John Slattery
Author
Series
Michael Bennett ; 1
Language
English
Description
A former First Lady dies, and the world's richest and most powerful figures gather for her funeral in New York City. When a ruthless madman hijacks the ceremony and threatens to turn the memorial service into a bloodbath, Detective Michael Bennett may be the only hope for ending the desperate stand-off.
2) Duma Key
Author
Language
English
Description
Master storyteller Stephen King's classic, terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller of what happens when the barrier between our world and that of the supernatural is breached.
After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key—a...
After a terrible construction site accident severs Edgar Freemantle's right arm, scrambles his mind, and implodes his marriage, the wealthy Minnesota builder faces the ordeal of rehabilitation, all alone and full of rage. Renting a house on Duma Key—a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this
...4) The jury
Author
Language
English
Description
Incriminating evidence links Paul Madriani's client, Dr. Crone, to a murder. Then a key witness dies, leaving behind a note that seems to clear Crone -- until Madriani hits upon a damning loose end that implicates the good doctor after all.
5) Siracusa
Author
Language
English
Description
'An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from one another are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine Finn; his wife, Taylor; and their daughter, Snow. From the beginning, says Taylor,...
Author
Language
English
Description
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First, there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set the day before Pearl Harbor, American nightclub owner Harry Niles, living in Tokyo, must extricate himself from love affairs, vendettas, investigations and outright cons that he has perpetrated over the years if he is to get out of Japan before war breaks out.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "The Wordy Shipmates" comes an examination of Hawaii's emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An investigative reporter looks at the damage done by mining and manufacturing companies who refused to acknowledge the harm caused by asbestos. Focusing largely on a vermiculite mine in Libby, Montana, Michael Bowker shows how one business put its bottom line over its employees' health. Interviews with victims of asbestos poisoning and their survivors are interspersed with EPA reports, company memos and other sources, as Bowker charts asbestos's...
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
"For 300,000 years, hunting - and being hunted - was a way of life that defined humankind. Using dramatic reenactments that integrate computer animations of species long extinct, this series tells the story of how hominids and early humans prevailed over both the elements and their competition. Helpful timelines and fascinating 'how we know what we know' segments highlight key archaeological digs and fossil records"--Container.
12) Spotlight
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.--...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1960s New York City, Mad Men explores the glamorous and ego-driven 'Golden Age' of advertising, where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Welcome to a Mad New World. Returns for a new year rife with possibilities. Last season stunned fans with its cliffhanger finale, as Don Draper's professional and personal lives unexpectedly imploded.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Mad Men is back and plunges into the seductive and intriguing world of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning cast continue to mesmerize as they adapt .to changing times, social revolution, and a radical world. Lust is back. Adultery is back. Deception is back.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Returning for its sixth season, Mad Men explores the glamorous and ego-driven 'golden age' of advertising in late 1960s New York City. Don Draper and the rest of the cast continue to captivate as they deal with the aftereffects of adultery, divorce, a merger, and an ever-changing social climate.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In the glamorous and ego-driven world of advertising, everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. Set in 1960 New York, this series reveals the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue's "Golden Age," where key players make an art of the sell while their private world gets sold. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper, the biggest ad man--and ladies' man--in the business.
Publisher
1091
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Now this extraordinary story is told, a feature-length documentary that goes behind the scenes to show how a master producer brings shows to life, coaxing creativity out of chaos. The movie tells the story of Leonard, energetically working to produce Tappin Thru Life, a musical memoir starring veteran dancer and actor Maurice Hines." --
Publisher
Lions Gate Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe winning series for Best TV Drama continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
19) Mona Lisa smile
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
20) Churchill
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with...