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Leverage focuses on a team led by former insurance investigator turned thief, Nate Ford. His cohorts include Sophie Devereaux, a brilliant grifter; Eliot Spencer, a retrieval specialist; Alec Hardison, a gadget and technology wizard; and Parker, a slightly off-center thief adept at rappelling off buildings. Together, they try to level the playing field for people whose lives have been destroyed by the rich and powerful.

'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of...

"Paul Rudnick is a champion of truth (and love and great wicked humor) whom we ignore at our peril." —David Sedaris, author of Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

This definitive collection of Paul Rudnick's plays presents the pinnacle of theatrical hilarity from one of America's great humorists. Popular for his wickedly funny novels, including I'll Take It and Social Disease, comic screenplays like In & Out

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"Dark family secrets, the lore of the sea, and a tender, protective friendship between women all converge in The Speed of Mercy, an unusual and surprising story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. With subtle humour, Conlin picks the locks on the long-closed doors of two families and bares the ugly, painful skeletons everyone knew were there but chose to hide." — Sylvia D. Hamilton, author of And I Alone Escaped To Tell You

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Captain Tom MacWhirr is not a man of imagination. A stoic, literal-minded sailor of the British Merchant Marine, he commands the Nan-Shan with quiet, unshakeable routine, finding the flamboyant language of weather reports "unprofessional" and unnecessary. When his steamer, laden with a cargo of Chinese coolies and their hard-earned silver dollars, enters the ominous fringe of a monstrous typhoon, his unimaginative nature faces its ultimate trial. Ignoring...

"Mystifying murder muddling your mind? Have no fear, Sister Boniface is back. It's the mid 60's in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Great Slaughter and the social calendar is full. There's the Christmas Pantomime, the annual Scarecrow Festival, a surprise birthday ceilidh and of course the Quincentennial Celebrations. What could possibly go wrong? Plenty! The cast of Cinderella drops like flies, a killer scarecrow stalks the streets, a bucking...

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy delivers a stunning performance as devoted father Bill Furlong in this film based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Claire Keegan. While working as a coal merchant to support his family, he discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

A woman seeks revenge against the man who abducted her mother.

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For readers of J. Ryan Stradal and The Music of Bees (with a dash of FX's The Bear) comes a quirky and refreshing epistolary novel about a family of culture-shocked Brooklynites transplanted to Goodnight, Kansas and their fight for their unexpected lifeline: the legendary May Day Diner.

Welcome to Goodnight, Kansas.

Population: Many Kansans, three New Yorkers,

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"As war engulfs Germany, sixteen-year-old Helmuth Hübener begins to question the Nazi propaganda surrounding him. When his trusted bishop urges obedience to Hitler, and his Jewish friend disappears, Helmuth's doubts turn to defiance. Standing against the regime, he spreads forbidden truths through secret leaflets--until his courage draws the attention of Erwin Müssener, a ruthless Nazi official determined to silence him, With his friends Karl and...