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"Twenty years ago, Myra Barkley's daughter disappeared from the rocky beach across from the family inn, off the Oregon coast. Ever since, Myra has waited at the front desk for her child to come home. One rainy afternoon, the miracle happens - her missing daughter, now twenty-eight years old with a child of her own, walks in the door. Elizabeth Lark is on the run with her son. She's just killed her abusive husband and needs a place to hide. Against...
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"Robin Voigt is dead. If her sister Leslie had arrived at her cramped Las Vegas apartment just hours earlier, this would have been their first reunion in a decade. In the years since Robin ran away from home as a teenager, Leslie has stayed in New Mexico, taking care of their dying father, even as she began building a family of her own. But when their father passed away, Leslie received a rude awakening: she and Robin would receive the inheritance...
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Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
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English
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"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals...
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"Greg Abimbola is a language teacher at the prestigious Calderhill Academy in Pittsburgh. Only that's not his real name...or the only secret he's hiding. When the murder of a wealthy parent on school premises shines an unwanted spotlight on Calderhill Academy, Greg is determined to avoid attention. That is until the closest person to a true friend Greg has is arrested for the murder. To prove her innocence, Greg will reluctantly emerge from the shadows....
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2021.
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English
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"Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders the members of a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when...
7) The fraud
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2023.
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English
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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"Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, has set her sights on one of history's most beguiling mysteries: Did Anastasia Romanov survive the Russian Revolution, or was Anna Anderson, the woman who notoriously claimed her identity, an impostor? Russia, July 17, 1918: Under direct orders from Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik secret police force Anastasia Romanov, along with the entire imperial family, into a damp basement in Siberia where they...
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2000
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Widescreen (aspect ratio 2.35:1) or full-frame format.
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1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Upon release from a stint in prison, Rudy impulsively decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to make time with Nick's beautiful penpal Ashley. But Rudy's ruse blows up when he realizes that Ashley was doublecrossing Nick ... and now he's inescapably part of an armed robbery plot being hatched by her evil brother.
10) The stepfather
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Widescreen version.
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1 Blu-ray (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Michael returns home from military school, he discovers that his mother has a new live-in boyfriend, David. Though he appears to fit in well with the family, Michael has a bad feeling about him. As the two men get to know each other, Michael's suspicions rise to the surface and he starts to delve into David's past. Along with his girlfriend Kelly, his biological father Jay, and his mother's friends, they slowly start to piece together the mystery...
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VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]-
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Shojo Beat edition.
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volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests. After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?
12) Arthur Newman
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Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 Blu-ray (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After suffering a midlife crisis, a man fakes his own death to assume a new identity and goes on a road trip with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
13) The other Emily
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2021.
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English
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"A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily's final...
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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jonah Hill & James Franco and Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures
When New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo–who has taken on Finkel's identity–his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkel's relentless pursuit of the shocking truth.
...15) The ivy tree
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M.S. Mill Company
Pub. Date
1962, c1961
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
17) Mail order bride
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
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1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A 19th century con woman tries to start her life over when she moves out West and assumes her deceased friend's identity, until her past threatens to destroy her future.
18) La otra
Publisher
Madera Cinevideo
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Standard version.
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1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Vengeful twin María murders her sister and assumes her identity.
19) Anastasia
Series
Studio classic volume 9
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An expatriate White Russian general sets in motion a grand hoax after he meets a destitute woman on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. He is amazed at her resemblance to Anastasia, the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas of Russia, rumored to have somehow survived the Bolsheviks' execution of the Romanoff family in 1918. He trains her to impersonate the missing princess but soon begins to feel she may be the real Anastasia. Ultimately, the truth...
20) Past due
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Series
Victor Carl novels volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
474 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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