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241) China dolls: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the 'Chop Suey Circuit'--America's extravagant all-Asian revues of the 1930s and '40s--and endure...
Author
Series
Adventures of Jo Schmo volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grade superhero Jo Schmo and her drooling dog Raymond go back in time to stop the infamous and stinky outlaw Wyatt Burp.
243) Vertigo
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe fear of heights. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scottie to follow his wife, who may be suicidal, Scottie finds himself falling in love with her. Eventually Ferguson becomes obsessed with the chance to re-create her in another woman.
244) Mrs. Doubtfire
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An out of work father find himself suddenly divorced without custody of his kids. To solve this problem, he disguises himself as an old Scottish nanny to get hired by his ex-wife and to be closer to his kids.
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.
246) Basic instinct
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When body of a washed-up rocker is found riddled with puncture wounds, his arms tied to his bed, suspicion immediately falls on his frequent sexual partner Catherine Tramell. In the wealthy, sexually aggressive mystery writer's most recent novel, a rock star is murdered in precisely the same way. Is the book a perfect alibi, or is she pulling a double-reverse bluff? San Francisco homicide detective Nick Curran has a violent past, an addictive nature,...
247) The bell in the fog
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
Publisher
CBS Paramount Network Television
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Paladin is the man in black, six-gun on his hip, willing to face any kind of trouble for a price. From the sun-baked corners of the desolate desert to the hardscrabble homesteads of desperate squatters, Paladin always gets the job done. Included are nineteen episodes.
Language
English
Description
"Chris Gardner es un padre de familia que lucha por sobrevivir. A pesar de sus valientes intentos para mantener a la familia a flote, la madre de su hijo de cinco años Christopher comienza a derrumbarse a causa de la tensión constante de la presión económica; incapaz de soportarlo, en contra de sus sentimientos, decide marcharse. Chris, convertido ahora en padre soltero, tenazmente continúa buscando un trabajo mejor pagado empleando todas las...
251) Irresistible forces
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When Meredith Whitman's career as an investment banker leads her from New York to San Fancisco, her husband Steve; a trauma ward physician, promises to follow but circumstances keep them apart.
252) Hereafter
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This film peers at an intriguing question--is there an afterlife?--through the lens of George, Marie, and Marcus, who are each tortured in different ways by the thought of life after death. George Lonegan is psychic. It was once his career: he was "the man who can speak to the dead," with a high-traffic website, and a popular biography. But he fled that life, unable to cope with the emotional burden of his abilities. Marie Lelay is a French TV presenter...
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