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Deceptions / by Porter, Anna,author.;
"Former Budapest cop Attila Feher would really like to see art expert Helena Marsh again, so he arranges a contract for her to determine whether a painting is a copy of a famous Artemisia Gentileschi canvas or the real thing. A simple appraisal becomes a dangerous assignment when usual eastern European gangsters show up and people start dying and the seething corruption that underlies the lost promise of post-Soviet Hungary swirls to the surface. In a race to get to the truth and to outwit her adversaries, Helena and Attila must solve the mystery of the painting's origins. Richly atmospheric, set in Strasbourg, Budapest, and Paris, this witty, sophisticated novel will satisfy readers of political thrillers by Alan Furst and Philip Kerr. Deceptions is a thinking-person's thriller, a romp to the last satisfying page."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Art dealers; Ex-police officers; Corruption;
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The mercy [videorecording] / by Firth, Colin,1960-actor.; Gatiss, Mark,actor.; Marsh, James,1963-film director.; Thewlis, David,1963-actor.; Weisz, Rachel,1970-actor.; motion picture adaptation of (work):Tomalin, Nicholas.Strange last voyage of Donald Crowhurst.; Screen Media Films (Firm),publisher.;
Colin Firth, Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Buchan.Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor competes in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Crowhurst, Donald, 1932-1969; Teignmouth Electron (Ketch); Sunday Times Golden Globe Race (1968-1969); Single-handed sailing; Voyages around the world;
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Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space / by Sagan, Carl,1934-1996.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-341) and index.Wanderers: an introduction -- You are here -- Aberrations of light -- The great demotions -- A universe not made for us -- Is there intelligent life on Earth? -- The triumph of Voyager -- Among the moons of Saturn -- The first new planet -- An American ship at the frontiers of the solar system -- Sacred black -- Evening and morning star -- The ground melts -- The gift of Apollo -- Exploring other worlds and protecting this one -- The gates of the wonder world open -- Scaling heaven -- Routine interplanetary violence -- The marsh of Camarina -- Remaking the planets -- Darkness -- To the sky! -- Tiptoeing through the Milky Way.Author Carl Sagan suggests that the survival of the human race depends on the exploration and settlement of other worlds.
Subjects: Nonfiction.; Popular works.; Exploration of outer space.;
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Where the crawdads sing / by Owens, Delia,author.;
"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the land, learning from the false signals of fireflies the real way of this world. But while she could have lived in solitude forever, the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. Drawn to two young men from town, who are each intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world -- until the unthinkable happens. In Where the crawdads Sing, Owens juxtaposes an exquisite ode to the natural world against a heartbreaking coming of age story and a surprising murder investigation. Thought-provoking, wise, and deeply moving, Owens's debut novel reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Young women; Solitude; Murder;
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Tidelands / by Gregory, Philippa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Midsummer's Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands--the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women and crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she's leading disaster into the heart of her life.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; Civil war; Witches; Families;
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Tidelands [sound recording] / by Gregory, Philippa,author.; Brealey, Louise,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Louise Brealey.Midsummer's Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands--the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women and crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she's leading disaster into the heart of her life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Women; Civil war; Witches; Families;
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New tricks. [videorecording] / by Simpson, Julian,1972-television director.; Grant, Brian,television director.; Marsh, Daikin,television director.; O'Gorman, Sarah,television director.; Edwards, David Innes,television director.; Outhwaite, Tamzin,1970-actor.; Lawson, Denis,actor.; Lyndhurst, Nicholas,actor.; Lamb, Larry,1947-actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Writers, Julian Simpson, Roy Mitchell, Paul Farrell, Danielle James, Rachael New, Marston Bloom, Tahsin Gunner, CHris Murray ; producer, Huw Kennair-Jones.Tamzin Outhwaite, Larry Lamb, Denis Lawson, Nicholas Lyndhurst.All ten episodes from the twelfth and final series of the BBC police drama. A motley crew of retired police officers are recruited by DCI Sasha Miller (Tamzin Outhwaite) and Danny Griffin (Nicholas Lyndhurst) to reopen troublesome cases that were never laid to rest.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; 1.78:1 widescreen ; Dolby Digital stereophonic.
Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Police; Police corruption; Criminal behavior;
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How to find your way home / by Regan, Katy,author.;
"What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, life-affirming novel about what happens when a sister discovers that the brother she hasn't seen in more than a decade is homeless, and in reconnecting with him learns the true meaning of belonging, from the author of Little Big Love. When they were children, Emily and her brother Stephen were inseparable. Running wild through the marshes of Canvey Island, it was Stephen who taught her to look for the incandescent flash of a bird's wings, who instilled within her a love and respect for nature's wonders. But one June day, their lives came crashing down around them and fate forced them apart. Fifteen years later, Emily should be happy. She has a sun-filled garden flat, a lovely boyfriend, and a job that is supposed to let her make a difference. But instead she's lost, always on the lookout for her brother's face, and worn down, spending her days working at the local housing offices having to turn away more applicants than she then she can help. And then one day, her brother walks through the door, homeless and in need of help. Stephen has been living in and out of shelters for the last decade and the baggage between them is heavy. But Emily is overjoyed to see her brother again and invites him to come live with her. In an attempt to rebuild their relationship, they embark on a birding adventure together. Amid the soft calls of the marsh birds, they must confront the secrets of all that stands between them-even as they begin to realize that home may just be found within"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Bird watching; Brothers and sisters; Homelessness; Secrecy;
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Argyles and arsenic / by MacRae, Molly,author.;
"After 93 well-lived years, Violet MacAskill is ready to simplify her life. Her eccentric solution? She'll throw a decanting and decluttering party at her family home-a Scottish Baronial manor near the seaside town of Inversgail, Scotland. Violet sets aside everything she wants or needs, then she invites her many friends in to sip sherry and help themselves to whatever they want from all that's left. Janet Marsh and Christine Robertson, two of the women who own Yon Bonnie Books in Inversgail, enjoy themselves at the party. Not everyone who attends has a good time, though. Wendy Erskine, director of the Inversgail museum, is found dead, and rumors swirl about food poisoning from a local food truck. Then Violet tells Constable Hobbs that a tin of rat poison is missing. And when Hobbs' own grandmother comes under suspicion for murder, he enlists the women from Yon Bonnie Books, and the race is on to find the murderer"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Bookstores; Murder; Women booksellers;
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The poison machine / by Lloyd, Robert J.,author.;
London, 1679 - A year has passed since the sensational attempt to murder King Charles II, but London is still a viper's nest of rumored Catholic conspiracies, and of plots against them in turn. When Harry Hunt - estranged from his mentor Robert Hooke - is summoned to the remote and windswept marshes of Norfolk, he is at first relieved to get away from the place. But in Norfolk, he finds that some Royal workers shoring up a riverbank have made a grim discovery - the skeleton of a dwarf. Harry is able to confirm that the skeleton is that of Captain Jeffrey Hudson, a prominent member of the court once famously given to the Queen in a pie. Except no one knew Hudson was dead, because another man had been impersonating him. The hunt for the impersonator, clearly working as a spy, will take Harry to Paris, another city bedeviled by conspiracies and intrigues, and back, with encounters along the way with a flying man and a cross-dressing swordswoman - and to the uncovering of a plot to kill the Queen and all the Catholic members of her court. But where? When?
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; False personation; Spies;
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