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Nine perfect strangers. [videorecording] / by Cannavale, Bobby,actor.; Evans, Luke,1979-actor.; Hall, Regina,actor.; Kidman, Nicole,1967-actor.; McCarthy, Melissa,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Moriarty, Liane.Nine perfect strangers.; Shannon, Michael,1974-actor.; Fifth Season Publishing, LLC,publisher.;
Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon, Luke Evans, Bobby Cannavale, Regina Hall.Based on The New York Times bestselling book by author Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers takes place at a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation as nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a woman on a mission to reinvigorate their tired minds and bodies. However, these nine "perfect" strangers have no idea what is about to hit them.14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (16:9 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, LPCM 2.0.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Thrillers (Television programs); Television programs.; City dwellers; Health resorts; Human behavior; Man-woman relationships; Interpersonal relations; Motivation (Psychology); Strangers;
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A stranger in the house / by Lapeña, Shari,1960-author.;
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Married people; Traffic accidents; Amnesia; Secrecy; Murder;
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A stranger in the house [sound recording] / by Lapeña, Shari,1960-author.; Gilbert, Tavia,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Tavia Gilbert.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Married people; Traffic accidents; Amnesia; Secrecy; Murder;
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A stranger in the family / by Casey, Jane(Jane E.),author.;
In book 11 of the 'Maeve Kerrigan' series, when nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart. Now, 16 years later, her mother and father are found dead. It looks like a straightforward murder-suicide but DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent soon discover nothing about this case is straightforward. Until Maeve finds out what happened to Rosalie, no one will be safe.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Kerrigan, Maeve (Fictitious character); Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Police; Secrecy; Women detectives;
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The stranger in Room Six / by Corry, Jane,author.;
It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's murder. Now that she's free, she's ready for a fresh start. So, when she gets a job at Sunnyside Home for the Young at Heart, she's dead set on making sure no one learns about her awful past. Mabel has spent her life at Sunnyside--first as an evacuee during the Blitz, and now as the home's oldest resident. She's held the secrets of this house for as long as she can remember. Secrets that, in the wrong hands, could kill. But history won't stay hidden forever, because someone is onto both Belinda and Mabel, watching and listening from Room Six. And they'll stop at nothing to find out the truth.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Judicial error; Nursing homes; Stalkers; Strangers; Secrecy; Women ex-convicts; Women;
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The way of the strangers : encounters with the Islamic State / by Wood, Graeme,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-305) and index.The definitive book on the distinctive history and psychology of ISIS, based on Wood's unprecedented access to the Islamic State's own recruiters and supporters, and his extensive time reporting throughout the region. Based on interviews with Islamic State members and supporters, Wood delivers a fast-paced, riveting narrative about what the Islamic State wants and how it plans to get it. The true story of the on-the-ground reality of the wealthiest, most infamous jihadist group in our world today. A deep dive into the heart of the Islamic State's apocalyptic worldview, this is a bracing look at this terrorist cult from the people who belong to it, promote it and recruit for it.
Subjects: IS (Organization); Terrorists; Terrorists; Terrorism; Terrorism;
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The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit / by Finkel, Michael,author.;
"For readers of Jon Krakauer and The Lost City of Z, a remarkable tale of survival and solitude--the true story of a man who lived alone in a tent in the Maine woods, never talking to another person and surviving by stealing supplies from nearby cabins for twenty-seven years. In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even in winter, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store food and water, to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothes, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed, but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of the why and how of his secluded life--as well as the challenges he has faced returning to the world. A riveting story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded"--Publisher description.
Subjects: Biographies.; Knight, Christopher Thomas, 1965-; Hermits; Recluses; Thieves; Survival; Solitude;
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At the strangers' gate : arrivals in New York / by Gopnik, Adam,author.;
"A vivid memoir that captures the energy, ambition, and romance of New York in the 80s from the beloved New Yorker writer, to stand alongside his bestselling Paris to the Moon and Through the Children's Gate. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife Martha Parker left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young and the arty and ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Stranger's Gate builds a portrait of this moment in New York through the story of their journey -- from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to their tiny basement room on the Upper East Side -- the smallest apartment in Manhattan -- and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. Between tender, laugh-out-loud reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of New York luminaries from Richard Avedon to Robert Hughes and Jeff Koons, Gopnik takes us into the corridors of Condé Nast, the galleries of MoMA and many places between to illuminate the fascinating world capital of creativity and aspiration that is New York, then and now"--
Subjects: Gopnik, Adam; Gopnik, Adam;
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A stranger on the beach [sound recording] / by Campbell, Michele,1962-author.; LaVoy, January,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by January LaVoy."From the bestselling author of It's Always the Husband comes a novel about a love triangle that begins on a fateful night ... There is a stranger outside Caroline's house. Her spectacular new beach house, built for hosting expensive parties and vacationing with the family she thought she'd have. But her husband is lying to her and everything in her life is upside down, so when the stranger, Aidan, shows up as a bartender at the same party where Caroline and her husband have a very public fight, it doesn't seem like anything out of the ordinary. As her marriage collapses around her and the lavish lifestyle she's built for herself starts to crumble, Caroline turns to Aidan for comfort ... and revenge. After a brief and desperate fling that means nothing to Caroline and everything to him, Aidan's obsession with Caroline, her family, and her house grows more and more disturbing. And when Caroline's husband goes missing, her life descends into a nightmare that leaves her accused of her own husband's murder. A Stranger on the Beach is Strangers on a Train meets Fatal Attraction in Michele Campbell's edge-of your-seat story of passion and intrigue."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Adultery; Man-woman relationships; Married people; Murder; Stalking; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);
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Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America / by Luo, Michael,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From New Yorker editor and writer Michael Luo, a vivid, urgent history of two centuries of Chinese exclusion and the birth of anti-Asian feeling in America. In 1889, when the Supreme Court upheld the Chinese Exclusion Act-a measure barring Chinese laborers from entering the United States that remained in effect for more than fifty years -- Justice Stephen Johnson Field characterized the Chinese as a people "residing apart by themselves." They were, Field concluded, "strangers in the land." Today, there are more than twenty-two million people of Asian descent in the United States, yet this label still hovers over Asian Americans. In Strangers in the Land, Luo traces anti-Asian feeling in America to the first wave of immigrants from China in the mid-nineteenth-century: laborers who traveled to California in search of gold and railroad work. Their communities almost immediately faced mobs of white vigilantes who drove them from their workplaces and homes. In his rich, character-driven history, Luo tells stories like that of Denis Kearney, the sandlot demagogue who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement, and of activists who fought back, like Massachusetts Senator George Frisbie Hoar and newspaperman Wong Chin Foo. After the halt on immigration in 1889, the Chinese-American community who remained struggled to survive and thrive on the margins of American life. In 1965, when LBJ's Immigration and Nationality Act forbade discrimination by national origin, America opened its doors wide to families like those of Luo's parents, but he finds that the centuries of exclusion of Chinese-Americans left a legacy: many Asians are still treated, and feel, like outsiders today. Strangers in the Land is a sweeping narrative of a forgotten chapter in American history, and a reminder that America's present reflects its exclusionary past"--
Subjects: United States.; Chinese Americans; Chinese;
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