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Author
Series
Golden apple novels volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The hidden tale of the Trojan War: a novel full of passion and revenge, bravery and sacrifice, now is the time for the women of Troy to tell their story.
303) The prestige
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. Two magicians share an intense rivalry with each other and leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy. The rivalry is so intense that is will be full of obsession, deceit and jealousy, with both dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that Robert Angier and Alfred Bordon first met, the two were competitors. However, their once friendly competition evolves into battle for each others...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
x, 132 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, times were desperate. The world found itself at war again, hardly more than twenty years after the First World War had ended - and the stakes were never higher. The leaders of every country involved were left without a choice. They had to try to end the war as fast as possible, using whatever means they could. That meant coming up with secret operations meant to deceive, deflect, and confuse their enemies. ... Readers will be captivated...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 312 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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's nurse.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Passing Strange" is a uniquely American biography of Clarence King, who hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent family: for 13 years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker named James Todd.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times-bestselling author and host of NPR's Hidden Brain comes a counter- intuitive, thought-provoking exploration of deception's role in human success. Everyone agrees that lies and self-deception can do terrible harm to our lives, to our communities, and to the planet. But in Useful Delusions, host of NPR's Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam argues that, paradoxically, deceiving ourselves and others can also play a vital role in human...
312) Containment and credibility: the ideology and deception that plunged America into the Vietnam War
Author
Publisher
Carrel Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Is it possible that a president and his administration would purposefully mislead the American public so that they could commit the United States to a war that is not theirs to fight? Anyone with even a remote memory of the phrase 'weapons of mass destruction' probably finds such a question naive. On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of the Vietnam War, those with longer memories would consider the unquestioning acceptance of Saddam Hussein's 'gathering...
313) Worth the risk
Author
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
472 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays (approximately 12 hr., 7 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is rising. In the end, the three find themselves involved with...
315) The girlfriend
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc
527 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Laura Cavendish can't wait to meet the woman who's won her son's affection. She pictures his new girlfriend, Cherry, becoming a close friend and confidante. But although Cherry is beautiful and amiable, there's something about the possessive way she touches Daniel. Cherry seems to be driving a wedge between mother and son--until one day Daniel is injured in a terrible accident. Six months later, Laura makes a fateful decision--and carries out an astonishing...
316) A guest in the house
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After many lonely years, Abby's just gotten married. She met her new husband--a recently widowed dentist--when he arrived in town with his young daughter, seeking a new start. Although it's strange living in the shadow of her predecessor, Abby does her best to be a good wife and mother. But the more she learns about her new husband's first wife, the more things don't add up. And Abby starts to wonder ... was Sheila's death really by natural causes?...
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fired for marrying his sweetheart Emma instead of his boss's daughter, Hans moves his pregnant wife to Berlin where he gets a job as a salesman. Dismissed for insulting a customer, Hans has only Emma's love to sustain him as he seeks opportunity in a country where work is scarce and the Nazis are rising to power.
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