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6161) Numb3rs: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
FBI agent Don Eppes couldn't be more different from his younger brother, Charlie, a brilliant math professor at a California university. Don deals in hard facts and evidence, Charlie thrives in a world of mathematical probability and equations. Don and Charlie often combine their areas of expertise to solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles.
6162) To have and have not
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Description
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are boatmen available for hire based on the island of Martinique. With World War II raging, Harry prefers to remain neutral. However, with his business failing, he agrees to aid the French resistance. Alongside this plot is Harry's relationship with Marie, a resistance sympathizer who sings at one of Harry's hangouts.
6163) The Orphanage
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
6164) He was a quiet man
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"Bob Maconel [is] a bullied office drone with hate in his heart, voices in his head, and a loaded gun in his desk drawer. When a bizarre twist turns him into an instant hero, Bob begins a tender relationship with a disabled co-worker who asks Bob for the ultimate favor."--Container.
6165) Thr3e
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Upon completing his graduate thesis, Kevin Parson is forced to face his own dark past when he is targeted by the psychopathic Riddle Killer. Following a terrifying encounter, in which he is given seconds to confess before his car is blown to bits, Kevin meets up with a criminal psychologist whose brother was killed in a similarly explosive confrontation. Together they must solve Kevin's mystifying riddle and uncover his connection to the murderer...
6166) Saw III
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Jigsaw is missing, and with his new apprentice, Amanda, the puppet master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture. While the city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Denlon and Jeff are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on Jigsaw's vicious chessboard.
6167) Until death
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Anthony Lowe is a down-and-out detective addicted to heroin who is coming off of a drug deal in which two officers were killed, and the primary villain, the drugs, the money and the surveillance tapes are still at large. Lowe is also dealing with his wife, who has just informed him that she is pregnant-- but the child is not his. After a gunfight in which Lowe comes very close to death, he falls into a coma. While on the road to recovery, Lowe finds...
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a...
6171) Wall Street
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
6172) Chaos
Pub. Date
2005
Description
After a deadly bank heist, Detectives Quentin Conners and Shane Dekker are drawn into a mysterious case where nothing is what it seems. Pulling the strings is a criminal mastermind who seems to kill without warning or reason. Abound with random acts of violence and deception, the only hope for survival is finding an order to the chaos.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Most of the Face Card games continue to be a deadly challenge to Borderland's visitors, their often complicated or confusing rules meant to trick players into dooming themselves. In contrast, the King of Spades' game is refreshingly direct--kill or be killed! Can an uneasy coalition of visitors band together to take down the sniper King before his bullets declare game over for everyone?
6174) Phonebooth
Author
Pub. Date
©2003.
Description
A self-centered New York City publicist finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
As the third season begins, Mulder is missing and assumed dead. Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as the partners are reunited, each must deal with additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. They soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived notions are shattered.
6176) Black sheep
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
6177) A little trip to heaven
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Insurance agent Abe Holt is investigating the suspicious death of the driver of a burned-out car. He must find out whether or not the dead man - a conman with a record - could possibly have been the victim of an attempt to swindle the insurance company.
6178) Youth without youth
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Romania is on the brink of war with Germany and linguistics professor Dominic Matei has little left to live for. On Easter Day 1938, he crosses the street and is struck by a bolt of lightning. Badly burned and nearly dead, he amazes the doctors by healing in only a short time. He defies science and ages in reverse from 70 to 40. There's seemingly no limit to the wonder and love he can find in his new youth. He pursues lost dreams, endless knowledge...
6179) Suspicion
Pub. Date
[2006], c2003
Description
Carol receives an anonymous e-mail regarding an affair between her husband and his secretary. Torn between loyalty to her husband and her desire for the truth, she confronts the mistress and discovers her murdered.