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201) Chasing Madoff
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Tells the story of Harry Markopolos, a whistleblower of the monumental Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, describing his discovery of the investment banker's crimes, as well as his repeated warnings to the Securities and Exchange Commision that went unheeded.
Author
Series
Gentleman bastard novels volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Physical Desc
650 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Description
With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.
203) My friend Anna
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
7 CDs (9 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vanity Fair photo editor Rachel DeLoache Williams's new friend Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was worldly and ambitious. She was also generous-picking up the tab for lavish dinners at Le Coucou, infrared sauna sessions at HigherDOSE, drinks at the 11 Howard Library bar, and regular workout sessions with a celebrity personal trainer. When Anna proposed an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel, Rachel...
204) RocknRolla
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs. This attracts some of the city's scrappiest tough guys, along with its more established underworld types. All are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but who is very much alive. He has the multi-million dollar prize fall, literally, into his hands.
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
253 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
The widow of Mark Madoff and daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff presents an insider's account as an unsuspecting member of the family associated with the audacious Ponzi scheme, describing her idyllic marriage, her belief in her husband's innocence, their ordeals at the height of the media frenzy and her husband's tragic suicide.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
399 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
One in nine Americans will lose money as a victim of fraud. In this jaw-dropping exposé of fraud in America today-- who's doing it, how it's done, and how you can protect yourself--the world of fraud is laid bare: from personal finance and investment schemes to Internet scams and identity theft, to pyramid cons and the infamous Nigerian advance fee frauds. Jeffrey Robinson levels the playing field, arming consumers with the knowledge they need.
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The small town of Paradise is devastated when a star high-school baseball player is found dead at the bottom of a bluff just a day after winning the team’s biggest game. For Jesse, the loss is doubly difficult—the teen was the nephew of his colleague, Suitcase Simpson, and Jesse had been coaching the young shortstop. As he searches for answers about how the boy died and why, he is stonewalled at every turn, and it seems that someone is determined...
208) After the fox
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A convicted con artist becomes a new wave Italian director as a front. Peter Sellers as the Fox dons no less than eight disguises en route to becoming director Federico Fabrizi.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (617 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charming con man Neal Caffrey escapes from a maximum security prison, only to be recaptured by his nemesis, FBI Agent Peter Burke. With few options, Caffrey agrees to help the bureau bring down other elusive criminals in exchange for his eventual freedom. But before long, Caffrey finds himself playing a game of cat and mouse with those who want him back in prison or dead.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (308 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blonde crazy : A bellhop and chambermaid are out to enjoy each other, while conning criminals.
Strangers may kiss : A desperate lady is on a love trek across the continent.
Hi, Nellie : A newspaperman gets demoted to being a column writer, and finds comfort in a glass.
Dark hazard : A gambling addict is torn between a good girl and a glamour girl who bets it all on one special pooch.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion/Voice
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 220 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"Throughout her life, Alexandra Penney's worst fear was of becoming a bag lady. Even as she worked several jobs as a single mother, wrote a bestselling advice book, and became editor in chief of Self magazine, she was haunted by the image of herself alone, bankrupt, and living on the street--she even went to therapy to alleviate the worry. And then, one day, that's exactly what happened. She had taken a friend's advice and invested nearly all of her...
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
When a foiled attempt to infiltrate the corrupt LaRoux Industries forces hacker Gideon Marchant and revenge-seeking Sofia Quinn into a fragile alliance, they join forces with Icarus survivors Tarver and Lilac and Avon's protectors Flynn and Jubilee, to take down the most powerful corporation in the galaxy--before LRI's secrets destroy them all.
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Formats
Description
"The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written--Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom--landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. Described as both "one of the most important novels ever written" and "the gospel of evil," 120 Days of Sodom was penned by the Marquis de Sade, a notorious eighteenth-century aristocrat who waged a campaign of mayhem and debauchery across...
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (235 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jean de Florette: Set amidst the rugged hills of Provence, this epic saga follows the heroic efforts of Jean Cadoret, who inherits a farm from his mother, Florette, and leaves his city job behind, hoping to create a "new Eden" with his wife and daughter. But, unbeknownst to Jean, his greedy neighbor, Ce?sar Soubeyran, is plotting to steal the land out from under him with a wicked scheme that drives Jean to the brink of madness.
Manon of the spring:...
218) The bounty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Straight as an arrow special agent Kate O'Hare and international con man Nick Fox have brought down some of the biggest criminals out there. But now they face their most dangerous foe yet--a vast, shadowy, international organization known only as the Brotherhood. Directly descended from the Vatican Bank priests who served Hitler during World War II, the Brotherhood is on a frantic search for a lost train loaded with $30 billion in Nazi gold, untouched...
Series
Eclipse volume series 41
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 412 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Disc 1: Port of flowers ( Hana saku minato ) -- Two con men arrive in a seaside town to swindle the locals, but soon they have a crisis of conscience (1943) Disc 2: The living magoroku ( Ikite iru Magoroku ) -- Under pressure form neighbors, a wealthy family must decide if they want to cultivate soil that hasn't been tilled for centuries in order to aid the war effort. (1943) Disc 3: Jubilation street ( Kanko no machi ) -- A close community must...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (454 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Manhattan melodrama: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Evelyn Prentice: John Prentice is a successful Manhattan defense attorney. When his wife Evelyn ends an affair, her ex-lover blackmails her and he is murdered. Another woman is accused of the crime and Evelyn begs John to defend her.
Double wedding: A bohemian painter butts heads with his girlfriend's...
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