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1) Misery
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English
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The novel's narrative is based on the relationship of its two main characters -- the popular writer Paul Sheldon and his psychotic fan Annie Wilkes. When Paul is seriously injured following a car accident, former nurse Annie brings him to her home, where Paul receives treatment and doses of pain medication. Gradually, Paul realizes that he is a prisoner and is forced to indulge his captor's whims.
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Charles Vincent is trapped in a loveless marriage, and his job is simply a paycheck. One night on the Normandy coast he falls asleep at the wheel and veers off the road and down the cliff. Miraculously surviving, he walks to a cabin where he meets Aude Saint-Martin. As she nurses him back to health, Charles discovers the passion his life has been missing-- and realizes he could walk away from his old life. But Aude has secrets of her own. As their...
3) Signal fires
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English
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"Signal Fires opens on a summer night in 1985. Three teenagers have been drinking. One of them gets behind the wheel of a car, and, in an instant, everything on Division Street changes. Each of their lives, and that of Ben Wilf, a young doctor who arrives on the scene, is shattered. For the Wilf family, the circumstances of that fatal accident will become the deepest kind of secret, one so dangerous it can never be spoken. On Division Street, time...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school trip crashed into a Tennessee ravine--a tragedy that claimed the lives of multiple classmates and teachers. The nine students who escaped the river were irrevocably changed. A year later, after one of the survivors dies by suicide, the rest of them make a pact to come together each year to commemorate that terrible night. When they reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of the tragic...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one, full of family trips to the beach and long afternoons at the local pool with her older sister Kathy, which they mostly use as an excuse to ogle Billy Barnes, who works the concession stand there. Their fascination with him is one of the few things the increasingly different sisters have in common. By summer's end Billy and Kathy are an item-an unthinkable...
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From the internationally bestselling author of Into Temptation comes "the perfect beach read" (Parade) about how everything can change in the blink of an eye....
On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn...
On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn...
8) Age of vice
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English
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New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story...
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English
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"In this twisty new stand-alone novel from internationally bestselling author Nicci French, a young woman agrees to do a favor for her first love--but when things go horribly wrong, one small task turns into a murder investigation that completely upends her life, ensnaring her in a deadly web of secrets and lies. It's a simple enough favor. Jude hasn't seen Liam in years, but when he shows up at her work asking for a favor, she finds she can't refuse....
10) License to kill
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
A daughter is killed in a car crash by a drunk driver and the family is outraged at all delays in bringing the case to trial. The judge is forced to rule for the defense and it appears the driver might escape punishment all together.
11) The other widow
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English
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Joe ends his affair with Dorrie just moments before their car skids off an icy road in a blinding snowstorm and hits a tree. Desperate to keep her life intact, she walks away from the wreckage... and now someone is calling on her dead lover's burner phone.... Karen knew her husband Joe was cheating, but now she has a fear that someone is watching her... is she paranoid? Insurance investigator Maggie Devlin is suspicious-- Joe died shortly after buying...
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Series
Indiana cousins volume 2
Language
English
Description
Traumatized after surviving an automobile accident in which her boyfriend was killed, Katie Miller struggles to find her way out of depression, while Freeman Bontrager tries to gain Katie's trust in hopes of winning her heart.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Three Women Disappear: Three female suspects in the murder of an accountant, who was a master manipulator, go missing. Detective Sean Walsh, who has a personal connection to the case, discovers why the women have to stay hidden from the law-- and each other.
Come and Get Us: Miranda Cooper's life takes a terrifying turn when an SUV deliberately runs her and her husband off a desolate Arizona road. With her husband badly wounded, she must run for...
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"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...
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One day Tom Krupp returns home to find his wife, Karen, has vanished. Her car's gone; her purse, phone and ID left behind. The police arrive, and take Tom to a hospital where Karen has been admitted: she lost control as she sped through the worst part of town. Karen has a concussion and a few scrapes-- and she can't remember what she was doing or where she was when she crashed. When she returns home something is not quite right. It seems there's a...
17) Collision
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a major accident leaves two dead, two critically wounded, and the surviving victims' lives changed forever, the father of one of the victims files a suit against the police department. Detective Inspector John Tolin must come to terms with his own past, and with his partner in the investigation if he has any hope of untangling the carnage, and understanding what caused the accident that threw so many lives together.
18) Darwin's blade
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English
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Darwin Minor is an expert in accident reconstruction, but a series of seemingly random, or artfully staged, fatal car wrecks has him puzzled. Why would anyone commit fraud at the cost of his own life?
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Ellie Falkner's world has been destroyed. Her husband, Greg, died in a car crash--and he wasn't alone. In the passenger seat was the body of Milena Livingstone, a woman Ellie's never heard of. But Ellie refuses to leap to the obvious conclusion, despite the whispers and suspicions of those around her. Maybe it's the grief, but Ellie has to find out who this woman was--and prove Greg wasn't having an affair. And soon she is chillingly certain their...
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