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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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English
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Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
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Breakfast With Buddha volume 3
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English
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4 stars
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“We, like Otto, find our cynicism worn away by Rinpoche’s gentle instruction in the simple but terribly difficult art of letting go, living each moment to the fullest, seeing the sacred in the everyday . . . This brave, meditative author has carved a unique niche in American literature.” —Kirkus Reviews starred review
If life is a journey—with detours, paths from which to choose, and myriad...
If life is a journey—with detours, paths from which to choose, and myriad...
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Sherlock Holmes volume 7
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English
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4 stars
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Step into the captivating world of "The Valley of Fear," a thrilling masterpiece by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on an unforgettable journey into the heart of mystery and intrigue. Published in 1915, this novel is a riveting addition to the iconic detective series, offering a perfect blend of suspense, deduction, and rich storytelling. Picture yourself immersed in the atmospheric landscapes of the American coalfields...
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Father Brown volume 2
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English
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Criminals beware - there is no eluding the extraordinary mind of Father Brown Dr. Orion Hood is one of the eminent thinkers of his day, a psychologist whose expert opinion on human nature is sometimes sought by the police. Usually, he is called on to solve only the most spectacular crimes - a nobleman murdered, a diplomat poisoned - but today a more ordinary problem presents itself. An amiable little priest named Father Brown asks Dr. Hood to help...
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770L
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English
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Arthur Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four is the second novel in the Sherlock Holmes series, following the enormously successful novel A Study In Scarlet. With the mysterious disappearance of a British Indian army officer, a one-legged hooligan, a stolen treasure, and a nefarious pact between four con-men, this novel of revenge and love is an exquisite classic of crime fiction. In the infamous opening of the novel, Dr. Watson finds Sherlock Holmes in...
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English
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From the first decade of our century into the 1950's, she was the Mary Higgins Clark of her day, a mystery writer of enormous popularity. Now B-O-T has re-recorded one of the classic novels that made Mary Roberts Rinehart a household name. Lawrence Blakely, attorney-at-law, sets off by train to deliver valuable documents in a criminal case. His ride will be eventful. Along the way he'll encounter romance, treachery, a train wreck, even a murder in...
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To find a missing archaeologist, Dr. Thorndyke digs for a body After the great success of his latest expedition, the brilliant archaeologist John Bellingham returns from the sandy tombs of Egypt with enough ancient treasures to fill a wing at the British Museum. He visits a friend for dinner and is told to wait in the study. When the friend arrives, he finds the study empty; Bellingham has vanished into thin air. When Bellingham does not reappear,...
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A fascinating installment in R. Austin Freeman's classic mystery series featuring forensic detective Dr. John Thorndyke A man falls gravely ill, but is reluctant to call a doctor. As his condition worsens, he is eventually forced to seek medical aid-but he does so only under the condition that the physician does not learn his identity or address. Dr. Jervis is therefore transported to the man's home in a 4-wheeled cab with tightly closed shutters....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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"Darkly funny stories by the man David Sedaris calls "the most outlandish and energetic writer I can think of." Paddling down a remote, meandering river, Georgie's friend Otto decides to do something both spectacular and stupid: He scales a sandy cliffthat rises from the water and runs down its steep face, preparing for a triumphant running dive. As his friends look on, they watch something awful unfold: Otto lands with an odd smack and knocks himself...
11. The cask
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The Cask by Freeman Wills Crofts is a classic detective novel that helped establish the genre of the meticulously plotted mystery. The story begins with an unusual discovery: a cask, shipped from France to England, is accidentally opened at a London warehouse, revealing a shocking secret - inside is a set of jewels and the body of a murdered woman. Inspector Burnley of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate, and he embarks on a complex journey...
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Pinkerton sends an agent to catch a thief on the Southern railway In the build-up to the Civil War, Montgomery is a thriving town-a local capital grown rich on cotton and the railroad. When $10,000 disappears from the railroad, suspicion falls on a clerk named Maroney, an upstanding citizen whose only vice is a love of horseracing. The railroad hires the South's best detectives to tail Maroney, looking for a clue as to where the money has gone, but...
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"The offices of foreign literature publisher and renowned stamp collector Donald Kirk are often host to strange activities, but the most recent occurrencethe murder of an unknown caller, found dead in an empty waiting roomis unlike any that has come before. Nobody, it seems, entered or exited the room, and yet the crime scene clearly has been manipulated, leaving everything in the room turned backwards and upside down. Stuck through the back of the...
14. Parallel lies
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Penzler Pick, June 2001: Ridley Pearson, who has written 14 previous books, many of them featuring his Seattle cop Lou Boldt, ups the ante in his latest thriller. Northern Union Railroad has been experiencing a series of accidents with their freight trains, but it is not until they find a freight car covered with blood that they call in outside help. Peter Tyler used to be a cop, until he nearly beat a black man to death and lost his badge. When he...
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Marvel Entertainment
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English
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Collects Spider-Man/Deadpool #1-5, 8. Now THIS is what you call a dynamic duo! When the Webbed Wonder and the Merc with a Mouth find themselves in a tight spot, hijinks and hilarity ensue! Spidey isn't looking for new friends in his neighborhood, but Deadpool's going all out in the name of bromance. Will this turn out to be a buddy book, or will the identity of Deadpool's next target - he's just a guy named Peter Parker - ruin everything?! With another...
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Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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What do you do when you've buried four husbands and not yet found a fifth? Wealthy Lady Bumstead takes a cruise down the Mekong in Vietnam with a hired female companion, Anne de Tonkin. Annie is not just a kind old lady, she is a brilliant listener and soon knows all about the other travellers. But, on the last day of the cruise she is murdered. Lady Bumstead, unable to see any reason why Annie should be murdered, is convinced the killer was after...
17. The Kill Call
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On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous 999 caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.Called in to investigate the discovery, E Division detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade.As Fry follows a complex trail of...
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'Arsène Lupin has taken his place in public estimation with Sherlock Holmes and other universally admired heroes of fictional crime.' - The New York Times When one of Lupin's victims, a millionaire diamond collector, turns up dead in a Paris hotel room, the gentleman thief becomes the prime suspect. Determined to prove his innocence, he begins to search for the real killer. The criminal-turned-detective uncovers a number of mysterious clues, including...
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Marvel Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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Spidey superstars Dan Slott and Mark Bagley continue their Superior saga! Supernova is the living embodiment of Otto Octavius' life's work, and she wants him dead. Anna Maria Marconi is the woman he loves but who will never love him back. When her life hangs in the balance, can Ock save her? Can he save himself? This isn't a job for a hero or a villain. This situation calls for something far ! And the final showdown will determine once and for all...
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that covers ideas in his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra but with a more polemical approach. It was first published in 1886 under the publishing house C. G. Naumann of Leipzig at the author's own expense and first translated into English by Helen Zimmern, who was two years younger than Nietzsche and knew the author. According to translator...