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61) A dark song
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An unholy alliance between two damaged souls leads them on a disturbing descent into the depraved realms of black magic. Sophia is a grieving mother desperate to make contact with her murdered son. Joseph is an anti-social, alcoholic expert in the occult who reluctantly agrees to help her. Holed up in a remote house amidst the desolate wilds of Northern Wales, the two embark on a grueling six-month series of dark rituals that will push them both to...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
63) Di 43 ge mi mi
Author
Series
Lian pu xiao shuo xuan xi lie volume 83
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tranditional Chinese edition of THE WOODS
紐約時報》在榜21週、翻譯30多種語言、全球發行近5000萬冊、20多家圖書俱樂部共同推薦、14部影視作品熱烈改編的暢銷作者 哈蘭.科本驚悚小說代表作、Netflix改編同名迷你影集,廣獲好評。 真正傷人的不是祕密, 而是藏不好的祕密…… 原來,愛一個人竟能如此不擇手段 我對老爸最鮮明的記憶,就是他在森林揮動鏟子,淚流滿面、怒不可遏地掘土。...
64) Taking eve
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her child's disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the north Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box. The two join to protect humanity from destruction by an alien race, the Laz, hell-bent on regaining control over the Silver Box, the most destructive and powerful tool in the universe. The Silver Box will stop at nothing to prevent its former master from returning to being, even if it means finishing the earth itself.
69) Anything for you
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On a hot summer night, a watchful neighbor locks eyes with an intruder and unwittingly alerts the police to a vicious crime scene next door: a lavish master bedroom where a man lies dead. Next to him, his wife is bleeding out onto the hardwood floor, clinging to life. The victim, Adam Grant, was a well-known San Francisco prosecutor--a man whose connection to Homicide detective Valerie Hart brings her face-to-face with a life she's long since left...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away ...' Our brains stay active for ten minutes after our heart stops beating. For Tequila Leila, each minute brings with it a new memory - growing up with her father and his two wives in...
Author
Series
Chicago saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister's body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he's looking for payment he's owed from her. Lauren's torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
That's the narrative told by the Times, movies, TV programs, and countless psychology textbooks. But as award-winning author Kevin Cook reveals, the Genovese story is just that, a story. The truth is far more compelling--and so is the victim. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of her murder, Cook presents the real Kitty Genovese. She was a vibrant young woman--unbeknownst to most, a lesbian--a bartender working (and dancing) her way through the colorful,...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Mike Sullivan is a mob hitman and a loving, devoted father. When his son witnesses a killing, another hitman is sent to kill Mike and his family. With his wife and one son dead, Mike and his other son are out for revenge. Set in Depression-era Chicago. Includes deleted scenes, commentary, trailers, and more.
75) Patience
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jack, torn apart by the mysterious murder of his wife, Patience, flings himself back and forth through time to discover and punish the real culprit. Not everything is at it seems, however-- not even his beloved wife.
76) Fire on the levee: the murder of Henry Glover and the search for justice after Hurricane Katrina
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize-- a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth about this man. Does he really have dementia? Is he a murderer?...
78) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
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