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261) The condemned
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is 'purchased' by a TV producer and taken to a desolate island for a fight to the death against nine other condemned killers, with freedom to the sole survivor.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Prenguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Vintage Crime / Black Lizard edition.
Physical Desc
97 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Joe has witnessed things that cannot be erased. A former FBI agent and Marine, his abusive childhood has left him damaged beyond repair. He has completely withdrawn from the world and earns his living rescuing girls who have been kidnapped into the sex trade. When he's hired to save the daughter of a corrupt New York senator held captive at a Manhattan brothel, he stumbles into a dangerous web of conspiracy, and he pays the price. As Joe's small web...
264) Nothing but trouble
Author
Publisher
Sigma's Bookshelf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pharmaceutical CEO Wilbur Watson is in a race against time. He must find a test subject, and fast, for a hastily developed cure for cancer. It is just what he needs to save his company, Helix Remedies, which has been plagued with problems. Meantime, Kyle Maxon has been in and out of hospitals more times than he cares to remember. He was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 7. Now 16, he has come to terms with the knowledge that he is probably going...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
xiii, 374 pages : illustrations photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes of the 2000 Huskies' Cinderella story to discover a timeless morality tale about the price of obsession, the creep of fanaticism, and the ways in which a community can lose even when its team wins.
266) Run: a novel
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marc Bowman is an in-demand hired gun, a computer consultant for AmeriTel, the huge technical corporation where his wife Carolyn happens to work as a high-powered executive. Then, one morning, AmeriTel unceremoniously fires Marc with no notice and no cause. Furious, Marc turns to Carolyn for an explanation--and is stunned when she sides with her employer. Suddenly, things are happening in Marc's life that he can't explain; strange men are following...
267) La tapadera
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1a ed. en esta colección.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 18 cm
Language
Español
268) Get hard
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A millionaire is pegged for fraud and sentenced to time in prison. He turns to a criminal friend to help him prepare to go.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as 'Crazy Eddie,' whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time. Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar, 'Crazy Eddie' as he was known to millions of people, the man behind the successful chain of electronic stores and one of the most iconic ad campaigns in history....
Author
Series
Dirty money novel volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 285 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shane Brandon has been pushed to the brink, torn between his corrupt family and his explosive, all-consuming desire for Emily Stevens, who he now knows is not who, and what, she seems. Has he trusted the wrong person? Will she, not his brother Derek, be the ultimate destruction of his family Empire. Emily tries to run from Shane, but he will stop her, confront her, force her to reveal all--one hot touch and kiss, at a time--under every intimate detail...
272) A cure for wellness
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes how stolen ledgers revealed how the Florida clinic Biogenesis of America provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players, and discusses the resulting scandal and season-long suspension for Alex Rodriguez.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 491 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
IIn the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation's already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained the preservative thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury. This book explores the heated controversy over what many have called an "epidemic" of afflicted...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting investigative film by Danny Schechter. The 'News Dissector' explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity, uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. To tell this story Schechter speaks with bankers involved in these activities, respected economists, insider experts, top journalists including Paul Krugman, and even a convicted white-collar...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xv, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The book examines the dynamics driving the country's deeply troubled political culture and highlights reforms needed in the post-Trump era to strengthen US democracy. The author paints a clear and sobering portrait of a mercenary election industry and its support structure tailored to perpetuate and exploit America's social and political division"--