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- An honest man / by Koryta, Michael,author.;
- ""I am a killer, and I am an honest man." Israel Pike thinks to himself as he sits in police custody. It's been several days since he discovered the bodies of seven men, butchered aboard their yacht. Israel had climbed aboard to investigate when he saw the boat floating listlessly, but his interference at the scene and connection to one of the deceased has made him the FBI's prime suspect. And elsewhere on the island is 12-year-old Lyman Rankin, who, when hiding in a nearby shack from his raging, alcoholic father, discovers he is not alone. A woman, bloody and dripping wet with a hatchet in hand greets him in the doorway: "Make a sound and I'll kill you" she threatens"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Ex-convicts; Human trafficking; Murder; Suspects (Criminal investigation);
- Fool's gold [videorecording (DVD)] / by Claflin, John; De Line, Donald; Dziena, Alexis,1984; Goldmann, Bernie; Hart, Kevin; Hudson, Kate,1979; Klane, Jon; McConaughey, Matthew,1969; Sutherland, Donald,1934; Tennant, And; Warner, Malcolm-Jama; Winstone, Ray,1957; Zelman, Daniel; De Line Pictures (Firm; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ; Warner Home Video (Firm;
- Director of photography, Don Burgess ; editors, Troy Takaki, Tracey Wadmore-Smith ; music, George Fenton ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Charles Wood.Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone, Kevin Hart, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants to help him find the treasure. Moe is an old mentor of Finn's who also happens to be looking for the same treasure. Watching both is gangster rapper Bigg Bunny who Finn owes money to. Finn and Tess discover a clue as to where the fortune may lie. Now all Finn has to do is get the gold, get the girl, and get going before Bigg Bunny gets himCanadian Home Video Rating: PGDVD ; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation
- Subjects: Comedy film; Fathers and daughters; Feature film; Galleons; Man-woman relationships; Treasure troves;
- © c2008., Warner Home Video,
- The seaplane on final approach : a novel / by Rukeyser, Rebecca,1985-author.;
- "A 'lusty, funny, heart-breaking' (Carmen Maria Machado) debut about a sex-obsessed young woman seeking out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island WildernessLodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Lew and Maureen's lodge is failing, as is their marriage. Eighteen-year-old Mira has been hired for the season as the lodge's baker and housekeeper. But she's also busy gleefully nursing twin obsessions: building a working theory of American sleaze and pursuing a young fisherman she's determined is the embodiment of all things deliciously sleazy. Her plans become more perverse and elaborate, even as life on Lavender Island starts to unravel. By midseason, it becomes clear that Lew, the jovial, predatory patriarch of the lodge, has turned his sexual attentions to another young employee. As the mood of the lodge spirals into chaos, the inhabitants of the lodge realize just how isolated Lavender Island really is. Hilarious, sensual, and charged with menace, The Seaplane on Final Approach brilliantly illuminates the mirage-thin line between the artificial and the feral, and between a young woman's potential and her actual becoming. In this daring and psychologically razor-sharp debut, Rukeyser's characters tear aside the façade of good manners to reveal all of our deepest needs and naked desires"--
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Humorous fiction.; Novels.; Desire; Wilderness lodges;
- Fresh off the boat. [videorecording] / by Park, Randall,actor.; Wheeler, Forrest,actor.; Wu, Constance,1982-actor.; Yang, Hudson,2003-actor.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.,publisher.;
- Hudson Yang, Randall Park, Constance Wu, Forrest Wheeler, Lucille Soong.Set in the mid-1990s, and inspired by a true story, FRESH OFF THE BOAT stars Hudson Yang as 11-year-old, hip-hop-loving Eddie Huang, who, with his family, is adjusting to a new life in suburban Orlando. Faced with new schools, new friends, new neighbors -- and new traditions -- the Huangs stay true to their family values as they pursue the American Dream. Dad Louis (Randall Park) moved his family from Chinatown in Washington, D.C., and turned the once-struggling Cattleman's Ranch into a successful steakhouse, fully equipped with a mechanical bull. Mom Jessica (Constance Wu) is a real estate agent, yet still finds time to bond with the neighbor over cocktails and Stephen King novels. Meanwhile, Eddie sometimes defies his mother's old-school parenting, but realizes she's got nothing but love for him and his brothers Emery (Forrest Wheeler) and Evan (Ian Chen).PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Television comedies.; Families; Nineteen nineties; Restaurateurs; Suburban life; Taiwanese Americans;
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- The covenant of water : a novel / by Verghese, Abraham,1955-author.;
- "From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning-and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala's long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl--and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi--will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants. A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. Imbued with humor, deep emotion, and the essence of life, it is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years"--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Drowning; Families;
- The demon of unrest : a saga of hubris, heartbreak, and heroism at the dawn of the Civil War / by Larson, Erik,1954-author.;
- Includes bibliographical references and index."On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln's election and the Confederacy's shelling of Sumter--a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were "so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them." At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter's commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable--one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans. Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink--a dark reminder that we often don't see a cataclysm coming until it's too late"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.; Presidents;
- Ariel's brave kitten / by Koster, Amy Sky.; Disney Storybook Artists.;
- Welcome to the magical world of Palace Pets, where each Disney Princess has a furry pet to love and care for! Treasure is an adorable kitten that loves sneaking onto Prince Eric's boat, but what happens when she gets caught? She becomes Ariel's special Palace Pet! (Includes Stickers).Preschool-Kindergarten.LSC
- Subjects: Ariel (Mermaid); Cats; Pets; Princesses;
- Partners in lime / by Baker, Bree.;
- Everly will have to go against the tide to crack this case! It all seems to be smooth sailing for Everly Swan. The island of Charm, North Carolina is hosting tons of fun summer events, her iced tea shop is a hit, and best of all, she's finally dating the handsome Detective Grady Hays. But their romantic bubble bursts when tragedy strikes: a surf-pro is found murdered on the beach, killed with a theater prop. Grady follows the evidence, all of which points to Matt, Everly's friend and one-time fling. As Grady does his job, so does Everly-her unofficial chef-turned-sleuth-job, that is. She's determined to clear her friend's name but the arrival of a fancy new teashop and The Town Charmer, a gossip blog determined to rock the boat, complicates things. As Everly tries to keep rumors at bay and investigate the murder (and her new tea rival), the killer leaves a message in the sand...
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Swan, Everly (Fictitious character); Businesswomen; Tearooms; Seaside resorts; Murder;
- The sirens : a novel / by Hart, Emilia,author.;
- "A spellbinding novel about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea, from the author of the runaway New York Times bestseller Weyward 2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover's throat. Horrified, she flees to her older sister's house on the Australian coast, hoping she can help explain the strangely vivid nightmare that preceded the attack-but Jess is nowhere to be found. As Lucy awaits her return, the rumors surrounding Jess's strange small town start to emerge. Numerous men have gone missing at sea, spread over decades. A tiny baby was found hidden in a cave. And sailors tell of hearing women's voices on the waves. Desperate for answers, Lucy finds and begins to read her sister's adolescent diary. 1999: Jess is a lonely sixteen-year-old in a rural town in the middle of the continent. Diagnosed with a rare allergy to water, she has always felt different, until her young, charming art teacher takes an interest in her drawings, seeing a power and maturity in them-and in her-that no one else has. 1800: Twin sisters Mary and Eliza have been torn from their loving father in Ireland and forced onto a convict ship bound for Australia. For their entire lives, they've feared the ocean, as their mother tragically drowned when they were just girls. Yet as the boat bears them further and further from all they know, they begin to notice changes in their bodies that they can't explain, and they feel the sea beginning to call to them ... A breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, The Sirens captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea"--
- Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Novels.; Convict ships; Family secrets; Nightmares; Sisters; Visions; Women; Women;
- Schoolgirl missing / by Fortin, Sue,author.;
- "When fourteen-year-old Poppy vanishes on a family boating trip, suspicion soon turns close to home -- to the two people who should do everything to keep her safe, her parents, Kit and Neve. Neve has a secret. Kit is lying. Everyone is watching. Who do you believe?" -- Page [4] of cover.
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Missing children; Family secrets; Parent and child; Suspicion;
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