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2021.
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English
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"On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of beneficent criminals and assassins, along with a bunch...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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While collecting overdue drug money in a rundown Portland, Oregon apartment complex, Hutch Holtz discovers a severed hand in the client's refrigerator and quickly realizes the body part induces uncontrollable madness and violence and sets catastrophic forces into motion.
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
4) Taken
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English
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"Years after being abducted as a teenager and being forced to assist a crime family, Shannon contacts private investigator Matthew Dane for help, desperate for resolution to the mysteries and pain of her past and hoping for the freedom to begin a new life"--
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System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
582 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. Five hundred years later, it's a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel group, long thought dead, is resurfacing. Chatine, a street-savvy thief, will do anything to escape the brutal Regime, including spy on Marcellus, the grandson of the most powerful man on the planet. An officer and the...
6) Megamind
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Over the years, Megamind, has tried to conquer Metro City in every imaginable way. Each attempt, a colossal failure thanks to the caped superhero known as 'Metro Man, ' until the day Megamind actually defeats him in the throes of one of his botched evil plans. Suddenly, the fate of Metro City is threatened when a new villain arrives and chaos runs rampant, leaving everyone to wonder if the world's biggest 'mind' can actually be the one to save the...
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Scarlett and Browne volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgment, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being...
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Matchmakers (Jen Turano) volume 2
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English
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"Miss Adelaide Duveen--society misfit and confirmed spinster--is in danger of being banished from society. Former intelligence agent Gideon Abbott feels responsible for her plight and helps her relaunch into society. But when danger surrounds them and she finds herself a target of the criminals in Gideon's case, can the spark of love between them survive?"--
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Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.--
10) The witness
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English
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When she was 16, brilliant Elizabeth Fitch rebelled and ended up witnessing a double murder involving the Russian mafia. Betrayed by insiders and nearly killed while in the witness protection program, she knew she couldn't trust the police; it was time to disappear. Twelve years later, still avoiding the Russian mob and reinvented as Abigail Lowery, Liz has carved out a quiet, reclusive life as a freelance computer programmer and security systems...
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Cincinnati novels (Karen Rose) volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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FBI Agent Griffin Davenport and his partner, Kate Coppola, get an unexpected lead in their investigation into a human-trafficking case from an eighteen-year-old girl and her younger sister, victims of an illegal adoption.
12) Kajillionaire
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
13) Legend
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Legend (Marie Lu) volume 1
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English
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In a dark future, when North America has split into two warring nations, fifteen-year-olds Day, a famous criminal, and prodigy June, the brilliant soldier hired to capture him, discover that they have a common enemy.
14) Be cool
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Series
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English
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Chili Palmer is ready to move into the recording industry, but his next big singing star may have ties to the mob.
15) 29 seconds
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English
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"Sarah is a young professor struggling to prove herself in a workplace controlled by the charming and manipulative Alan Hawthorne. A renowned scholar and television host, Hawthorne rakes in million-dollar grants for the university where Sarah works--so his inappropriate treatment of female colleagues behind closed doors has gone unchallenged for years. And Sarah is his newest target. When Hawthorne's advances become threatening, Sarah is left with...
16) Fast X
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
17) The godfather
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English
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Don Corleone is ruler of the Family, avenger and dispenser of favors, from judges boughten verdicts to rub-outs among the fiefdoms. The noble Don ages and there is the nagging worry as to who shall carry on. Eldest son Sonny is too impetuous; Freddie is a fornicator; Michael fancies a teaching career with his Yankee bride. Along with the manipulative, diplomatic and skull-smashing demands of the Eastern empire of real estate, manufacturing, and gambling,...
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English
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A prequel to "The Godfather" continues the saga of the Corleone family during the Great Depression, when Vito hides the truth of his occupation from his children and engages in violent measures to secure his family's fortunes at the end of the Prohibition Era.
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English
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In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything -- drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons -- free of the government's watchful eye. It wasn't long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone -- not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
4K Ultra HD.
Physical Desc
4 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays (867 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus Blu-ray.
Language
English
Description
The Godfather : Vito Corleone, the aging patriarch of an organized dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son.
The Godfather, part II: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
The Godfather, part III/The Godfather coda, the death of Michael Corleone: Now in his...
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