Joe Mantegna
Author
Language
English
Description
An edgy, offbeat story about two used car salesmen moonlighting as hit men for the mob. A quiet family man by day, Tom teaches his new partner Jerry all he knows about his other job, that of professional killer! But even if he's shocked at first, the brash young Jerry soon acquires such a taste for his new profession that it scares everyone around him...even those who scare people for a living!
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 51
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The beautiful wife of one of the world's richest men comes to Spenser hoping that he can find out what skeletons lurk in her husband's closet. Though he is a generous philanthropist and loving family man, she is concerned, he has recently become secretive, bordering on paranoid, and she wants Spenser to find out why. As Spenser digs into the billionaire's past, he realizes that the man may have done terrible things on his rise to the top, but he also...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is a powerful woman. Intelligent, successful, and beautiful, she can bring almost any man to his knees...right where she wants them. But when a night of unbridled sexual abandon results in the death of a prominent businessman, Rebecca finds herself on trial for murder. Now it's up to her attorney (Willem Dafoe) to prove her innocence...but when he becomes entangled in her web of erotic games, his road to the truth proves...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again. But with her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other.
6) Broken trust
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 51
Language
English
Description
Spenser investigates the past secrets of an elusive tech billionaire in this latest installment of Robert B. Parker’s beloved series, and the first written by celebrated writer Mike Lupica.
Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura,...
Andrew Crain has it all: a brilliant scientist and astute businessman, his groundbreaking work with lithium has made him one of the world’s richest men. He is universally adored and admired; that is, until Crain’s beautiful wife, Laura,...
8) Forget Paris
Author
Language
English
Description
Mickey knows about marriage. He knows it won't work if one partner is happy and the other miserable. No, a successful marriage requires both to be miserable! Love is such sweet misery in the witty story of when basketball referee Mickey (Billy Crystal) met airline employee Ellen (Debra Winger). They fall head over croissants for each other in Paris, then reluctantly move on to pursue their careers, only to reunite passionately and make feverish domestic-bliss...
Author
Language
English
Description
Hollywood favorites Robert Redford (Indecent Proposal) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Dangerous Minds) sizzle together in this acclaimed story of heated passion and burning ambition! When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater (Pfeiffer) tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice (Redford) will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news...and she teaches him how to love again! But with her rise from local...
10) Alice
Author
Language
English
Description
A mousy, pampered woman who married well tries to find herself and contemplates the unthinkable--an extramarital affair.
12) Eye For An Eye
Author
Language
English
Description
Two-time Academy-Award® winner Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland and Ed Harris star in this riveting thriller about the search for justice in an unjust world. Karen McCann's (Sally Field) orderly life is shattered when a stranger breaks into her home and murders her 17-year-old daughter. But shock and grief turn into rage and disbelief when the killer (Sutherland) is released on a legal technicality. When he commits another murder - and is set free...
Author
Language
English
Description
The symptoms: acute tickling of the funny bone and sever belly laughs. The diagnosis? Richard Pryor in Critical Condition. Playing a criminal who fakes insanity to avoid prison, Pryor ends up in a hospital mental ward. That's when the craziness starts as he escapes during a blackout and disguises himself as a doctor. Somehow Pryor brings order to chaos even while performing unorthodox physical examinations, delivering a baby and using a helicopter...