Alan Cumming
21) Second Cut, The
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I doubt I'll read a better book this year' Val McDermid 'Compelling, immersive and brimming with life' Graeme Macrae Burnet THE TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up. The next day Jojo washes up dead. Jojo liked Grindr...
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Unputdownable' Sunday Times 'I was hooked from page one' Guardian When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting for his life.
23) Behemoth
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The latest in the New York Times bestselling breakout steampunk series from Scott Westerfeld. At the end of Leviathan, our heroes Alek and Deryn were aboard a mighty air ship heading toward Constantinople to deliver a secret package. But their secrets-Alek's family is responsible for starting World War I, and Deryn is a girl passing as a guy in the British Air Service-are in jeopardy when their mission goes awry. The only way to save themselves in...
24) Goliath
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The riveting conclusion to Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling trilogy that's "sure to become a classic" (School Library Journal). Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as Prince of Austria, and finally fall in love. The first two objectives are complicated by the fact that their ship, the Leviathan, continues to detour farther away from the heart of the war (and crown)....
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In this highly anticipated sequel to New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Honor-winning author Tony DiTerlizzi's Kenny and the Dragon, Kenny must cope with many changes in his life-including the fear that he's losing his best friend.
What can come between two best friends?
Time has passed since Kenny Rabbit's last adventure with his best friend, the legendary dragon Grahame, and a lot has changed in the sleepy village of Roundbrook.
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[2011]
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In this continuation of the Spy Kids saga, Juni Cortez has now retired from being a spy and is trying to live a normal life, while Carmen is still with OSS. When his sister Carmen is trapped inside a groundbreaking new video game, the only way to free her is to enter the game's virtual world and make it to the highest level. Juni goes in to rescue her, and together, the Spy Kids battle through tougher and tougher levels of the game, overcoming challenges...
27) X2: X-men united
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[2013]
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Following a shocking attack on the President, the X-men must stand united with their deadliest enemies to combat a menace that threatens every mutant on the planet, and possibly all of mankind.
28) Macbeth
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'The Scottish Play' is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, but its characters are some of the most memorable in his oeuvre: the misguided Macbeth, the ruthless Lady Macbeth and the otherworldly Weird Sisters are recognisable as classic Shakespearean roles. Saturated with blood and despair, the tragedy of Macbeth is a concentrated study of guilt and ambition inflamed by the supernatural."
32) Neverwas
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Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created, setting Zach on a magical and moving journey of discovery.
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An imaginative reworking of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," with modern-day twists. A leather-clad, soul-sucking sorceress named Azkadellia has scorched the once-beautiful O.Z. into a desolate wasteland. Its only hope lies with an "outsider" named DG, a young Midwestern woman, whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. She not only changes the fate of the O.Z. but discovers, as well, her own destiny in this strange new world.
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An imaginative reworking of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," with modern-day twists. A leather-clad, soul-sucking sorceress named Azkadellia has scorched the once-beautiful O.Z. into a desolate wasteland. Its only hope lies with an "outsider" named DG, a young Midwestern woman, whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. She not only changes the fate of the O.Z. but discovers, as well, her own destiny in this strange new world.
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An imaginative reworking of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," with modern-day twists. A leather-clad, soul-sucking sorceress named Azkadellia has scorched the once-beautiful O.Z. into a desolate wasteland. Its only hope lies with an "outsider" named DG, a young Midwestern woman, whose troubling dreams have summoned her to the doomed paradise. She not only changes the fate of the O.Z. but discovers, as well, her own destiny in this strange new world.
36) Company Man
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Former Woody Allen collaborator Douglas McGrath co-wrote, co-directed, and stars in this historical screwball comedy that offers up its own creative suggestion as to what might have spurned 1961's Bay of Pigs invasion. McGrath plays Allen Quimp, a nebbish schoolteacher who — in an attempt to appease his browbeating wife Daisy (Sigourney Weaver) — boasts that he leads a double life as a CIA operative. Daisy immediately sets to work writing a tell-all...