Joe Mantegna
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A Spenser novel volume 46
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English
Description
Boston PI Spenser and right hand Hawk follow a con man's trail of smoke and mirrors in the latest entry of the iconic crime series. After conning everyone from the cable news shows to the local cops, it looks like the grifter's latest double cross may be his last. Connie Kelly thought she'd found her perfect man on an online dating site. He was silver-haired and handsome, with a mysterious background working for the C.I.A. She fell so hard for M....
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English
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Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie...
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English
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Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 48
Language
English
Description
"Gabby Leggett left her Boston family with big dreams of making it as a model/actress in Hollywood. Two years later, she disappears from her apartment. Her family, former boyfriend, friends - and the police - have no idea where she is and no leads. Leggett's mother hires Spenser to find her, with help of his former apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, now an L.A. private eye. Spenser barely has time to unpack before the trail leads to a powerful movie studio...
25) 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,...
26) The Rat Pack
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, known as "The Rat Pack", set the style and the pace for 1950s America. But when President Kennedy, newly elected with the support of the Pack, is advised that the friends who made him shouldn't be the friends he keeps, the Rat Pack discovers that lady luck has chosen another partner.
27) Liberty Heights
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The town is Baltimore and the year is 1954, a season of dramatic social flux that Levinson explores through the eyes of a Jewish family.
28) Bugsy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Extended cut.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 149 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a brilliant and violent gangster who leaves behind his criminal empire in New York to run the powerful rackets in Los Angeles. But his tumultuous affair with a Hollywood starlet inspires him to build something even bigger than his growing infamy. By doing this, he enrages his criminal backers. Bugsy will go to any length to see his dream realized, even if it costs him his life.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again. But with her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1,023 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most prominent agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations...
31) Forget Paris
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An NBA referee and an airline rep think they've found happiness together, until they meet each other's family and friends.
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 16 hr., 17 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most prominent agent is David Rossi, a founding memeber of the BAU, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations...
33) Redbelt
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A jujitsu master becomes corrupted by the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (18 hr., 27 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Behavioral Analysis Unit's founding member Agent David Rossi returns with his elite team of FBI profilers to stop the country's most twisted criminal minds before they strike again.
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 860 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Legendary profiler David Rossi joins the team, as they struggle with their toughest cases and their own demons. As Hotch goes through a divorce, Reid deals with painful memories of this past. Morgan may joke with computer whiz Garcia, but it's no laughing matter when she is shot. And even Prentiss considers resigning, as "JJ" experiences the emotion stress of her job.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,018 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) knows no boundaries when it comes to tracking down ruthless and unpredictable killers. Unit chief Aaron Hotchner (Thomas Gibson) and Special Agents David Rossi (Joe Mantegna), Alex Blake (Jeanne Tripplehorn), Dr. Spencer Reid (Matthew Gray Gubler), Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) and Jennifer "JJ" Jareau (A.J. Cook) use the scientific art of profiling and psychological tactics to solve the FBI's most extreme and violent...
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 1,022 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) profile uncatchable crooks responsible for unthinkable crimes. Team leader Aaron Hotchner and profiling expert David Rossi face a deadly challenge when a new case threatens one of their own. Special Agent Emily Prentiss takes on an enemy from her past in a game of cat-and-mouse, and nothing will ever be the same. Features 24 thrillingly suspenseful episodes, plus deleted scenes, featurettes, a gag...
38) House of games
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English
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A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (approximately 971 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To solve the most twisted crimes, the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) explores the darkest places--inside the depths of Criminal Minds. Seasoned undercover, FBI Agent Kate Callahan joins the elite team led by Supervisory Special Agent Aaron Hotchner as they pursue a serial killer who hacks his victims beyond all recognition. Experienced profiler David Rossi is dogged by mysterious woman from his past, while Dr. Spencer Reid grapples with the...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (1,014 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit's most prominent agent is David Rossi, a founding member of the BAU, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations...