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301) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray discs (142 min.) : Blu-ray, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On 1920s Long Island, a dashing enigmatic millionaire becomes obsessed with an elusive, spoiled young woman.
303) Altered carbon
Author
Series
Takeshi Kovacs novels volume 1
Formats
Description
In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself--a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly...
304) Live-in maid
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Buenos Aires is plunged into an economic meltdown, Bebe faces crises and is unable to pay her longtime maid, Dora. The two realize that in order to survive, they must put aside their class resentments.
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"Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree ... things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it's soon clear that plenty...
306) Brotherhood in death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Sometimes brotherhood can be another word for conspiracy. Dennis Mira just had two unpleasant surprises. First he learned that his cousin Edward was secretly meeting with a real estate agent about their late grandfather's magnificent SoHo brownstone, despite the promise they both made to keep it in the family. Then, when he went to the house to confront Edward about it, he got a blunt object to the back of the head. Luckily Dennis is married to Charlotte...
307) The great Gatsby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 minutes) : digital, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The richest of New York's rich gather at The Pierre's Cotillion Room to raise money for those less fortunate. A fatal blast rocks the room, stirring up horrifying memories of 9/11. Is the explosion an act or terrorism or a homicide? A big-name female filmmaker is the next to die, in a desolate corner of New York City. Detectives Zach Jordan and Kylie MacDonald of the elite NYPD task force investigate, and the intimate details of the director's life...
309) The first wife
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
560 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
For readers of Olivia Goldsmith and Mary Jane Clark comes a dramatic - and sensational - new thriller with twists and turns at every corner and a chilling shock-surprise of an ending.
Jane Warren swore she'd never marry again. Sure, age isn't a problem. Neither are her looks. Heaven knows that plenty of perfectly respectable men would consider themselves lucky to end up with someone like her. Then again, the last perfectly respectable man to end...
310) Results
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny's well-funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat. Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professionally and personally.
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
Return to Duckburg with the cast of DuckTales in a new generation of adventures featuring Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, and his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie! The incorrigible billionaire is up to his wacky, quacky hijinks, with a cast of characters new and old ready to jump into the mix!
312) The second murderer
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It's early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend...
313) Steal: a novel
Author
Series
Instinct (James Patterson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him. Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter's sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it... Or did he? The one person convinced he's still alive is his...
314) Citizen Kane
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (119 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of an immensely weathly newspaper publisher, as he is remembered by his friends and former wife after his death.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"From Joan Juliet Buck, former editor-in-chief of Paris Vogue comes her dazzling, compulsively readable memoir: a fabulous account of four decades spent in the creative heart of London, New York, Los Angeles, and Paris, chronicling her quest to discover the difference between glitter and gold, illusion and reality, and what looks like happiness from the thing itself. Born into a world of make-believe as the daughter of a larger-than-life film producer,...
316) The divorce party
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246, 11 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Set in Hamptons high society, The Divorce Party features two women-one newly engaged and one at the end of her marriage-trying to answer the same question: when should you fight to save a relationship, and when should you let go? An insightful and funny multi-generational story, this deeply moving novel is sure to touch anyone whose heart has weathered an unexpected storm"--
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 291 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"One of our most influential progressive voices tells the story of the hollowing of the American middle class and lays out the choices that we must make now to ensure that the dream of prosperity can live on for generations." --Provided by the publisher"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Yellowjackets meets The Cloisters in this beguiling coming-of-age story about class, reinvention, and destiny, set against the backdrop of two mysterious deaths. Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on theYale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound confidence, she finds that the group has been infiltrated by a mysterious intruder: Annelise Tattinger. A talented...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
x, 3, 398 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
A love story, Alone Together is also a fascinating glimpse into the twentieth century from the view of one of its most remarkable couples. This is how the other half lived-- dinner dances, satin gowns, beach houses, hotel suites, first-class cabins on the Queen Mary. Teddy's life story moves from the glittering nightclubs of 1930s New York City to Mussolini's Italy, where she was imprisoned by the fascist regime, to California in the golden postwar...
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