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Fed up with answering to higher-ups, Nick, Dale, and Kurt decide to become their own bosses by launching their own business. But a slick investor soon pulls the rug out from under them. Outplayed and desperate, and with no legal recourse, the three would-be entrepreneurs hatch a misguided plan to kidnap the investoŕєєs adult son and ransom him to regain control of their company.
2) Get hard
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Millionaire hedge fund manager James chooses to use his 30 days before going to San Quentin to serve time for fraud to prepare for a life behind bars, and gets Darnell to help him.
4) Crisis
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new non-addictive painkiller to market....
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[2016]
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English
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In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
6) Zoolander
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3-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival, Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel, with the help of a women reporter, must save the world from an evil clothes manufacture.
7) Dark waters
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything - his future, his family, and his own life - to expose the truth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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870L
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After a quarrel over her decision to follow in her grandfather's footsteps and run for Congress, Nell MacDermott's husband dies in a boat explosion, and Nell, who has long possessed psychic gifts, must find out who killed him before she becomes the next victim.
9) Forsaken
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An embittered gunslinger attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
10) The assistant
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The Assistant follows one day in the life of Jane, a recent college graduate and aspiring film producer, who has recently landed her dream job as a junior assistant to a powerful entertainment mogul. As Jane follows her daily routine, she, and viewers, grow increasingly aware of the abuse that insidiously colors every aspect of her workday, an accumulation of degradations against which Jane decides to take a stand, only to discover the true depth...
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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When an international terrorist cult threatens global political stability and kidnaps a fellow agent. Sniper Brandon Beckett and the newly formed Global Response & Intelligence Team - or G.R.I.T. - led by Colonel Stone mus travel across the world to Malta, infitrate the cult, and take out it's leader to free Lady Death and stop the global threat. Ryan Robbins and Josh Brener co-star in this globetrotting entry to the Sniper franchise.
12) Bent
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher's quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official's wife. When Gallagher learns that the woman's secret lover was a seductive federal agent, he finds himself under fire. But from whom, his own cops, a vengeful drug lord, the CIA, or someone even more ruthless?
13) Misconduct
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
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"Piper Winslow's life is destroyed when her mother is arrested for kidnapping her as an infant. With her mom in jail and her real family about to reclaim her as Greta--her birth name--what can she do? Run, of course. Dominating national headlines while eluding authorities, Piper and an unlikely passenger take a harrowing cross-country adventure. When she is discovered and returned to her real family, not everyone is happy to see her. This family that...
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2023.
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English
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"A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photoqueues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks...
20) Flywheel
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English
Description
Jay Austin wants to sell used cars in the worst way...and that's exactly how he does business at his dealership. Promising much more than he can ever deliver, he'll do whatever it takes to sell a car. His manipulative ways permeate all of his relationships-even his wife and son don't trust him. But as Jay works on restoring a classic convertible, he begins to see that God is working on restoring him as well. Coming face to face with the reality...
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