Kerry Shale
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist's examination of the booming industry shaping the modern world: former journalists and spies going for hire, and financed by companies, politicians, lawyers, and the rich and powerful to excavate the lives of their enemies and opponents for dirt and secrets.
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Description
A spellbinding literary thriller about terror, war, greed, and the darkest secrets of the human soul, by the author of the million-copy bestseller The Interpretation of Murder.
Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were killed or injured. The country was appalled...
Under a clear blue September sky, America's financial center in lower Manhattan became the site of the largest, deadliest terrorist attack in the nation's history. It was September 16, 1920. Four hundred people were killed or injured. The country was appalled...
4) Plaza suite
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Neil Simon's hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams.
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Jones Library's Contemporary Book Club Reading List
Marlborough Public Library Adult Summer Reading
Springfield - AAPI Heritage Month
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Marlborough Public Library Adult Summer Reading
Springfield - AAPI Heritage Month
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"A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the Booker Prize-finalist author of A Tale for the Time Being After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their...
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Publisher
Wall to Wall Media Limited
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
200,000 years ago we took our first steps in Africa. Today there are seven billion of us living across the planet. How did our ancestors spread from continent to continent? This is a global detective story, featuring the latest archaeological discoveries and genetic research. On each continent, we track down the earliest members of our species, Homo sapiens. Who were these First Peoples? What drove them to the ends of the earth?
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[Distributed by] Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Rheneas picks the perfect Christmas tree when he finally stops to smell the evergreen. Charlie knows how fun snow can be and discovers that teamwork in the snow is the most fun of all. Edward gets Salty just what he asked for, the perfect story to re-tell and Emily learns the best way to be really useful.
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Mystery, horror, murder and madness -- Edgar Allan Poe's stories are famous for their ability to shock and intrigue. From the nightmarish world of The Pit and the Pendulum to the shrewd calculations of August Dupin, their power is undiminished even today. This release also includes some of the author's best-known poetry, including The Raven, and Annabel Lee, as well as a specially-written biography, which gives insight into the troubled psyche of...
10) The Wizard of Oz
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Dorothy and her dog Toto, whisked by]a cyclone from Kansas into the strange land of the Munchkins, set off on a magical journey. They befriend the Tinman, the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion who join her in her quest to find the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Spirit is a mischievous black bear cub who loves playing with his brothers and mom. However, one day he ventures out too far from his family and ends up stranded and lost, by the side of a busy road. Rescued just in time, he has a lot of growing up to do before he can safely return to the woods.
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age.
13) Dark justice
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Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 12
Description
A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure. When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history. It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon...
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Description
Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.
Publisher
BBC Earth
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Meet Tunya and his siblings-a litter of lively lion cubs orphaned in Zambia shortly after their birth. Without parents or an established pride to guide them, the cubs bounce into the Lion School run by a conservation organization near Victoria Falls. Watch them tumble, play and, with a little help from their human friends, learn how to meet their wildlife neighbors, avoid dangers, be brave, and hunt for the first time. One cub--Tunya--stands out as...
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Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2000
Description
"Hardly anyone ever leaves Des Moines, Iowa. But Bill Bryson did, and after ten years in England he decided to go home--to a foreign country. In an aging Chevrolet Chevette, he drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states to compile this hilarious and perceptive state-of-the-nation report on small-town America."--Container.
18) Ruby's quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
The forests of Central and South America can be downright noisy places. Amid the whistles, howls, and chirps no animal can hold a candle to the gregarious howler monkey. With a call that can travel up to three miles, these primates are not shy about making themselves known. However, with their habitat shrinking, they are running out of space, and running into humans.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Combining undersea exploration with innovative visualizations, this series reveals hidden evidence of amazing undersea mysteries. Not 'artists impressions' but what is actually there down to the very last rivet. And, for its fourth season, it embraces a gripping new style, telling stories purely through the words of explorers and archaeologists, putting viewers right by their side.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Having lived as mobile foragers for 99 percent of our time on Earth, how and why did humans set out on the road to civilization? How did they create villages, towns, cities and states, and establish the blueprint for the modern world? Explore the seedbed civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Middle East, and the Indus Valley in this global story.