect the messaging behind passive and indirect language,...
43) The face thief
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
44) Jackpot
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After winning a huge sum of money in a betting pool, four coworkers begin to double-cross each other over the prize money. Based on a story by top crime writer Jo Nesbo, a Coen Brothers-inspired riff on greed and betrayal with a Nordic twist.
45) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but nai?ve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
Author
Formats
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
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...
48) The bodyguard
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...
49) Capricorn One
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
NASA tries to fake a manned Mars probe when the head of the mission realizes that the equipment is faulty. He does not abort the mission because he fears that Congress and the President might withdraw funding for the space program.
50) Family storms
Author
Series
Storms volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
After a hit-and-run accident kills her mother and leaves her badly injured, Sasha, formerly homeless, is taken in by a wealthy stranger who has never recovered from the loss of her own daughter and wants Sasha to take her place.
51) 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...
52) 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.
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this psychological thriller, Detective Inspector John McKeown, who is investigating a murder at a scrap yard, gets drawn into the life of one of the suspects, 17 year old Dex. An unlikely friendship develops, but nothing is as it seems in this relationship taut with deception and betrayal.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"A middle-aged poet finds herself adrift in her marriage and life now that her child has moved away to college. Her job teaching Greek myth to high school boys at a prestigious New York City academy has its small pleasures-her students offer surprising insights to stories she's studied for decades-but as her debut poetry collection approaches publication she starts to notice the seams of her life becoming unloosed. The chorus of voices in her life...
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the autobiography of a brilliant young master of deception and the FBI agent hot on his trail. Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. passed himself off as a pilot, a lawyer, and a doctor all before his 21st birthday.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 DVDs : sounds, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it is better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
57) Paranoia
Author
Formats
Description
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...
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.
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Trump triggered massive cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias on both the left and the right. We?re hardwired to respond to emotion, not reason. We might listen to 10 percent of a speech?a hand gesture here, a phrase there?and if the right buttons are pushed, we irrationally agree with the speaker and invent reasons to justify that decision after the fact."--Amazon.com.
60) Empty vows
Author
Series
Publisher
Dafina
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"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....
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