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"Set in Washington D.C. in the near future, climate change has hit hard, fires are burning, unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter resourceful young police detective, Jen B. Lu, and her 'partner', Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain and her instant link to the Internet and police records, and constant voice inside her head. He's an inquisitive tough guy, with a helluva sense of humor...
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2021.
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English
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Vince Granata was a thousand miles away when he received the shocking news that would change his life: his younger brother Tim, propelled by unchecked schizophrenia, had killed their mother in their childhood home. Not only devastated by the grief of losing his mother, Vince is consumed by the act itself, so incomprehensible that it overshadows every happy memory of life growing up in a seemingly idyllic middle-class family. In an extraordinary feat...
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As they slept in their North Carolina home, wealthy Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie suffered a vicious assault with a knife and a baseball bat. Bonnie barely survived. Lieth did not. The crime seemed totally baffling until police followed a trail that led to the charming stepson, Chris Pritchard, and his brilliant, drug-using, Dungeons and Dragons–playing friends at North Carolina State University.
Blood Games is the true story of depraved young...
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As the household of NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband Roarke prepares for an invasion of family and friends for Thanksgiving, an ungrateful son decides to stop the nagging from his parents--by ending their lives. Soon Jerald Reinhold is working his way through anyone who has ever thwarted him in his path to an easy life. Eve is increasingly frustrated in her efforts to cover all the potential victims as Jerald stays a terrifying...
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Christmas mysteries (Anne Perry) volume 19
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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First edition.
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188 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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-- “Perry’s Victorian-era holiday mysteries (are) an annual treat.”—The Wall Street Journal After leaving her position with Charlotte and Thomas Pitt to get married, Gracie thought her days as a maid were behind her. But when her good friend’s daughter, Millie, turns up on her doorstep just before the holidays, frantic because things are going missing from the kitchen in the household she serves, Gracie knows she has to find out what is...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
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Widescreen; Unrated cut.
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English
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Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
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611 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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"David Brown was an entrepreneurial computer whiz, making his first million before age thirty-two. His life seemed perfect. But tragedy struck when his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept. Worse, David's teenage daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. The young girl was sentenced to twenty-four years to life, but in the wake of her conviction, two determined lawmen began their own investigation. Soon, the private,...
9) 12 angry men
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MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Collector's edition.
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion? It's a case of seemingly overwhelming evidence against a teenager accused of killing his father.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2008]
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First edition.
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290 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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From the bestselling author of The kiss comes a riveting account of true crime-- the murder of a family in a small Midwestern town-- and the gripping exploration of its haunting aftermath. The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two survivors-- one a convicted murderer, the other suddenly an orphan--to create a new identity, a new...
12) 12 angry men
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MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
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Widescreen format.
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1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Depicts a jury of men who must decide the fate of a teenage boy who has murdered his abusive father. The jurors are from all walks of life, and bring with them their own opinions, prejudices, fears, and personal demons.
13) 12 angry men
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Criterion collection volume 591
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Two-DVD special ed.
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2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (in container).
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English
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A jury of white men is ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. However, one juror forces the others to consider whether the evidence--or the jurors' own prejudices--influences their deliberations. The story plays out in real time over ninety minutes in one sweltering room.
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BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
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339 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case-and the source material for NBC's Law and Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders.
A successful entertainment executive making $2 million a year. His former beauty queen wife. Their two sons on the fast track to success. Until tragedy struck.
Married for twenty-six years, Jose and Kitty Menendez appeared to be a happy couple and proud parents. Twenty-one-year-old Lyle Menendez was enrolled at...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"The story of Brian Bechtold, who killed his parents in 1992 at the age of twenty-two. Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction-when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on"--
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Nhà xuất bản Văn học Dân Trí - Đông A,Tsai Fong Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
998 pages ; 24 cm.
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Vietnamese
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Anh em nhà Karamazov, tác phẩm cuối cùng của Dostoevsky, chính là kiệt tác vĩ đại nhất mà ông để lại cho hậu thế sau hơn bốn chục năm miệt mài lao động văn học. Bằng ngòi bút thiên tài của mình, Dostoevsky đã phản ánh tình trạng hỗn loạn xã hội của nước Nga nửa sau thế kỷ 19 qua sự tan rã và những bi kịch trong nhà Karamazov, cùng với đó là cuộc “tìm...
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
[DVD version]
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The tyrannical patriarch of a dysfunctional but wealthy family summons his adult children for a Christmas reunion, but prior to the holiday his throat is slashed apparently by one of them.
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