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1) Milkman
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister is our protagonist. She is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her nearly-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman (which for the life of her, she cannot work out how it came about). But when first brother-in-law, who of course had sniffed it out, told his wife, her first sister, to tell her mother to come and have a talk with her,...
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Within these pages you'll find myriad approaches to Alice, from horror to historical, taking us from nightmarish reaches of the imagination to tales that will shock, surprise, and tug on the heart-strings. So it's time now to go down the rabbit hole, or through the looking-glass or ... But no, wait. By picking up this book and starting to read it you're already there, can't you see?"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Description
The story begins with Frank and Joe Hardy barely avoiding being hit by a speeding driver whom they notice has bright red hair. Later, this same red-haired driver attempts a ferryboat ticket office robbery and successfully steals a yellow jalopy called Queen from the Hardys' friend, Chet Morton. Due to one witness reporting that the villain had dark hair, the Hardys assume he is using a red wig. It is learned that the thief returned to Chet's home...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reclusive author Loretta Sage writes about exotic places in her popular adventure novels that feature a handsome cover model named Alan. While on tour promoting her new book with Alan, Loretta gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who hopes she can lead him to an ancient city's lost treasure from her latest story. Determined to prove he can be a hero in real life and not just on the pages of her books, Alan sets off to rescue her.
5) The curator
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Searching for the truth behind the secret she's long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn't at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half;...
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"F. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime battling demons - alcohol and a schizophrenic wife - yet, he wrote some of the greatest novels in American literature. Despite a tumultouous relationship with his mistress, an ailing wife, declining health, and daily drinking binges, Fitzgerald secretly wrote a scathing novel about the film industry which some call his best work. It was his final triumph."--Insert.
7) The public
Publisher
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Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. Soon the police arrive and a stand-off threatens to bring tragedy to the homeless individuals and those who care about their well-being. An eye-opening exploration of the basic...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah has abandoned everything-her trajectory as a law student, her childhood home and caring for her ill mother-for the chance to work with the Innocence Project, a prestigious coalition of investigators who fight to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Hannah's ambitions are set on the program's highest-stakes case in years: a convicted rapist and murderer on death row. She'll do anything-whatever it takes-to work on this case. Because Hannah has...
9) The Punisher
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Punisher walks through the same world we all know, a world darkened by war, by crime, by cruelty, and by injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees all around him. He only has his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience and, above all, his ironclad determination to avenge those wronged by society's villians, including those who killed his family.
Publisher
ITV Studios, Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital, a world in which everything and everyone has their place. But underneath this veneer simmers a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Breathless opens in 1961, a time when Britain was on the brink of the '60s revolution, abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just available to married women.
11) First cow
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A loner and cook has traveled west and joined a group of fur trappers in Oregon Territory, though he only finds a connection with Chinese immigrants. The men collaborate on business, although its longevity is reliant upon the participation of a wealthy landowner's prized milking cow.
13) Short term 12
Publisher
Distributed by Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Grace [is] a twenty-something supervisor at a group home for troubled teens. She's passionate, tough and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason ... But Grace's difficult past, her fierce independence--and the arrival of a distraught new girl at the facility--create complications that push Grace and Mason to the brink. How this couple overcomes those challenges is what makes this film an entirely unique love story. Grace and Mason...
15) Hold the sunset
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After Earth is torn apart by religious differences and the human race teeters on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Raised by Wolves follows Mother and Father as they attempt to raise human children in this mysterious virgin land, a treacherous and difficult task that's jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply...
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