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- Istanbul passage : a novel / by Kanon, Joseph.;
A gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era. A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive city prepares for the grim realities of post-war life, he is given one more assignment, a routine job that goes fatally wrong, plunging him into a tangle of intrigue and moral confusion. Played out against the bazaars and mosques and faded mansions of this knowing, ancient Ottoman city, Leon's attempt to save one life leads to a desperate manhunt and a maze of shifting loyalties that threatens his own. How do you do the right thing when there are only bad choices to make? Istanbul Passage is the story of a man swept up in the aftermath of war, an unexpected love affair, and a city as deceptive as the calm surface waters of the Bosphorus that divides it.
- Subjects: Spy stories.; Americans; Cold War; Intelligence agents;
- © 2012., Atria Books,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Dust / by Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.;
"After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain-or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" --Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Detective and mystery stories.; Mystery fiction.; Forensic pathologists; Medical examiners (Law); Murder victims; Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character); Serial murders;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Hotel Transylvania. [videorecording] / by Gomez, Selena,1992-actor.; Mothersbaugh, Mark.; Samberg, Andy,1978-voice actor.; Sandler, Adam,voice actor.; Tartakovsky, Genndy,1970-director.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Camera, Alex Portin ; production design, Michael Kurinsky ; editor, Catherine Apple ; music, Mark Mothersbaugh.Voices: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi.When Dracula's daughter and her husband go away for a vacation, Dracula tries to bring out the monster side of his grandson.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD ; widescreen 1.85:1 ; Dolby digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Animated films.; Children's films.; Comedy films.; Dracula, Count (Fictitious character); Fathers and daughters; Feature films.; Grandparent and child; Hotels; Hotels; Monsters; Vampires; Video recordings for children.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.;
- For private home use only.
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- King of kings / by Smith, Wilbur A.,author.; Robertson, Imogen,1973-author.;
An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller,The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1888. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancée, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand. The future is theirs for the taking. But when Penrod's jealous former lover, Lady Agatha, plants doubt about his character, Amber leaves him and travels to the wilds of Abyssinia with her twin sister, Saffron, and her adventurer husband, Ryder Courtney. On a mission to establish a silver mine, they make the dangerous journey to the new capital of Addis Ababa, where they are welcomed by Menelik, the King of Kings. But Italy has designs on Abyssinia, and there are rumours of a plan to invade. Back in Cairo, a devastated Penrod seeks oblivion in the city's opium dens. When he is rescued by his old friend, Lorenzo De Fonseca, now in the Italian army, and offered the chance to assess the situation around the Abyssinian border, Penrod leaps at the chance of action. With storm clouds gathering, and on opposing sides of the invasion, can Penrod and Amber find their way back to one another - against all the odds?
- Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Historical fiction.; Sisters; Silver mines and mining; Adventure and adventurers;
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- Fury [videorecording] / by Ayer, David,film director,screenwriter.; Bernthal, Jon,actor.; Henke, Brad William,1966-; Isaacs, Jason,1963-; LaBeouf, Shia,1986-; Lerman, Logan,1992-; Parrack, Jim.; Peña, Michael,1976-; Pitt, Brad,1963-; Samuel, Xavier,1983-; Vance, Kevin.; Columbia Pictures.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm);
Brad Pitt, Shia Labeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, Jim Parrack, Brad William Henke, Kevin Vance, Xavier Samuel, Jason Isaacs.April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD, widescreen, 1.85:1 presentation; Dolby digital.
- Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Male friendship; Sherman tank; Soldiers; Tank warfare; World War, 1939-1945;
- © 2015., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
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- No country for love / by Trofimov, Yaroslav,author.;
Seventeen-year-old Deborah Rosenbaum, ambitious and in love with literature, arrives in the capital of the new Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kharkiv, 1930, to make her own fate as a modern woman. The stale and forbidding ways of the past are out; it's a new dawn, the Soviet era, where skyscrapers go up overnight. Deborah finds work and meets a dashing young officer named Samuel who is training to become a fighter pilot. They fall in love, and begin to become part of Ukraine's new cultural elite. But Deborah's prospects, and Ukraine's, soon dim. Famine rolls through the over-harvested countryside, and any deviation from Moscow-dictated ideology is punished by disappearance: without warning, Samuel is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Deborah is on her own with a baby. And this is only the beginning. As advancing Nazi armies move through Ukraine during World War II, its yellow fields of wheat run red with blood. Forced to renounce the man she loves, her identity and even her name, Debora also learns to endure, manipulate and resist. No Country for Love follows the hard choices Debora makes as Ukraine, caught between two totalitarian ideologies, turns into the deadliest place in the world -- while she tries to protect those she loves most."--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; World War, 1939-1945; Young women;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Serena [videorecording] / by Bier, Susanne,1960-; Cooper, Bradley.; Ifans, Rhys,1968-; Jones, Toby,1967-; Lawrence, Jennifer,1990-; Rash, Ron,1953-Serena.Videorecording.; Entertainment One (Firm : Canada);
Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans, Toby Jones.Adapted from the novel by Ron Rash, director Susanne Bier's romantic period drama Serena details the deteriorating relationship between North Carolina timber magnate George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper) and his fiercely independent, entrepreneurial-minded wife Serena (Jennifer Lawrence) following a devastating miscarriage. A woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind and relishes the opportunity for manual labor in the forest, the enigmatic Serena subsequently grows intensely jealous of the woman who previously bore her husband a son, and quickly begins to unravel over suspicions that George is sheltering his illegitimate family.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Family secrets; Feature films.; Love; Lumber trade; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Romance films.;
- For private home use only.
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- The 5th wave [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Blakeson, J,film director.; Moretz, Chloë,1997-actor.; Zuk, Matthew,actor.; Lopez, Gabriela,actor.; Borders, Bailey Anne,actor.; Columbia Pictures Corporation,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Chloe Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Zackary Arthur.Originally released as a motion picture in 2016.Sixteen-year-old Cassie Sullivan is trying to survive a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion, while trying to save her five-year-old brother Sam from a training camp that was created by the Others (the aliens).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1.
- Subjects: Science fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Extraterrestrial beings; Brothers and sisters; Survival; Rescues; Human-alien encounters;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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- Dust [sound recording] / by Cornwell, Patricia Daniels.; Reading, Kate.;
Read by Kate Reading."The new Kay Scarpetta novel . . . . After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she's recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, is oddly draped in ivory linen and posed in a way that is too deliberate to be the killer's first strike. A preliminary examination in the sea of red mud where the body has been left also reveals a bizarre residue that fluoresces blood red, emerald green and sapphire blue. Physical evidence links the case to a series of uniquely weird homicides in Washington, D.C., where Scarpetta's FBI husband has been deployed to help capture a serial killer dubbed the Capital Murderer. The cases all connect and yet seem to conflict. Gail Shipman was murdered for financial gain-or was she? It will require the usual ensemble of characters to find out the truth, including Scarpetta's sidekick Pete Marino, who has undergone a drastic change in his life that places him center stage in a Cambridge investigation that puts everyone at risk" -- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Forensic pathologists; Medical examiners (Law); Murder victims; Scarpetta, Kay (Fictitious character); Serial murders;
- © p2013., Penguin Audio,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The magnificent seven [videorecording] / by Birnbaum, Roger,film producer.; Black, Todd,film producer.; Fuqua, Antoine,film director.; Hawke, Ethan,1970-actor.; Pizzolatto, Nic,1975-screenwriter.; Pratt, Chris,1979-actor.; Washington, Denzel,1954-actor.; Wenk, Richard,screenwriter.; Columbia Pictures,presenter.; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures,presenter.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Music, James Horner and Simon Franglen ; editor, John Refoua ; director of photography, Mauro Fiore.Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke.The town of Rose Creek is under the deadly control of Bartholomew Bogue, the townspeople are desperate for protection. They find protection in seven outlaws. These seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.MPAA rating: PG-13; for extended and intense sequences of Western violence, and for historical smoking, some language and suggestive material.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Western films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Battles; Gunfighters; Outlaws; Thieves;
- For private home use only.
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