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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...
2) Stolen
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British city-dweller Gemma is abducted while on vacation and taken to the Australian outback, where she realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
3) Floodgate
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
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354 pages ; 22 cm
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Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one-man crusade against conspiracies he can't prove. Andy's investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
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381 p. ; 25 cm.
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A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. He offers a generous buyout to the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building. But one resident-- Masterji--...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2013.
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193 pages ; 22 cm
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"One snowy holiday morning in an old European city, an American man leaves his shabby hotel to meet a local woman who has agreed to help him search for an apartment to rent. Told with an affecting and intimate tone that gradually expands in scope, intensity, poetry, and drama, THE APARTMENT follows the couple across a vague and frozen city on a single day, into a past the man is hoping to forget, and leaving them at the doorstep of an uncertain future....
8) Goliath
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2022.
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"Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that...
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New York Confidential volume 4
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Douglas Island sits off the coast of New York State, its imposing cliffs warning away visitors. Still, Finn Douglas has big plans for his inheritance and the rambling manor house that dominates the landscape. He has a vision to turn the island into a resort getaway for overworked city dwellers. But when the broken body of his business partner is found at the base of the rocky escarpment, he fears it wasn't an accident. Special Agent Craig Frasier...
10) Gris
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Gerbera Ediciones
Pub. Date
2020
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37 unnumbered pages : illustrations (black and white, sepia tone, some color) ; 25 cm
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"Como era de esperarse, todo era gris en la ciudad. Pero en lo más alto, en un departamento modesto, vivia el señor conejo quien atesoraba un lugar muy especial." --
"As expected, everything was gray in the city. But at the top, in a modest apartment, lived Mr. Rabbit who treasured a very special place." --
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Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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373 pages ; 25 cm
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In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
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A mother and daughter confront respective challenges, cope with celebrity and work through tragedy while maintaining an idyllic facade to the outside world, in an uplifting tale.
"[A] heartwarming and inspirational novel about a mother and daughter who face challenges, cope with celebrity, and overcome tragedy while maintaining the outward appearance of . . . A PERFECT LIFE. The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, and grace, Blaise McCarthy...
14) The rabbit hutch
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
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338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.
15) People on Sunday
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Criterion collection volume 569
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (73 min.) : si., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
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An effervescent, sunlit silent film about a handful of city dwellers enjoying a weekend outing that offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin. A unique hybrid of documentary and fictional storytelling, the film was both an experiment and a mainstream hit that would influence generations of film artists around the world. People On Sunday represents an astonishing confluence of talent, an early collaboration by a group of German filmmakers who would...
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I am a cat barista volume 2
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Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
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128 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 21 cm
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I am a dog pâtissier. At Cafe Hachiware, worn-out city dwellers may find a cozy sanctuary and a comforting beverage from the cheerful cat barista. When Mitsubachi Kanae stops by for a visit, she encounters a friendly dog pâtissier, fresh out of work! Can the cat barista serve up something to soothe the pup's sadness...and perhaps give the master baker a job?
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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206 pages ; 21 cm
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"From White Review Short Story Prize winner Julia Armfield, a brilliant, provocative debut story collection for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Kelly Link. In her electrifying debut, Julia Armfield explores women's experiences in contemporary society, mapped through their bodies. As urban dwellers' sleeps become disassociated from them, like Peter Pan's shadow, a city turns insomniac. A teenager entering puberty finds her body transforming in...
18) Last night
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Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
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1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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At the stroke of midnight, the world is going to end. With time running out, a crazy group of big city dwellers is determined to go out with a bang.
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New York Confidential volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (9hr.,17min.,13sec.))
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TREASURE OR TREACHERY? Douglas Island sits off the coast of New York State, its imposing cliffs warning away visitors. Still, Finn Douglas has big plans for his inheritance and the rambling manor house that dominates the landscape. He has a vision to turn the island into a resort getaway for overworked city dwellers. But when the broken body of his business partner is found at the base of the rocky escarpment, he fears it wasn’t an accident. Special...
20) Micmacs
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Orphaned at a young age when his father died in a land mine explosion, and now left precariously injured and homeless after being struck by a stray bullet, Bazil is taken in by a wacky group of junkyard dwellers who band together with him when he sets out for revenge against the weapons manufacturers responsible for his misfortune.
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