Denis Lawson
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Inside Number Nine volume 2
Description
In this silent farce, we enter the beautiful, modernist home of Gerald and Sabrina - a beautiful home with lots of beautiful things in it. When cat-burglars Ray and Eddie decide to break in, they have to dodge all manner of obstacles - including the warring couple that live there - to get their hands on a priceless painting.
2) Local hero
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Knox Oil and Gas Company wants to buy, raze and replace a sleepy Scottish seaside village with refineries and deep-water docks. They send their top deal-maker and trouble-shooter to handle the negotiations.
3) Local hero
Pub. Date
1983.
Description
"Knox Oil and Gas of Houston is far removed from the North Sea oil it desires and the sleepy Scottish village it wants to buy and replace with a refinery. So Knox sends its ace dealmaker to negotiate. He finds cheerful, future millionaires, awesome northern lights, a lusty innkeeper, a stubborn beachcomber and a mermaid with webbed toes"--Container.
4) Bleak House
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Tale of a long extended legal case and the havoc it wrecks in lives over various generations.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Beautiful DCI Sasha Miller leads a team of detectives called out of retirement to solve cold cases in this long-running British series. Season Twelve sees the departure of the last-remaining original member of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad, Gerry Standing, who is replaced by old-school ex-copper Ted Case. This series is packed full of the mystery, drama and trademark humor the fans know and love.
6) The machine
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Two artificial intelligence engineers come together as they work to create the first ever self-aware artificial intelligence. A veteran AI engineer secretly hopes to develop technology to help his diseased daughter, even if it means funding comes from the powerful Ministry of Defense. Things go wrong when the MOD takes over and advances the researchers, work to the next level, teaching the AI to kill and follow MOD instructions with its new and nearly...
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Based on Stevenson's travels with a stubborn donkey named Modestine through south central France, this entertaining narrative is one of the best travelogues of the nineteenth-century. Stevenson offers many keen observations about France, the people, and the dramatic history of the region, as well as thoughtful insights about the religious strife between the Catholics and Protestants.
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Susan is a scientist whose research has caused her to neglect virtually everything else in her life, including love. That is until she meets Michael, a talented chef, and suddenly everything starts to change, not just in Susan's life, but in the entire world. While Susan and Michael are experiencing new and unforeseen depths of feeling, all around the globe a new epidemic is causing people to lose their sensory perceptions.
9) The Machine
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Vincent falls in love with Ava while they are creating the world's first self-aware artificial intelligence. The work goes terribly wrong when the military steals their technology to make a robotic weapon that no one can control.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
As this beloved British cop show returns, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad (UCOS) have a new boss. Beautiful young DCI Sasha Miller keeps a watchful eye on her motley crew of veteran detectives: Gerry Standing, Steve McAndrew, and Danny Griffin. As well as facing their own battles on the home front, the team must keep an open mind when one of their won is implicated in a case that spans three decades and shakes the police force...
13) A Royal Scandal
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The true story of a royal marriage that fell apart - a story of adultery, bitterness and betrayal. A relationship entered into for all the wrong reasons disintegrates under the eager gaze of the press and culminates in a very public washing of private dirty laundry.
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