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1) ÆonFlux
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Only one city--the totalitarian-ruled, seemingly-perfect Bregna--remains on earth by the 25th century after a virus has killed off 99% of the world population. The rebel Monicans, seeking to overthrow the government, send mysterious assassin Aeon Flux to eliminate Bregna's highest official. But Aeon discovers startling secrets along the way that could change the world's future.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two percent of the world's population has disappeared. Was it the Rapture? A mass murder? Cult suicides? Aliens? Based on Tom Perrotta's bestselling novel, the series follows Kevin Garvey, police chief and father of two in Mapletown, New York, three years after the mysterious event. As Garvey struggles to grieve for his losses, rebuild his life, and regain a sense of normalcy within the community, the world around him grows ever stranger.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: fifteen-year-old Cass and seventeen-year-old Emma. Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Abby Winter, something doesn't add up. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With Mapleton thrown into chaos at the close of Season one, Season Two finds many of its residents searching for a fresh start. Kevin Garvey retires as police chief and moves his newly formed family to a small Texas town that seems to have been spared from the event that shook the rest of the world.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's Halloween, Saturday night, on a pastoral East coast college campus. Scantily-costumed students ride the fine line between adolescence and adulthood as they prepare for a night of debauchery. Alcohol is flowing. Sex is in the air. Expectations are high as Leda flirts with her thrilling new crush, Ian, and he flirts back. But by the end of the night things will have taken a turn. When Leda later wakes up in Ian's room, she is unsure exactly what...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young couple manages to dig their way out of the snow when a flash avalanche interrupts their skiing trip in the remote French Pyrenees, but once freed the couple discovers the world has been overtaken by a terrible silence with cell phones and land lines cut off and a swift evacuation leaves them alone to face the coming threat of another deadly storm.
11) Deception
Author
Publisher
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Twins are supposed to have an unbreakable bond, but Patti and Jamie have serious relationship issues. They haven't spoken since Jamie ruined Patti's upcoming nuptials years ago. When a niece she knows nothing about telephones, Patti must unravel the yarn of Jamie's life and her mysterious disappearance. Detective Carter Caldwell takes his job seriously, and it's his job to keep Patti and her niece safe. But Patti is determined to help find her sister....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition. Once a year, actors from across the globe descend on the smog and sunshine of Los Angeles for pilot season. Every cable network and studio looking to fill the rosters of their new shows enticing a fresh batch of young hopefuls, anxious, desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to make it. Careers...
13) The Clearing
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A dark and atmospheric psychological thriller, full of intrigue, terror and superstition, which examines our deep fear of the unknown" ( Gumshoe Reviews ). With the eerie thrills of Dean Koontz, Dan Newman's seething suspense reveals the part a man played in a murder -- and the guilt that continues to haunt him ... When his father commits suicide, Nate travels back to St. Lucia, the land where he was raised as an outsider, tolerated but not accepted....
14) Don't Let Go
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of After the Crash , "a novel so extraordinary it reminded me of reading Stieg Larsson for the first time" ( The Sunday Times ). Holidaying in an idyllic resort on the island of Réunion, wealthy Parisians Martial and Liane Bellion are enjoying the perfect family moment with their six-year-old daughter. Turquoise skies, clear water, palm trees, a warm breeze. Then Liane Bellion disappears from her hotel room. The door to...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There --after encountering a pair of pilots passing through town in a beat up Cessna--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fifteen, she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy rancher who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement...
Author
Series
Will Trent volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a serene summer Sunday, a routine admission for a run-of-the-mill surgery at Atlanta's Emory Hospital goes tragically wrong, setting off a catastrophic wave of destruction that sends the facility and the surrounding area into lockdown. One of the city's largest and most prestigious institutions, Emory is situated near the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI counter-terrorism headquarters, and a large children's hospital. Anything that happens...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Tom Perrotta's novel about life in a small town after many of its residents vanished in a Rapture-like event. In the third season, the Garvey and Murphy families come together as they desperately grasp for a system of belief to better explain what defies explanation. The world is crackling with the energy of something big about to happen, a corresponding bookend to the Sudden Departure that sent them all spinning years earlier, bringing...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Commander Lioinel 'Buster' Crabb was Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond. A British naval frogman, Crabb disappeared under mysterious circumstances in 1957 following a secret dive beneath a Russian warship which brought Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin to Britain. Fifty years after the event, award-winning investigative journalist Don Hale uncovers who sanctioned Crabb's final dive in a case which claimed the jobs of Admiralty top brass...
19) The swell
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Point Break meets And Then There Were None in a pulse-pounding beach read that explores the dangerous ties between a group of elite surfers who are determined to find the perfect waves at any cost ... even murder"--
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