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Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House, built in 1702, using period materials and methods and on a holiday deadline. But his enchantment withers as he discovers the massive repairs it needs. A small kitchen fix reveals that the structure's rotten frame could collapse at any moment. In a bathroom, mold appears and spreads. He...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who rose from blue-collar Brooklyn to the heights of luxury. But while he was flying around the world on his private jet and hosting lavish parties at his private island in the Caribbean, he also was secretly masterminding an international child sex ring—one that may have involved the richest and most...
12503) The far side of the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Bahamas, 1943. Hoping to escape her turbulent past, twenty-three-year-old Dodie Wyatt has fled to Nassau. But the world is at war, and one night the peaceful life she has created for herself is shattered when she discovers a man dying in an alleyway . . . Ella Stanford is married to a powerful diplomat who's been appointed to keep the Duke of Windsor far from his Nazi friends in Germany. And in this city now teeming with danger, Ella has her...
12504) The last gladiators
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It was simple, protect the teammates no matter the cost. For Chris 'Knuckles' Nilan this meant a shattered body, addiction to drugs, and harming the people closest to him. But in the process, he won the love of hockey's city, Montreal, and helped win the Stanley Cup. Through interviews with hockey's toughest guys, the film explores what it means to enforce the unspoken code of the NHL.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Would you like to know how the universe works? The science that has found many of the answers to that profound and age-old question is particle physics, the study of those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names : bosons and leptons, quarks and neutrinos. Steven Pollock translates the language of the remarkable science that, in only 100 years, has unlocked the secrets of the basic forces of nature. You will become familiar with the...
12506) Gone astray
Author
Series
DC Maggie Neville volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
When Lesley Kinnock buys a lottery ticket on a whim, it changes her life more than she could have known ... Lesley and her husband Mack are the sudden winners of a GBP15 million EuroMillions jackpot. They move with their fifteen-year-old daughter Rosie to an exclusive gated estate in Buckinghamshire, leaving their ordinary lives - and friends - behind, as they are catapulted into wealth beyond their wildest dreams. But it soon turns into their darkest...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true crime. In November 2013, Rose Andersen's younger sister Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her boyfriend's home in a small town with oneof the highest rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 24 years old. To imagine her way into Sarah's life and her choices, Rose...
12509) She Said
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America limited series, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation--a story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and altered American culture forever....
12510) Little Boy
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Little Pepper Busbee enjoys an idyllic life in an American small town, but his world is shattered when his beloved father is sent off to fight in World War II. But a chance encounter with a stage magician awakens his dormant abilities and clues him into the power of faith. Now his devotion to his father will extend past time and space and into the realm of miracles.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of a dark night off the coast of Vietnam on June 3, 1969, the USS Frank E. Evans is rammed by a ship ten times her size, sending her forward half to the bottom of the South China Sea and into oblivion. Seventy-four Americans are killed in this mysterious collision. Three brothers from a small town in Nebraska are gone, as is the son of a chief who barely survived. Only one body is ever found. The truth is confined to a footnote of the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics. It wasn't long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court for political gain. But now, in the Biden era, more and more powerful Democrats are getting behind the cause, claiming the high court is broken and actively...
12513) Fast X: DVD
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Over many missions and against impossible odds, Dom Toretto and his family have outsmarted, out-nerved and outdriven every foe in their path. Now, they confront the most lethal opponent they've ever faced: A terrifying threat emerging from the shadows of the past who's fueled by blood revenge, and who is determined to shatter this family and destroy everything and everyone that Dom loves, forever.
12514) Prayer of the Rollerboys
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Shattered and bankrupt, America has been overwhelmed by the onslaught of violence, designer drugs and inner city warfare. Rising from the ashes to take control is the seductive and deadly new paramilitary gang called the Rollerboys. A young hero teamed with an undercover agent enter the sinister underworld of the Rollerboys to halt their fiendish plot as the world teeters on the brink of a terrifying new age.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Jorge Cruise unleashes his new fitness and weight-loss series with one simple piece of advice: Work smarter, not harder. With his revolutionary 5-Minute Fitness Formula and 6-Day Challenge, he shatters the conventional wisdom that rapid, lasting weight loss can only be achieved through hours and hours in the gym, day after day. In Inches Off! Your Tummy, Jorge unveils the most effective exercise formula to optimize belly-fat burn all day--using compound...
12516) ¡Las sandinistas!
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the untold stories of Nicaraguan women warriors and social revolutionaries who shattered barriers to lead combat and social reform during Nicaragua's 1979 Sandinista Revolution, the ensuing US-backed Contra War, and documents their leadership in the continuing struggle for justice today. The film reveals a magical moment in world history when thousands of female rebel fighters transformed society's definition of womanhood and leadership.
12517) The phantom of the opera
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Unrated director's cut; Full frame and widescreen [edition].
Language
English
Description
A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leaves a bloody body trail in the subterranean caverns of an opera house basement. Born into the murky sewer waters below the theater stalks a man/monster raised by creatures of the underworld. This Phantom's dark and grotesque life is shattered when he becomes obsessed with a beautiful young singer, seducing her with his chilling but erotic presence.
12518) The burning
Author
Series
Kate Burkholder volume 16
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning her to a suspicious fire in the woods. When she arrives at the scene, she discovers a charred body. According to the coroner, the deceased, an Amish man named...
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Unrated edition.
Language
English
Description
Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
12520) Heart of the country
Pub. Date
2013, 2012.
Language
English
Description
"Country music's hottest young superstar, Jana Kramer, plays the lead role in this romantic tale of a prodigal daughter's inspirational journey home. When her husband is arrested, wealthy New York socialite and singer Faith Carraday (Kramer) returns to her Southern roots and the family she left behind years ago. Amongst the beautiful fields of rural North Carolina, Faith will try to rebuild her shattered life, her marriage and her belief in herself....
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