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662) Goldfish
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After years away, con man David Gold returns to the city he once called home and finds nothing as it was. But the man known as "Goldfish" has come back for one reason, and one reason only: his son. This enigmatic grifter returns to his old haunts to find his old flame practically running the city's underbelly. His oldest friend and ex-partner in crime a police detective. The town itself seems to have turned on him. With everything going against him,...
663) Scarlet Street
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. One rainy night, he rescues the delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, Kitty lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name, with disastrous and ironic results.--
664) The curse workers
Author
Series
Curse workers ; 1-3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of curse workers, people who have the power to change emotions, memories, and luck with the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're also all criminals. Many become mobsters and con artists, but not Cassel. He doesn't have magic, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family--except for the small detail that he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Aloha: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs, the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
The midnight meat train: Struggling photographer Leon Kauffman's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late-night commuters, ultimately butchering...
666) Frío como el acero
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Oliver Stone y los demás miembros del Camel Club -- un grupo de ex agentes de la CIA dispuestos a no dejar impunes los crímenes perpetrados por los servicios de inteligencia -- se enfrentan a una peligrosa aventura con dos frentes abiertos.
Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts.
667) An education
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her."
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Frank Partnoy delivers a thrilling history lesson about an era and a nearly century-old Wall Street scandal rooted in unscrupulous investment banking and derivative hedge funds techniques developed by one man--Ivar Kreuger. Kreuger made his fortune in the 1920s by raising money from American investors to lend to European governments in exchange for match monopolies. Then he suddenly committed suicide in 1932. As his fraudulent schemes unraveled in...
670) Stella stands alone
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Prince plays Christopher Tracy, an American musician living on the French Riviera and on the bank accounts of bored divorcees. The money is good but not good enough, so Christopher sets out to woo and marry a lovely young heiress. But he didn't count on confronting the heiress' enraged father, or falling in love.
672) Alfred Hitchcock
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Sabotage: Karl Verlok leads a secret life as a paid terrorist which leads undercover agent Ted Spencer to move in next door to Verlok and his wife Sylvia. Feeling that something's up, Verlok sends Sylvia's younger brother to deliver something for him, only the young man doesn't know he's delivering a time-bomb.
The man who knew too much: This classic Hitchcock thriller brings together vacationing English couple Bob and Jill Lawrence and their new...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lord of war: Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He is relentlessly pursued by a determined federal agent and his inner demons sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Face/off: FBI Special Agent Sean Archer...
674) Fallen Grace
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, impoverished fifteen-year-old orphan Grace takes care of her older but mentally unfit sister Lily, and after enduring many harsh and painful experiences, the two become the victims of a fraud perpetrated by the wealthy owners of several funeral businesses.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A sordid tale of bigamy, bribery, sex, and violence, set in the Gilded Age, explores the ill-fated saga of Ray, an Alexander Hamilton heir, and his wife, a con artist who tricked him into marriage using an abandoned infant, and who went to prison for stabbing their baby nurse."--
Publisher
Newport Public Library
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
Slap shot: The coach of a third-rate hockey team signs up some rough and tough players...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the story of the West's most likeable outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they set out for Bolivia with the law on their heels.
The French connection: Two New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile being shipped from France.
The Hustler: An amoral, arrogant pool hustler who haunts backroom...
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