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81) Nightmare Alley
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a manipulative carnival man teams with an equally deceptive psychiatrist to grift the wealthy in 1940s New York society, he learns that his new partner in crime might be his most formidable opponent yet.
"The sinister carnival sideshow look is alluring, a perfect match for subversive del Toro. A long list of major stars are doing exciting work."--New York Post.
"An ultra-vivid horror-noir from master filmmaker Guillermo del Toro."--Newsday.
"That...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.
"Tom Ford hits it out of the park with a stunning film noir that resonates with ghostly, poetic terror."--Rolling Stone.
"It's a tale bluntly told that arouses intense, eveanescent emotion and then leaves you haunted, long afterward..."--Washington Post.
"The movie's lofty narrative ambitions never quite catch...
Author
Series
One of Us Is Lying volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR, KAREN McMANUS "Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club" (EW.com) in this "flat-out addictive" (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the...
85) Sky masters
Author
Series
McLanahan volume 3
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
510 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A confrontation between the U.S and China threatens to erupt into all-out war. As the U.S. withdraws from the Philippines, China slips in to fill the power vacuum and lays claim to tiny, uninhabitable oil-rich islands in the South China Sea. The Philippines also claim the islands, so China's navy decimates a Philippine drilling platform when its occupants refuse to knuckle under. A shooting war ensues, bringing America into the fray. The U.S. Air...
86) Absolute power
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unlikely witness threatens a high-level government cover-up--orchestrated by the Secret Service and a ruthlessly loyal White House chief-of-staff--of a brutal murder involving the president and his mistress
Author
Series
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Private Investigator Roland Ford has taken a job for a fellow Marine and a rising politician, Dalton Strait. Strait is contending with unexplained bombings of government buildings in his district...but that is not why he hired Ford. Strait's wife, Natalie, has gone missing, leaving behind a cryptic plea for help. Strait has made many enemies during his time in politics - including some of his own family members - all of whom could be looking for...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
89) The covenant
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story follows Sgt. John Kinley, who is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan when is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed to survey the region. When their unit is ambushed on patrol, Kinley and Ahmed are the only survivors and with enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Back on U.S. soil, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given passage to America...
90) Capone
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Al "Fonzo" Capone is a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who once ruled Chicago with an iron fist. In an effort to retain his fortune, he hides away millions of dollars in a place that only he knows and everyone else is dying to uncover. In this harrowing and true untold story of his life. Capone will stop at nothing to protect himself, his family and his money.
91) The winner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten years after being framed for murder to force her into participating in a crooked lottery scam, a now wealthy LuAnn Tyler struggles to live a normal life as she finds herself caught between an FBI investigation and a ruthless man from her past, who will stop at nothing to silence her
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mystery volume 18
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Aurora is a small town nestled in the ancient forest alongside the shores of Minnesota's Iron Lake. In the summer of 1963, it is the whole world to twelve-year-old Cork O'Connor, its rhythms as familiar as his own heartbeat. But when Cork stumbles upon the body of a man he revered hanging from a tree in an abandoned logging camp, it is the first in a series of events that will cause him to question everything he took for granted about his hometown,...
93) Storming heaven
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
1994, 2003
Physical Desc
14 CDs (15.75 hr.)
Language
English
Description
The United States is under siege by a terrorist vowing revenge for the abuse he suffered at the hands of Air Force MPs as a youth. The supervillain launches a full-on attack to destroy the country by blowing up airports and threatening the Capitol. As the US military scrambles to predict his next move, a retired Coast Guard admiral wades through bureaucratic dysfunction to advise the government on how to outwit the madman and prevent more death and...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
95) Last night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During a blizzard in Rhode Island, a renowned artist is found murdered and her young daughter gone missing, plunging Detective Conor Reid, his brother Tom and the woman's grieving sister into a chilling investigation"--
96) The Great Wall
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
"...The Great Wall is absolutely dazzling."--Village Voice
"Simultaneously futuristic and historic, the visual spectacle carries the film, while Zhang manages to include plenty of promised 'Chinese elements'..."--Guardian
97) The danger
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a string of kidnappings rocks the horse racing world, Andrew Douglas is brought in to recover the missing-without becoming the next victim.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Number one New York Times best-selling author and Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark never falters to thrill her readers and keep them on the edge of their seats. The Washington Post calls her "a born storyteller." When they graduate from college, best friends Erin and Darcy move to New York to pursue their careers. But then Erin goes missing after placing a personal ad in a magazine. Now Darcy fears that she may be next.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
100) The maze runner
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape. Based upon the best-selling novel by James Dashner.
"...refreshingly low-tech and properly story-driven..."--Variety.
"Consistently...