Noah Hawley
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"On a foggy summer night, eleven people--ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter--depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath of...
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"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
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Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. When a Democratic candidate for president is shot at a rally, Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. His father, a doctor, struggles to understand why. Is he trying to save Daniel from the probable death penalty-- or to assuage his own guilt about his son's destiny?
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Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is foundering and his wife, Claudia, has gone to Chicago to visit her mother. But if Claudia is in Chicago, how is it that two FBI agents show up at Linus' office and inform him that Claudia has been killed in a plane crash on her way from New York to Brazil? And why did a man named Jeffrey Holden, the vice president of a major pharmaceutical...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Laurie is a wedding photographer who has photographed more than a thousand weddings over the last ten years. One morning, she wakes up and wonders what happened to all those couples. She starts making calls. Some of them are still together. Others have split up. She begins a photography project to document what happens to love after the wedding. She photographs widowers and divorcees, homewreckers and stalkers.
She is still photographing weddings,...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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This companion to the first three seasons of the award-winning, celebrated TV drama is packed with script selections (including all three pilots), candid behind-the-scenes photography, pitch documents, and interviews with cast and crew.
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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On a foggy summer night, eleven people -- ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter -- depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs -- the painter -- and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. With chapters weaving between the aftermath...
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Wydawnictwo Sonia Draga
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Polish
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"Mglista, letnia noc 23 sierpnia 2015 roku. Z lotniska w Martha's Vineyard wylatuje prywatny samolot z jedenastoma osobami na pokładzie, dziesięcioma zamożnymi i mężczyzną - malarzem - któremu ostatnio nie wiedzie się w życiu najlepiej. To ma być krótki, zaledwie dwudziestodziewięciominutowy lot do Nowego Jorku. Stewardesa serwuje drinki, w telewizji leci mecz baseballowy, nic nie zapowiada tego, co wydarzy się za nieco ponad kwadrans....
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MGM Television Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. It features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo, is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly Solverson are the small-town police officers who join forces...
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20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Legion follows the story of David Haller, a man who believed he was schizophrenic but discovered he might be the most powerful mutant in the world. With help from a team of specialists, David harnessed his unique abilities and learned he had been haunted by a malicious parasite. Now, David is all that stands in the way of Amahl Farouk from attaining infinite and world-ending power.
13) Lies & alibis
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Nobody's better at lies-for-hire than retired grifter Ray Elliott. His alibi service for cheating spouses is doing a bang-up business. But when a new client accidentally kills his mistress during a weekend tryst, the desperate Ray has to enlist his fast-thinking assistant, Lola to help the mastermind with one final con. They have to outwit the cops, blackmailers and hit men who are out to bury him.