Joe Mantegna
41) Thinner
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Uncle Nino: Uncle Nino (an old world Italian) arrives unexpectedly from Italy and brings a family close again.
The First of May: when an unwanted boy and a forgotten old lady run away to join the circus, they feel like they have finally come home.
Safe Harbor: the true story of Doug and Robbie Smith who founded the Safe Harbor Home for Boys in Jacksonville, Florida.
Windrunner: Jim Thorpe's ghost helps a young man who is descriminated against.
44) Prime witness
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A series of bizarre murders leads to the arrest of a prime suspect and sparks the most explosive trial in lawyer Paul Madriani's career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A cat-and-mouse game between New York police and a killer, hired to eliminate a trio of witnesses in a trial. He has already killed one and detectives Lincoln Rhyme, a quadriplegic, and Amelia Sachs have to catch him before he kills the other two. By the author of The Bone Collector.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A moving and inspiring memoir from one of the greatest musical artists of all time
"My given name is Anthony Dominick Benedetto, and Benedetto in Italian means 'the blessed one.' I couldn't say it any better than that."
-Tony Bennett
Legendary singer, artist, and performer, Tony Bennett has been one of the world's most beloved entertainers for more than six decades. From the 78 to the LP to the digital age, Tony has done it all and is still at...
47) Paterno
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written with the participation of Joe Paterno and his family, this account defines the epic life of America's winningest college football coach.
48) The empty chair
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme is pitted against Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protegee, as they disagree on the analysis of a crime they began working together.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Paul Madriani was once a promising associate with a prestigious law firm, cofounded by his mentor, Ben Potter. But after a scandalous affair with Ben's wife, Paul left the firm to begin a brilliant career as a criminal defense attorney. Meanwhile, Ben's impeccable reputation has made him a leading candidate for the Supreme Court, until he is found dead on the eve of the nomination. As the evidence against Ben' s wife snowballs, Talia hires...
50) Back story
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renaissance man Spenser - he of the acerbic social commentary, the gourmet cookery, and the steely abs - turns his considerable talents to the unraveling of a thirty-year-old murder mystery. During a 1974 holdup in a Boston bank by a revolutionary group calling itself the Dread Scott Brigade, Emily Gordon, a visitor cashing traveler's checks, is shot and killed. Despite security-camera photos and a letter from the group claiming responsibility, nobody...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new Cadillac...
52) The cold moon
Author
Series
Lincoln Rhyme mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
On a freezing December night, with a full moon hovering in the black sky over New York City, two people are brutally murdered -- the death scenes marked by eerie, matching calling cards: moon-faced clocks investigators fear ticked away the victims' last moments on earth. Renowned criminologist Lincoln Rhyme immediately identifies the clock distributor and has the chilling realization that the killer -- who has dubbed himself the Watchmaker -- has...
53) Hugger Mugger
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 27
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Spenser is back and embroiled in a dangerous and multi-layered case. Someone has been killing racehorses at stables across the south, and Walter Clive, president of Three Fillies Stables, hires him to find out who. Spenser goes to Georgia to protect Hugger Mugger, a two-year-old destined to become the next Secretariat. Disregarding the resentment of the local Georgia law enforcement, he takes the case. Despite the veneer of civility, Spenser encounters...
54) Cold Service
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 32
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting booking Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to the medical technology that will ensure his physical recovery, and to reinforce the tenuous emotional ties he has to those around him.
Spenser quickly learns...
Spenser quickly learns...
55) Bad Business
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 31
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hired by Marlene Cowley to find out whether her husband Trent is cheating on her, Spenser soon realizes that the two-timing husband has hired an investigator of his own. Even more shocking for Spenser is the discovery that the Cowleys are a part of an intimate circle that regularly tunes in to the talk-show host Darin O’Mara’s unconventional—and possibly deadly—views on cross-connubial relationships. To complicate matters even...
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 41
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Previously Published as Robert B. Parker's Wonderland
NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MARK WAHLBERG AS SPENSER!
Old friends. Small favors. Bitter rivals. Stirred together, it all makes for one explosive cocktail in this New York Times bestselling thriller that has Spenser feeling the heat...
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the...
NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING MARK WAHLBERG AS SPENSER!
Old friends. Small favors. Bitter rivals. Stirred together, it all makes for one explosive cocktail in this New York Times bestselling thriller that has Spenser feeling the heat...
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the...
59) Lullaby
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 40
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother’s murder, he’s not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where...
60) House Of Games
Author
Language
English
Description
An uptight female psychiatrist (and best-selling author) attempts to intercede with a con man on behalf of one of her patients, a compulsive gambler who owes him several thousand dollars. She is sucked into a world of mirrors where nothing is what it seems...