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Language
English
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Sidney Archer, aided by FBI agent Lee Sawyer, searches for the truth about the disappearance of her husband Jason, a rising young executive with the world's leading technology conglomerate, who was supposed to be on an airplane that crashed, but apparently missed the flight and has not been seen since.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Follows the personal and professional exploits of a group of attorneys working at the law firm of Crane, Poole & Schmidt. They tackle some of today's most inflammatory, and sometimes irreverent, social and moral issues, from teen pregnancy and the death penalty to sex surrogates and Alzheimer's. Now, the firm faces financial ruin and its brilliant attorneys face chaotic caseloads filled with malpractice, murder, love and lust.
5) Semi-pro
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When their basketball league announces that they will be merging with the NBA and will take only the top four teams with them, the flashy but losing Flint Tropics must buckle down and win some games if they want to survive the cut.
6) Flawless
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
In 1960s London, Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation, finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, and is persuaded by Hobbs, a disgruntled janitor with detailed knowledge of the company's security, to help pull off a daring heist.
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Language
English
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Description
Nick Heller comes to the aid of family friend Marshall Marcus, whose daughter Alexandra, has been kidnapped and held captive in an underground crypt; but as Nick digs deeper into Marshall's life, he finds that his criminal activities have left behind scores of enemies that reach to the highest levels of government.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Larry is a small town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue the woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big corporation corruption trial in Chicago. The agents, it turns out, are found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
11) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth."--Container.
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Series
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English
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Attica Locke-a writer and producer of FOX's Empire-delivers an engrossing, complex, and cinematic thriller about crime and racial justice
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist (Mystery/Thriller)
Edgar Award Nominee (Best First Novel)
The Orange Prize for Fiction (Shortlist)
"A near-perfect balance of trenchant social commentary, rich characterizations, and action-oriented plot.... Attica Locke {is} a writer wise beyond her years."
- Los Angeles...
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English
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Angela Joy Palladino has made a name for herself as an environmental activist, but she is still nervous about returning to her hometown of Scotia, West Virginia, where she has been hired to join a campaign against mountaintop mining, and when the lawyer who hired her dies suddenly, and threats and bodies begin to pile up, AJ realizes there are others besides herself with secrets to keep.
14) Kickback
Author
Series
A Spenser novel volume Book 43
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"P.I. Spenser, knight-errant of the Back Bay, returns in this stellar addition to the iconic New York Times-bestselling series from author Ace Atkins. What started out as a joke landed seventeen-year-old Dillon Yates in a lockdown juvenile facility in Boston Harbor. When he set up a prank Twitter account for his vice principal, he never dreamed he could be brought up on criminal charges, but that's exactly what happened. This is Blackburn, Massachusetts,...
15) Vanished
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
International investigator and corporate security consultant Nick Heller uses his Special Forces skills to look into the whereabouts of his estranged brother, who disappeared after he and his wife were attacked, and uncovers a conspiracy involving his brother's work for a multibillion-dollar defense contractor and twelve billion in U.S. funds that went missing in Iraq.
16) The road to ruin
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
This time out John Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks return to the scene of the crime world in an attempt to steal a fleet of automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The mark is Monroe Hall, corrupt CEO of a now defunct conglomerate, who spent more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. Having escaped prosecution, Hall is holed up on his massive Pennsylvania farm and Dortmunder, as...
17) The capitol game
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Wall Street banker Jack Wiley stumbles across a substance that when applied to a vehicle gives the equivalent of thirty inches of solid steel, and enlists the help of the Capitol Group to take over the small company that developed it.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Eve and Alexandra, the great-granddaughters of Kate Blackwell, battle for control of the powerful multibillion-dollar corporation, but their desire to lead the company is threatened by their own ambitions, dark secrets from the past, and a little-known descendant of Kate's great-grandfather.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In 1994 it would have taken about seven days to send someone a copy your holiday snaps. Now using a digital camera and email it takes about ten minutes. This fast-moving documentary takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the world of convergence. Technology change: In the early days computers were huge and needed to be kept in air-conditioned rooms. Next they moved to the desktop and the internet was developed. Memory and processing power increased, and...
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