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1) Aftermath
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a quiet Midwestern town, a deputy named Norman Young is faced with an impossible decision: arrest his older brother Ray for murder or help him cover it up. Norman chooses family. As the ensuing investigation withers, neither of the brothers is prepared for the weight of their guilt or how that guilt will strain their loyalty to each other when a passionate romance blossoms between Norman and the victim's younger sister, Frances.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Theodore 'Theo' Decker was thirteen years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love. Through it all, he holds on to one tangible piece of hope from that terrible day, a painting of a tiny bird chained to its perch.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Fear of flying: Bill says he doesn't fly much because bugs get stuck to his glasses. But when visiting pals claim he's simply afraid that he can't keep up, Bill becomes determined to take to the air. Garden variety problem: Everybody agrees to help Methuseiah out with the garden, but they forget and make other plans. As he toils in the garden, the others have trouble enjoying their day as guilt sets in.
5) From black
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young mother, crushed by guilt after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is presented with a bizarre offer to learn the truth and set things right. But is she willing to pay a terrifying price for a chance to hold her boy again?
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the cellar of an Edinburgh house, two gunshots ring out. Across town, disgraced lawyer Max McCall is released from prison. For the Leith area of Edinburgh, a bright new future is being promised. These events will entwine characters old and new, as they battle the consequences of their actions amidst shocking new developments.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Okabe couldn't save her. Plagued by the guilt, his only solace lies with academia and with his friends who have been by his side from the start. But nothing's ever easy. While Okabe struggles to leave his traumas in the past, he meets a familiar-faced AI that re-opens old wounds and could lead to a terrifying new future.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
He's paying for his borrowed time. Okabe couldn't save her. Plagued by the guilt, his only solace lies with academia and with his friends who have been by his side from the start. but northing's ever easy. While Okabe struggles to leave his traumas in the past, he meets a familiar faced AI that re-opens old wounds and could lead to a terrifying future.
10) Prey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After his father is tragically killed in a carjacking, Toby is left stricken with guilt. He is begrudgingly enrolled in a 'lost and found' program, in which he will spend three days and three nights on a remote jungle island. Toby soon finds that this 'uninhibited' island is not so lonely when he meets a mysterious girl named Madeleine. It soon becomes clear that neither of them are safe here and time is running out.
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A desperate and impoverished student named Raskolnikov commits a murder, thinking he is above moral law, but eventually must confront his inner mind and consequences. This is an intense psychological study, terrifying murder mystery, and fascinating detective thriller, instilled with philosophical, religious and social commentary.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Fear of flying: Bill says he doesn't fly much because bugs get stuck to his glasses, but when visiting pals claim he's simply afraid that he can't keep up. Bill becomes determined to take to the air. Garden variety problem: Everybody agrees to help Methuseiah out with the garden, but they forget and make other plans. As he tolls in the garden, the others have trouble enjoying their day as guilt sets in.
13) Atonement
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
14) Another Earth
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rhoda and John are two people whose worlds collide after a tragic accident. Their intimate drama plays out against the astounding discovery of Earth 2, a parallel world that poses provocative and fascinating possibilities. Does a new Earth mean a chance at another life? Another destiny? Another self?
15) The apology
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, a recovering alcoholic is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration when her estranged ex-bother-in-law arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret. Trapped together by a dangerous storm, a battle of wits escalates to a violent game of revenge.
16) The memory thief
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Lukas is an aimless, haunted young man who is living in L.A. He buries painful thoughts of his own past in the humdrum routine of his job as a tollbooth clerk. A chance encounter with a holocaust survivor suddenly brings into focus a world and an identity he embraces with frightening intensity: the victimized Jews of World War II. As he begins to enthusiastically act out and explore his newfound obsession, Lukas discovers that survivor's guilt isn't...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nineteen eighty-four: Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in totalitarian Oceania under the constant surveillance of Big Brother. When he starts an illegal love affair, he becomes the target of a brain-washing compaign to force him to conform.
Crime and punishment: A modern version of Dostoyevsky's classic of one man's search for the true meaning of his existance.
18) Atonement
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
19) Blackmail
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Rebelling against the possessiveness of her police boyfriend, a young woman agrees to pose for an artist. Resisting his advances, she ends up murdering him in self-defense. Her boyfriend is assigned to the case, and soon learns the killer's identity, but so has someone else.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Explores the relationship between two men, Niklas Frank, and Horst von Wachter, each of whom are the children of high-ranking Nazi officials and possess starkly contrasting attitudes toward their fathers. Philippe Sands investigates the complicated connection between the two, and even delves into the story of his own grandfather who escaped the same area where their fathers carried out mass killings. Features never before seen home movie and archive...
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