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"Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team. Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins. Nate's focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means...
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"The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start...
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"California, 1938--When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser's daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert's spacious house with a secret, however--Rosie sees colors when she hears sound. She promised her mother she'd never reveal her little-understood ability to anyone, but the weight of her isolation and grief proves too...
4) Odder
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2022.
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her." -- Provided by publisher.
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Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's hesitation, Meredith invites her stunned and shaken neighbors...
6) The chase
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In 1906 detective Isaac Bell goes after the Butcher Bandit who has committed a string of bank robberies and murders in the western states of America and becomes the hunted.
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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"Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl is badly injured left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
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"Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling case of altruism gone wrong. On a superficially lovely morning a woman shows up for work with her usual enthusiasm. She's the newly hired personal assistant to a handsome,...
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"Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go-Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it's the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she's twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Another band getting noticed is The Six, led by the brooding Billy Dunne....
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2012
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Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....
12) 11th hour
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2012
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When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. Then she's called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor.
13) Lucky Leap Day
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"A whirlwind trip to Ireland is supposed to end with a suitcase full of wool sweaters and souvenir pint glasses, not a husband you only just met! But after one too many whiskeys, fledgling screenwriter Cara Kennedy takes a page out of someone else's script when she gets caught up in the Irish tradition of women proposing on Leap Day. Waking the next morning with a hot guy in her bed and a tin foil ring on her finger was definitely not what she expected...and...
14) The gatekeeper
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"A highly trained team of mercenaries launches a well-planned, coordinated attack on a well-guarded military contractor--but they didn't count on one thing, the right man being in the wrong place at the right time. Desmond Aloysius Limerick ('Dez' to all) is a retired mercenary, and enthusiastic amateur musician, currently in Southern California, enjoying the sun and sitting in on the occasional gig, when the hotel he's at falls under attack. A skilled...
15) The holiday
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2007
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Widescreen ver.
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1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. They live six thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris is still in love with her ex who is marrying another. They both come upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget...
16) Ambulance
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Collector's edition.
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
17) Chasing secrets
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San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors...
18) Blink of an eye
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2007
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383 pages ; 22cm
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The future changes in the blink of an eye . . . or does it? Miriam is a Saudi princess promised to another, a pawn in a political struggle that could shift the balance of power in the Middle East. Seth is a certified genius with a head full of numbers, a life full of baggage, and an attitude born on the waves of the Pacific. Cultures collide when they find themselves thrown together as fugitives in a high-stakes chase across Southern California....
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Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
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6 videodiscs (approximately 1027 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Agents "G" Callen and Sam Hanna lead their team of high-caliber operatives, including Special Agent Kensi Blye, LAPD liaison Marty Deeks, tech wizard Eric Beale, and intelligence analyst Nell Jones. This season, the team mobilizes to protect beloved Operations Manager Hetty Lange from a lethal Cold War enemy, even as they're being investigated by the Department of Justice.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Widescreen version.
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6 videodiscs (1012 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The action and suspense ramp up for Special Agents G. Callen, Sam Hanna, and their elite team of operatives. Big changes are on deck for LA's homeland heroes as Special Agent Kensi Blye and LAPD liaison Marty Deeks tie the knot, tech geniuses Eric and Nell contemplate their futures, and Hetty's mysterious disappearance ends. This season also has the team protecting a Saudi prince, becoming the target of a vicious cartel, and joining with the FBI to...