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Author
Publisher
Titletown Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxii, 179 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Co-authored by a renowned psychologist and survival expert, this book delves into the details of how a little girl survived the at-sea murder of her family; the pod of whales who guarded her; and the aftermath and the recapturing of life.
3) Still life
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Series
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"Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just north of the U.S. border, has been found dead in the woods. The locals are certain it's a tragic hunting accident and nothing more, but Gamache smells something foul in these remote woods, and is soon certain...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiance?, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
Author
Series
Side roads volume 1
Formats
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Sheridan Montgomery leads a charmed life as the wife of Eliot, U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. But an attack on their lives cripples Eliot, and they retreat to a remote Mexican village. As Sheridan quietly cares for her husband, she sees her dreams slipping away. Luke Traynor shatters their reverie when he arrives to tell Sheridan of her father's heart attack and the evidence implicating him in a conspiracy. Sheridan returns to Chicago to untangle the...
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"January 15, 1978, is a night of promise, excitement, and desire. A serial killer's murderous spree in the Pacific Northwest couldn't be further from the minds of the vibrant young women at the top sorority on Florida State University's campus in Tallahassee. That night, Pamela Schumacher, president of the sorority, makes the unpopular decision to stay home. Startled awake at 3 a.m. by a strange sound, she makes the fateful decision to investigate....
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
136 p. ;
Description
"Each year, approximately forty thousand Americans are killed by gunshot wounds, which is roughly equivalent to the annual rate of traffic deaths on American roads and highways. Of those forty thousand gun fatalities, more than half of them are suicides,which in turn account for half of all suicides per year. Add in the murders caused by guns, the accidental deaths caused by guns, the law enforcement killings caused by guns, and the average comes...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Audrey Burke is reeling from the shock of the news that has just been delivered to her door by the local police - her husband, Brian, had been killed in a random act of violence. Once anchored by the love and comforts of their marriage, Audrey is now adrift. Impulsively, she turns to Jerry, a down-and-out addict who has been her husband's close friend since childhood. Desperate to fill the painful void caused by her husband's death, Audrey invites...
11) The howling
Description
"Severely traumatized by a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, TV newscaster Karen White takes time off at a secluded retreat called 'the Colony.' But when, after nights of being tormented by bestial, bloodcurdling cries, Karen ventures into the woods seeking answers, she makes a terrifying discovery. Now she must fight not only for her life-- but for her soul!"--Container.
12) Goat
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the wake of a psychologically devastating and physically detrimental assault, a man follows his brother's lead in pledging a fraternity, where he is exposed to the brutal world of hazing.
13) How it went down
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Recounts the story of the author's marriage to her reporter husband, who was nearly killed by sniper fire while on assignment in Romania, describing how his recovery was impeded by a deep depression that challenged the author's perceptions about loving support. A story of food and love, injury and healing, "Keeping the Feast" is the triumphant memoir of one couple's nourishment and restoration in Italy after a period of tragedy, and the extraordinary...
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Kerstin Norback is shot and gravely wounded by her lover, the trial causes a public scandal, forcing her to move to Stockholm under an assumed name. There she befriends a group of women and attempts to rebuild her life, free of public scrutiny. But the fear of her true identity being discovered follows Kerstin at every turn, and reaches a critical point when her ex-lover appears.
16) No second chance
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (14 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something...
Publisher
Lionsgate Artisan
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (510 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Seeking Justice: Will Gerard is a family man whose life is turned upside-down when his wife, Laura is brutally attacked one night while leaving work. Will is approached by Simon who offers to have a stranger exact vengeance on Laura's attacker, in exchange for a favor in the near future.
Law Abiding Citizen: Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter were brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught,...
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