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Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she's still a prime target on the black market. There's only one way to keep herself safe. Nita must make herself so feared that no one would ever dare come after her again. And the best way to start...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Nikhil 'Nic' Joshi had it all--marriage, career, purpose. Until, while working for Doctors Without Borders in a Mumbai slum, his wife, Jen, discovered a black market organ transplant ring. Before she could expose the truth, Jen was killed. Two years after the tragedy, Nic is a cruise ship doctor who spends his days treating seasickness and sunburn and his nights in a boozy haze. On one of those blurry evenings on deck, Nic meets a woman who makes...
4) After
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters, and after Nita dissects and packages them, she sells them online. But when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she herself is sold on the black market in its place.--
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nita finally has Fabricio, the boy who betrayed her to the black market, within her grasp. Then she learns that proof her friend Kovit is a zannie-- a monster who eats pain in order to survive-- has been leaked to the International Non-Human Police, Nita must re-evaluate her plans. Nita and Kovit take on the most dangerous man in the world: Fabricio's father. They force Fabricio to help them steal the secrets that could destroy the black market. But...
7) Invictus
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past. During a routine heist on the sinking Titanic, Far...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
Author
Series
Bollywood volume 4
Language
English
Description
Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
10) Free fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
12) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Maltese
Description
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.
Publisher
Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.
15) Painted lady
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
Series
Publisher
Twilight Time
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Limited edition of 3,000 units.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (6 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm).
Language
日本語
Description
An admirably upright yakuza returns from World War II to find his hometown destroyed. While helping to rebuild, he is enlisted in a fight against a savage gang whose members fail to share his ideas about chivalry and honor.
18) 10,000 bones
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's Commerce Board has struggled to negotiate importation quotas to keep the population alive and growing. Taryn Dare is a Collections Agent, a specialized detective tasked...
19) Refraction
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After an attack on earth, all reflective surfaces become weapons to release monsters, causing a planet-wide ban on mirrors. Despite the danger, the demand rises, and 17-year-old Marty Callahan becomes a distributor in an illegal mirror trade--until he's caught by the mayor's son, whose slate is far from clean. Both of them are exiled for their crimes to one of the many abandoned cities overrun by fog. But they soon realize their thoughts influence...
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