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422 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"In the hushed quiet of early morning Manhattan, in front of the towering brass doors of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, a young woman holds a sign that reads: HELP ME. For one FBI agent, a madman's terrified hostages, and an entire city, a long and harrowing day is about to unfold. The hostage taker's identity is unknown. But he knows who FBI agent Eve Rossi is--and everything about her past. Along with her presence, he demands five witnesses: ordinary...
63) Funny games
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Criterion collection volume 975
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Deutsch
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"Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games,' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the...
64) Sanctuary
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Sanctuary novel volume 1
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465 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Prison-guard-in-training Kenzie is taken hostage by the superpowered criminals of the Sanctuary space station--only to have to band together with them when the station is attacked by mysterious creatures"--
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294 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Kidnapped, along with her young son, off a train-load of tourists, Miranda Price is held hostage on a remote reservation by Hawk O'Toole (a man desperate to help his people), only to find herself drawn to her aloof,but tender and seductive captor.
66) Ambulance
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Needing money to cover his wife's medical bills, a decorated veteran teams up with his adoptive brother to steal $32 million from a Los Angeles bank. However, when their getaway goes spectacularly wrong, the desperate thieves hijack an ambulance that's carrying a severely wounded cop and an EMT worker. Caught in a high-speed chase, the two siblings must figure out a way to outrun the law while keeping their hostages alive.
67) Power game
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When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy, disappear when necessary, and hunt along any terrain. There are those in the world willing to do anything for power like that. A formidable spy...
68) The last rescue
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1 videodisc (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Shortly after D-Day, three American soldiers and two Army Corps nurses are stranded behind enemy lines. They take a high-ranking German officer as their prisoner and try to orchestrate an escape"--Container.
69) The masked truth
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340 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Riley Vasquez is haunted by the brutal murder of the couple she was babysitting for. Max Cross is suffering under the shadow of a life-altering diagnosis he doesn't dare reveal. The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with "issues." But that's exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage. The building has no windows. The exits are sealed shut. Their...
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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New York cop John McClane is the personal target of the mysterious Simon, a terrorist determined to blow up the entire city if he doesn't get what he wants. Accompanied by an unwilling civilian, McClane careens wildly from one end of town to the other as he struggles to keep up with Simon's deadly game.
A New York detective is the target of a psychopathic terrorist planning to blow up the city if he does not get what he wants.
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389 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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¿Puede el paro convertirnos en una bomba de relojeriá? Con humor, crudeza y un realismo brutal, Lemaitre explora el lado maś inmoral del mundo empresarial y los efectos perversos que el desempleo puede llegar a tener en cualquiera de nosotros. Me llamo Alain Delambre y tengo cincuenta y siete anõs. Soy un directivo en paro. El antanõ flamante director de recursos humanos Alain Delambre ha perdido toda esperanza de encontrar trabajo y se siente...
72) Money monster
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1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
73) Too far gone
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lucy kincaid volume 16
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490 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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Lucy Kincaid is assigned to investigate the death of a mentally unstable man during a hostage situation who used to be an upstanding citizen, and whose story proves more complicated and dangerous than she initially imagines.
74) Submergence
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, a Scotsman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Thousands of miles away in the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance.
Two people meet and fall in love but have to separate...
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In death novel volume 54
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356 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Homicide detective Eve Dallas races to untangle a twisted family history while a hostage's life hangs in the balance -- in the new novel in the New York Times bestselling series"--
77) The hollow men
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Harry Kent volume 1
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English
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Immersing himself in his work as a surgeon for the London Metropolitan Police to ward off memories of his time as an army medic, Dr. Harry Kent is sent to treat a mentally ill teen who has taken hostages in a fast-food restaurant. When Solomon's life is put in danger again at a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect. Determined to uncover the secret that drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon...
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1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight and has hyperglycemia. One day a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and takes hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels it is duty as a security guard, he refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's...
80) Home free
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Sisterhood volume 20
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English
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The vigilantes of the Sisterhood reorganize as a secret group called the CIC and dedicated to serving their friend, the president of the United States, Martine Connor.
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