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Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Las ficciones tragicomicas reunidas en este libro tienen un comun denominador: la irrupcion de una voluntad avasalladora en las vidas de hombres y mujeres vulnerables que renacen o se desmoronan bajo el influjo de sus fantasmas. En que se transforman los seres proclives a dejarse invadir, ya sea en la entrega amorosa, en la idolatria, o en la sumision a un artifice traicionero? Siete cuentos de humor negro relatan ese apocalipsis intimo desde el...
83) Criss cross
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An armored truck driver arranges to have himself robbed while on the job.
84) The stranger
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"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."--
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Two employees of a bumbling royal reluctantly agree to fake a relationship after a clumsy moment leads to a questionable tabloid photo and swirling rumors in the new novel by the author of Battle Royale
Series
Criterion collection volume 938
Description
Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
88) 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...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral--claiming to be the lord's illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging his three adult sons and widow. Eventually, however, Phaedra's sweet nature thaws the frosty relationships. She becomes the daughter that Antoinette Frampton never...
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Flora Mancini has been happily married for more than twenty years. But everything she thought she knew about herself, her marriage, and her relationship with her best friend, Margot, is upended when she stumbles upon an envelope containing her husband?s wedding ring?the one he claimed he lost one summer when their daughter, Ruby, was five. Flora and Julian struggled for years, scraping together just enough acting work to raise Ruby in Manhattan and...
91) Closer
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (104 min.) : sound, color ; 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 fiance, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt and anger.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
The author, a behavioral economist, challenges our preconceptions about dishonesty; we all cheat, whether it is copying a paper in the classroom, or white lies on our expense accounts. He explores how unethical behavior works in the personal, professional, and political worlds, and how it affects all of use, even as we think of ourselves as having high moral standards. He explores the question of dishonesty from Washington to Wall Street, and the...
93) Genuine fraud
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Description
Told through flashbacks, best friends Jule and Imogen are orphaned outcasts who will do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
94) Blood simple
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
95) 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
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
162 pages
Description
"Que es el pensamiento adictivo? Cuales son las causas y los sintomas de las conductas de codependencia? Sin lugar a dudas pocos campos de la investigacion de los quehaceres humanos han producido tantos especialistas como la dependencia de las sustancias quimicas. El alcoholismo y la farmacodependencia estan colmados de expertos, tanto nacionales como internacionales, cada uno de ellos con su verdad. Sin embargo pocos han trabajado sobre los procesos...
97) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
98) 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...
99) Best enemies
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Amy Sherman has it all-a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment, a great job as a publicity director at a major publishing house, and a romantic life that's…less than robust, but two out of three isn't bad. She's come a long way from playing second fiddle to spotlight hog and former best friend, Tara Messer. In fact, she's even recovered from walking in on her blond bombshell frenemy in the bedroom, with her fiancée, just before her wedding. Or so she...
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"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...
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