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Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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293 pages : portraits ; 25 cm
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"Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world's most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies. There's never before been a company like Netflix. Not only because it has led a revolution in the entertainment industries; or because it generates billions of dollars in annual revenue; or even because it is watched by hundreds of millions of people in nearly 200 countries. When Reed...
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"Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that her local expertise and charismatic staff can win the favor of their new London billionaire owner, Xavier Darling, as well as that of Shelly Carpenter, the wildly popular Instagram tastemaker who can...
84) See the keepers
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows four zookeepers and explores the behind-the-scenes work at a zoo.
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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2 DVDs (430 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A wonderful combination of romance, comedy and drama that follows the lives of four postal detectives who transform themselves into a team of detectives to track down intended recipients of undeliverable mail. Their missions take them out of the office and into an unpredictable world where redirected letters and packages can save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves and change futures by arriving late but somehow always on time.
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Series
Fairy tale fatal volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
After fast-talking her way into the role of lady's maid to a New York millionaire's bride, gutsy America actress Ophelia Flax finds herself in the heart of Grimm territory where she is faced with murder and mayhem after the ruins of Snow White's cottage are discovered nearb
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This woven kingdom volume 1
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"To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight. The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can't put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom--and the world"--
88) Nobody walks
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
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Mick Herron now introduces Tom Bettany, an ex-spook with a violent past and only one thing to live for: Avenging his son's death. Tom Bettany is working at a meat processing plant in France when he gets a voicemail from an Englishwoman he doesn't know telling him that his estranged 26-year-old son is dead--Liam Bettany fell from his London balcony, where he was smoking dope. Now for the first time since he cut all ties years ago, Bettany returns home...
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of blind devotion and repressed love between a fanatically proper butler and a high-spirited, strong-minded young housekeeper employed by a British lord who is unwittingly a Nazi dupe.
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 432 pages ; 24 cm
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In the early days of the Trump presidency, the people who work in the institutions that make America America saw Trump up close in the Oval Office and became convinced that they had to stand up to an unbound president. These officials faced a situation without parallel in American history: What do you do, and who do you call, if you are the only one standing between the president, his extraordinary powers, and the abyss? Michael S. Schmidt's Donald...
92) Protector
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The author "takes readers back to Jacobsville, Texas, where Hayes Carson is a lawman on a search for justice. His brother had been the only family he had left in the world. Hayes, a long, tall and serious Texan, has long been suspicious of the blond-haired, bright-eyed Minette Raynor, who is both mysterious and beautiful. And now he's convinced that Minette was involved in giving his brother the drugs that killed him. As far as Hayes is concerned,...
93) Love letters
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
With the bookshop where she works about to close, Laura Horsley finds herself agreeing to help organize a literary festival deep in the heart of the English countryside. But when an innocent mistake leads the festival committee to believe that Laura is a personal friend of the author at the top of their wish-list, she finds herself travelling to Ireland to persuade the notorious recluse (and her literary hero) to come out of hiding.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 24 cm
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A novel "about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a #bosshalfherage"--
Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like "taking a break" from being a husband and father. Without warning Rory is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming...
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Inspector O novel volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"James Church's Inspector O novels have been hailed as "crackling good" (The Washington Post). Now Church--a former Western intelligence officer who pulls back the curtain on the hidden world of North Korea in a way that no one else can--comes roaring back with an unputdownable new novel. A Spanish factory near Barcelona is secretly producing--under the guise of a dumpling maker--a key machine for the production of nuclear weapons. Western intelligence...
97) Bad actors
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Series
Slough House volume 8
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In London's MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster-a specialist who advises the Prime Minister's office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate-hasdisappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with tracking her down. But the trail leads him straight back to Regent's Park itself, with First Desk Diana Taverner...
98) Perfect match
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"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
322 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants.
100) At war
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Despite record profits, and heavy sacrifices made by their employees, the management of Perrin Industries decides to shut down a factory. The 1,100 employees decide to battle against the brutal decision in an attempt to save their jobs.
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