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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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"Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland - throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt....
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a remote Australian desert, a geologist and a businessman strike a deal to go on a cross country journey together. As they encounter life or death situations, it is clear that neither of them will ever be the same person they were at the beginning.
3) Red
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A seductive story of forbidden love and the unknowable mystery of coincidence as a young model meets an unusual stranger.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption; before everything goes to hell.
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Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
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Series
Publisher
TED Books, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
107 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"When Strangers Meet argues for the pleasures and transformative possibilities of talking to people you don't know. Our lives are increasingly insular. We are in a hurry, our heads are down, minds elsewhere, we hear only the voices we already recognize and rarely take the effort to experience something or someone new. Talking to strangers pulls you into experiences of shared humanity and creates genuine emotional connections. It opens your world....
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"t's been said that all great literature boils down to one of two stories-a man takes a journey, or a stranger comes to town. While mystery writers have been successfully using both approaches for generations, there's something undeniably alluring in the nature of a stranger: the uninvited guest, the unacquainted neighbor, the fish out of water. No matter how or where they appear, strangers are walking mysteries, complete unknowns in once-familiar...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two strangers, a criminal named Milan and a retired poetry teacher, Manesquier, meet in a sleepy French village and gradually become unlikely friends. As their friendship grows, each develops a desire to trade his life with that of the other.
9) The favor
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
Staying is dangerous. Leaving could be worse. Leah and McKenna have never met, though they have parallel lives. They don't-ever-find themselves in the same train carriage or meet accidentally at the gym or the coffee shop. They don't-ever-discuss their problems and find common ground. They don't-ever-acknowledge toeach other that although their lives have all the trappings of success, wealth and happiness, they are, in fact, trapped. Because Leah...
10) Anxious people
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Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
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Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
13) Caught
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After noticing a military presence nearby, two married journalists open their home to a couple of strangers and an interview turns into a fight for survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
16) Following
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Physical Desc
1 DVD (71 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A story about a young man's obsession with following strangers at random on the street. This life leads him into a dark underworld, when he is caught in the act by a man who becomes part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. Together they break into flats and pry into the personal lives of their victims.
17) Your name
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he's never been to. What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?
18) 13 sins
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A man desperate for money receives a phone call from a mysterious stranger and learns that he is on a hidden-camera game show where he must complete a series of sinister challenges to earn millions of dollars.
19) Happenstance
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A coincidental romance about six complete strangers affected by chance encounters during the course of one day.
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"Just in time for the centennial celebration of groundbreaking noir fiction writer Patricia Highsmith comes a reissue of her propulsive, engrossing debut, Strangers on a Train, with a new introduction by best-selling author Paula Hawkins. Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he'll murder Haines's...
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