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1) Annihilation
Series
Southern Reach trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Sherlock Holmes has always been the smartest man in the room, until now. There is a new criminal mastermind at large, Professor James Moriarty, and not only is he Holmes's intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil, coupled with a complete lack of conscience, may give him an advantage over the renowned detective. Holmes's investigation into Moriarty's plot becomes more dangerous as it leads him and Watson out of London to France, Germany, and finally...
3) Bullitt
Language
English
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Description
A star witness in a controversial court case is murdered and the police detective assigned to guard him goes after the killers himself.
Language
English
Description
Emboldened by the return of Lord Voldemort, the Death Eaters are wreaking havoc in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds. Hogwarts, once thought to be a safe haven, may no longer be safe. Harry suspects that new dangers may lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Harry will have to help him uncover a vital key to unlocking Voldemort's defenses, a critical piece...
6) Vertigo
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen edition, newly restored, collector's edition.
Language
English
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
9) Get out
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that Chris and his girlfriend, Rose, have reached the meet-the-parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with her parents, Missy and Dean. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behaviour as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries leads him to a truth that he never could have imagined....
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt Scudder is an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime, nor will it be the last. Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets...
11) Arrival
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team ,including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Move over Miss Marple, there's a smart, stylish new detective in town - meet Miss Willoughby! Orphaned as a child, raised by a family friend (Kelsey Grammer), and skilled in strategy, literature, and martial arts, there's no case she can't solve. But even she is baffled when a longtime friend tells her that a ghost is haunting the bookstore she runs. Is someone playing a trick on the poor woman? Is it a hallucination? Or is something more sinister...
14) Paycheck
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when successfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problems really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...
16) I confess
Language
English
Description
A priest is conflicted between upholding the sanctity of the confessional and breaking his vow when he is framed for the murder confessed to him by someone else.
Series
Language
English
Description
Famous detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney) is on the Orient Express, but the train is caught in the snow. When one of the passengers is discovered murdered, Poirot immediately starts investigating. Winner of the Best Supporting Actress (Ingrid Bergman) and nominated for five other **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor and nominated for seven other **BAFTA Awards.** *" [A] terrifically entertaining super-valentine...
18) The gift
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young married couple's lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret to light after more than twenty years.
19) Eyes wide shut
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manhattan physician Bill Harford's equilibrium is disrupted by a sexual revolation. At an elegant Christmas party, two 'models' hit on him, while he watches a Lothario try to pick up his tipsy wife. The next night, his wife reveals her sexual fantasies with a stranger. Bill's dead patient's daughter throws herself at him. He has homophobic insults thrown at him by six teenage boys. A prositute takes him to her flat. Later, he interrupts men having...
20) Luce
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Garnering recognition for his stellar athletic abilities and intellectual accomplishments "Luce" follows the titular characters struggle of maintaining his integrity while dealing with the circumstances of his background. Adopted from a war-torn country just ten years prior, Luce becomes the very essence of what many consider to be the American Dream. However, all changes when his teacher encounters a shocking revelation upon examining the contents...
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