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21) The letter
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Set on a rubber plantation in Malaya, this story centers on a woman's reasons for killing a man who was a close family friend.
22) Gaslight
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A susceptible young woman marries a suave, romantic man never suspecting that he is a murderous scoundrel, obsessed with finding the jewels hidden in her London home. She becomes the helpless victim as slowly, insidiously, he drives her to the brink of insanity
24) A stolen life
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Davis plays identical twins, one good and one evil, who are both in love with the same man.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"The Palazzo Vecchio. The Uffizi Gallery. Michelangelo's David. Meg Johnson is eager to discover the glories of Italy with her beautiful daughter Clara, who was mentally impaired in a childhood accident. But Clara discovers something more--love--with an ardent Italian who mistakes her limitations for charming naivet.̌ Clara is so happy and fulfilled. Should Margaret reveal her daughter's secret?"--Container.
26) Hugo the Hippo
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A young hippopotamus explains why he trusts children but has a healthy distrust of all grownups.
27) Blue steel
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
A US Marshall learns of a plot to steal a huge amount of gold.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Robert Young stars as veteran journalist John Davis, who is covering the war with the British allies in London. When his pregnant wife Nora is injured in an air raid there, the couple is robbed of their chance of ever becoming parents - until John picks up on an assignment that changes their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
"With those gams and that voice, High "C" Susie packs 'em in at a Bowery honkytonk located several blocks and a world away from where her Beantown family thinks she's singing: the grand opera house. Then her prim and disapproving sister comes to town ... and promptly falls in love with singing, dancing and a handsome young man-about-town"--Container.
30) D.O.A
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
When a California businessman shows up at the San Francisco police station to report a murder, the police captain asks him who was murdered. His reply: 'I was.' So begins the tale of a man who is poisoned at a dark jazz club and, with only hours left to live, is determined to find out who poisoned him and why.
33) Madame Curie
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and, with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
'Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!' From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives.
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
"Ask mother" says the message scrawled in lipstick at a muder scene by an unknown serial killer who preys on women. It's a sensational story - if it bleeds, it leads - and a news conglomerate offers a big promotion to the high-level company exec who solves the case. So begins the wheeling, dealing and backstabbing of the competing media hotshots as they vie to unmask the so-called Lipstick Killer
36) The Virginian
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Codes of honor, murderous greed, swift retribution, and a loner's impact on an untamed land. The greatest themes of Western movies ride with new vitality in this stirring and poignant saga of The Virginian.
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Dr. Niles Nelson, an inveterate horse player, is lured by the promise of easy money into becoming doctor to crime boss Joe Gurney and his gang. When Niles is killed by the police while attending to one of Gurney's men, his wife, Dr. Carol Nelson, falls under suspicion of also being in league with the gangsters. Under threat of having her license revoked, Carol is desperate to establish her innocence, and sets up her medical practice in the small...
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations, which may or may not be comforting to parents Frankie and Mike. Axl may be living out of a Winnebago, but he has discovered the love of his life. Meanwhile, always-optimistic Sue has caught the acting bug in Dollywood and is changing her major to drama. Now in high school, Brick has made it his mission to fit in with his peers, and not be one of the weird kids....
39) Berlin express
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Filmed amid the actual bombed out ruins of Frankfurt and Berlin after World War II, this film recounts the dangerous attempts to unify Germany as four post-war heroes from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. battle die-hard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman.
40) Private lives
Series
Pub. Date
[1931 c[2010]
Description
Amanda and Elyot--a witty, sophisticated married couple--divorce and marry other mates. Amanda chooses stuffy Victor, while Elyot's selection is the tiresome Sibyl. Coincidentally, both newlywed couples honeymoon at the same Swiss hotel--in adjoining suites, in fact. Amanda and Elyot realize anew that the flame of their love has never been extinguished, but when both slip off for a lover's tryst, they fall into their old pattern of ceaseless bickering....