Rachel Ward
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When a young woman is attacked walking home from her local supermarket, Bea Jordan, a smart but unfulfilled checkout girl, is determined to investigate. Colleagues and customers become suspects; secrets are uncovered. While fear stalks the town, Bea finds an unlikely ally in Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee, but risks losing the people she loves most as death comes close to home.
2) Dead Stock
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I'm scared of anyone with a knife and a grudge.' New Year dawns and something is rotten in Kingsleigh. With a body on the bypass and pet cats going missing, supermarket sleuths Ant and Bea have a new case. But juggling problems at work and home takes its toll and as they near the truth, more than one secret is going to come out.
3) Expiry Date
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Bea's favorite customer, Julie, hasn't been seen for weeks. Her abusive husband, Dave, claims she's left him but Bea can't shake the feeling something worse has happened. When a body is found, it seems to confirm her fears - until it comes out that the corpse is fifteen years old. Where is Julie? Who is the dead girl? And what was her connection to Bea's late father? Ant and Bea are back with their most personal case yet.
4) Infinity
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Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
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Series
Numbers volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
339 p.; 22 cm.
Description
Like his mother, Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
6) Numbers
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Series
Numbers volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
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Chastity Riley novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues' lives...
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Chastity Riley novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Night after night, cars are set alight across the German city of Hamburg, with no obvious pattern, no explanation and no suspect. Until, one night, on Mexico Street, a ghetto of high-rise blocks in the north of the city, a Fiat is torched. Only this car isn't empty. The body of Nouri Saroukhan - prodigal son of the Bremen clan - is soon discovered, and the case becomes a homicide. Public prosecutor Chastity Riley is handed the investigation, which...
9) Blue night
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Chastity Riley novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
182 pages : map ; 20 cm
Description
"After convicting a superior for corruption and shooting off a gangster's crown jewels, the career of Hamburg's most hard-bitten state prosecutor, Chastity Riley, has taken a nose dive: she has been transferred to the tedium of witness protection to prevent her making any more trouble. However, when she is assigned to the case of an anonymous man lying under police guard in hospital - almost every bone in his body broken, a finger cut off, and refusing...
11) Against all odds
Pub. Date
c1984
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Terry Brogan, a cynical ex-football star, is hired to find Jessie Wyler, the runaway mistress of a ruthless L.A. nightclub owner, Jake Wise. According to Jake, Jessie had stabbed him and vanished with $50,000. But Terry's mission is soon forgotten when he tracks down the beautiful Jessie on a Mexican island and falls in love with her.
12) The thorn birds
Pub. Date
c2011
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3 videodiscs (487 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptation of Colleen McCullough's epic novel about an Australian priest torn by personal desires and ambition. This title has been repackaged. Disc one contains episodes 1 and 2; disc two contains episodes 3 and 4; disc three contains extra content.
13) Sharky's machine
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
An Atlanta cop whose gung-ho tactics on a narcotics case get him demoted to the vice squad. There he transforms a colorful crew into a machine aimed at bigger prey: crime lord Victor D'Anton.
14) Double Jeopardy
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Jack Hart enjoys a wonderful life with his lawyer wife and young daughter, but when his old girlfriend Lisa comes to town, events are set in motion that threaten to tear Jack and his family apart.
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In this heartfelt sequel to Lilies of the Field, also helmed by award-winning director Ralph Nelson, Billy Dee Williams reprises the role of Homer Smith, originated by Sidney Poitier. Completing a tour of duty in the army, Homer returns to the chapel he helped build and is cajoled by Mother Maria into building an orphanage.
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Blackbeard volume 2
Description
The quintessential story set in the Golden Age of Piracy continues as Blackbeard rises to become the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. Stars Jessica Chastain, Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, and Stacy Keach.
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Blackbeard volume 1
Description
The quintessential story set in the Golden Age of Piracy continues as Blackbeard rises to become the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. Stars Jessica Chastain, Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, and Stacy Keach.