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Saint X [sound recording] / by Schaitkin, Alexis,1985-author.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by a full cast."Claire is only seven years old when her college-age sister, Alison, disappears on the last night of their family vacation at a resort on the Caribbean island of Saint X. Several days later, Alison's body is found in a remote spot on a nearby cay, and two local men--employees at the resort--are arrested. But the evidence is slim, the timeline against it, and the men are soon released. The story turns into national tabloid news, a lurid mystery that will go unsolved. For Claire and her parents, there is only the return home to broken lives. Years later, Claire is living and working in New York City when a brief but fateful encounter brings her together with Clive Richardson, one of the men originally suspected of murdering her sister. It is a moment that sets Claire on an obsessive pursuit of the truth--not only to find out what happened the night of Alison's death but also to answer the elusive question: Who exactly was her sister? At seven, Claire had been barely old enough to know her: a beautiful, changeable, provocative girl of eighteen at a turbulent moment of identity formation. As Claire doggedly shadows Clive, hoping to gain his trust, waiting for the slip that will reveal the truth, an unlikely attachment develops between them, two people whose lives were forever marked by the same tragedy."--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Psychological fiction.; Family secrets; Grief; Life change events; Murder; Sisters;
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Memphis : a novel / by Stringfellow, Tara M.,author.;
"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory, and given who lives inside this house now, she knows it won't be the last. When her aunt opens the door, Joan sees the cousin who once brutally assaulted her. Over the next few years, she is determined not just to survive, but to find something to dream for. Longing to become an artist, she pours her rage and grief into sketching portraits of the women in her life--including old Miss Dawn from down the street, who seems to know something about curses"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; African American families; Family secrets;
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The sleeping beauty killer [sound recording] / by Clark, Mary Higgins,author.; Maxwell, Jan,1956-narrator.; Burke, Alafair,author.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Jan Maxwell.Casey Carter was convicted of murdering her fiancé, famed philanthropist Hunter Raleigh III, fifteen years ago. And Casey claims, has always claimed, she's innocent. Although she was charged and served out her sentence in prison, she is still living 'under suspicion.' She hears whispers at the grocery store. She can't get a job. Even her own mother treats her like she's guilty. Her story attracts the attention of Laurie Moran and the Under Suspicion news team-it's Casey's last chance to finally clear her name, and Laurie pledges to exonerate her.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Television producers and directors; Television programs;
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Child zero / by Holm, Chris F.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."It began four years ago with a worldwide uptick of bacterial infections: meningitis in Frankfurt, cholera in Johannesburg, tuberculosis in New Delhi. Although the outbreaks spread aggressively and proved impervious to our drugs of last resort, public health officials initially dismissed them as unrelated. Jake, a white, male detective and now, a single father after his wife succumbed to a routine infection, and his Black female partner, Amy respond to an inexplicable crime. Deep in the center of what was formerly Central Park (but has now become an ad hoc holding area for the sick and abandoned) a massacre has taken place with professional-seeming efficiency and stealth. Why murder 60 of the sickest people in New York? Because it turns out they recovered, and there's one 11-year-old boy, missing, who may have cured them just before their deaths, who may be the key to saving all of humanity"--
Subjects: Science fiction.; Novels.; Bioterrorism; Mass murder; Murder; Runaway children;
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Between two evils / by Dolan, Eva,author.;
As the country bakes under the relentless summer sun, a young doctor is found brutally murdered at his home in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village. Is his death connected to his private life - or his professional one? Dr. Joshua Ainsworth worked at an all-female detention centre, one still recovering from a major scandal a few years before. Was he the whistle-blower - or an instigator? As Detective Sergeant Ferreira and Detective Inspector Zigic begin to painstakingly reconstruct Dr. Ainsworth's last days, they uncover yet more secrets and more suspects. But this isn't the only case that's demanding their attention - a violent criminal has been released on a technicality and the police force know he will strike again: the only question is who will his first victim be?
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Murder; Physicians;
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On Ocean Boulevard [sound recording] / by Monroe, Mary Alice,author.; Campbell, Cassandra,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Cassandra Campbell.The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Guests returns at long last to her beloved Isle of Palms in this breathtaking novel about one family's summer of forging new beginnings against the enduring beauty and resilience of the natural world. It's been sixteen years since Caretta "Cara" Rutledge has returned home to the beautiful shores of Charleston, South Carolina. Over those years, she has weathered the tides of deaths and births, struggles and joys. And now, as Cara prepares for her second wedding, her life is about to change yet again. Meanwhile, the rest of the storied Rutledge family is also in flux. Cara's niece Linnea returns to Sullivan's Island to begin a new career and an unexpected relationship. Linnea's parents, having survived bankruptcy, pin their hopes and futures on the construction of a new home on Ocean Boulevard. But as excitement over the house and wedding builds, a devastating illness strikes the family and brings plans to a screeching halt. It is under these trying circumstances that the Rutledge family must come together yet again to discover the enduring strength in love, tradition, and legacy from mother to daughter to granddaughter. Like the sea turtles that come ashore annually on these windswept islands, three generations of the Rutledge family experience a season of return, rebirth, and growth.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Families;
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Seed [videorecording] : the untold story / by Betz, Jon,film director,film producer,editor of moving image work.; Goodall, Jane,on-screen participant.; Kimbrell, Andrew,on-screen participant.; LaDuke, Winona,on-screen participant.; Patel, Raj,on-screen participant.; River, Gaea Omiza,composer (expression); Shiva, Vandana,on-screen participant.; Siegel, Taggart,film director,film producer,editor of moving image work,director of photography.; Stevenson, Garth,composer (expression); Wertheimer, Benjy,1958-composer (expression); Collective Eye (Organization),publisher.; Collective Eye Films,presenter,publisher.; Seneca Falls Picture Company,presenter.;
Original music by Garth Stevenson, Benjy Wertheimer, and Gaea Omiza River ; edited by Taggart Siegel and Jon Betz ; director of photography, Taggart Siegel.Featuring Vandana Shiva, Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrew Kimbrell, Winona LaDuke and Raj Patel.Few things on Earth are as miraculous and vital as seeds, worshipped and treasured since the dawn of humankind. Seed: The Untold Story follows passionate seed keepers protecting our 12,000 year-old food legacy. In the last century, 94 percent of our seed varieties have disappeared. As biotech chemical companies control the majority of our seeds, farmers, scientists, lawyers, and indigenous seed keepers fight a David and Goliath battle to defend the future of our food. In a harrowing and heartening story, these heroes rekindle a lost connection to our most treasured resource and revive a culture connected to seeds.E.DVD ; NTSC, all regions ; widescreen (16:9) ; soundtrack 1: stereo, soundtrack 2: 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Environmental films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Agricultural conservation.; Agriculture; Environmental protection.; Human ecology; Seeds;
For private home use only.
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In my time of dying [sound recording] : how I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife / by Junger, Sebastian,author,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by the author."For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. "It's okay," his father said. "There's nothing to be scared of. I'll take care of you." That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. This experience spurred Junger -- a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical -- to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery."--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Junger, Sebastian.; Death.; Future life.; Near-death experiences.;
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A step past darkness / by Kurian, Vera,author.;
There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch; Kelly, the bookworm next door; James, a cynical burnout; Casey, a loveable football player; Padma, the shy straight-A student; and Jia, who's starting to see visions she can't explain. When they realize that they can't trust anyone but each other, they begin to investigate what happened on their own. As tensions in town escalate to a breaking point, the six make a vow of silence, bury all their evidence and promise to never contact each other again. Their plan works - almost. Twenty years later, Jia calls them all back to Wesley Falls--Maddy has been murdered, and they are the only ones who can uncover why. But to end things, they have to return to the mine one last time.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Abandoned mines; Friendship; High school students; Murder; Suburban life;
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1911 [videorecording] : revolution / by Chao, Winston.; Chen, Baoguang,1952-; Chen, Joan,1961-; Cheng, Long,1954-; Du, Yuhang.; Fang, Zuming,1982-; Hu, Ge.; Huang, Zhizhong,1969-; Jiang, Wu,1967-; Li, Bingbing,1976-; Mei, Ting,1975-; Ning, Jing,1972-; Ren, Zhonglun,1955-; Sun, Chun,1956-; Wang, Xingdong.; Yu, Shaoqun,1983-; Zhang, Li,1957 Apr.-; Well Go USA, Inc.;
Cinematography, Wai Huang.Jackie Chan, Zhao Wenxuan, Li Bingbing, Sun Chun, Chen Chong, Jiang Wu, Fang Zuming, Hu Ge, Ning Jing, Yu Shaoqun, Du Yuhang, Huang Zhizhong, Mei Ting.A historical action war drama based on the founding of the Republic of China, when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the last ruling Qing Dynasty, which held unquestioned power and rule for 250 years. From the walls of the Forbidden City to the battlefields of China, no expense was spared in the production and no detail ignored in its quest for historical accuracy. 1911 is a true epic to be enjoyed for generations.MPAA Rating: R.DVD, widescreen presentation ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Huang, Xing, 1874-1916; Sun, Yat-sen, 1866-1925; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Historical films.; Motion pictures, Chinese.;
© c2012., Well Go USA,
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