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Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In this spellbinding true story, a pair of award-winning CNN investigative journalists track down the mysterious French psychic at the center of an international scam targeting the elderly and emotionally vulnerable, resulting in an expose of one of the longest running cons in history. While investigating financial crimes for CNN Money, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken were intrigued by reports that elderly Americans were giving away thousands of...
82) Nightmare alley
Series
Criterion collection volume 1078
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
The rise and fall of Stanton Carlisle, a mentalist whose lies and deceit prove to be his downfall.
Author
Series
Dino riders volume 6
Formats
Description
While the sheriff is away, crooked businessman Malachi Wilks and his stegosaurus workers try to build a railroad through Trihorn Valley, with only Josh and his friends standing in his way.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (695 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sophisticated conman Neal Caffrey teams up with FBI Agent Peter Burke to investigate an intriguing array of crimes ranging from extortion to murder. Now, reeling from the death of his girlfriend, Neal struggles to unlock the secret behind a mysterious music box and find Kate's killer, even as his partnership with Peter begins to crumble.
85) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lady card shark on a transatlantic ocean liner tries to fleece a young millionaire, but ends up falling in love.
87) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A lady card shark on a transatlantic ocean liner tries to fleece a young millionaire, but ends up falling in love.
88) Color me Kubrick
Publisher
distributed by Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of a man living in London who posed as Stanley Kubrick for the last decade or so of Kubrick's life, despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
89) The handmaiden
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance.
90) Identity
Author
Description
Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party―attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar―her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car...
91) Going postal
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on Terry Pratchetts Discworld novel involves a skillful con artist Moist Von Lipwig who finds the tables turned and it's he himself who is conned into becoming the Ankh-Morpork Postmaster General. A position that has not been filled in years.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
464 pages
Description
In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith?s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic...
93) Pixie
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After attempting a heist and seeking to avenge her mother's death, Pixie Hardy finds she must team up with two misfits, and together they flee a gang of criminal priests and nuns while swindling anyone in their path.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and happens to have a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom...
95) Life
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rayford Gibson is the fast talking con-artist and Claude Banks is the conservative bank teller. The two are accidentally teamed up to become the funniest "odd couple" east of the Mississippi. There is no limit to their comical misfortune as they are placed at the scene of a crime and their mistaken identity lands them right in front of the judge. This hysterical comedy gives a whole new meaning to friends for life.
96) Dakota
Series
Publisher
Republic Pictures
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brawling western saga with John Wayne battling land grabbers in the Dakota territory.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Forty years' accumulation of art, antiques, and family photographs are more than just objects for Stanley Peke--they are proof of a life fully lived. When a con man steals his houseful of possessions in a sophisticated moving-day scam, Peke wanders helplessly through his empty New England home, inevitably reminded of another helpless time: decades in Peke's past, a cold and threadbare Stanislaw Shmuel Pecoskowitz eked out a desperate existence in...
98) Going postal
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (185 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Moist von Lipwig is caught for his trickery, he is given the option of becoming the next postmaster or falling down a deep pit.
100) Nightmare alley
Author
Publisher
New York Review of Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xiii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich...
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