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"New York Times bestselling author Katherine Center's The Bodyguard is unabashedly romantic, laugh-out-loud funny, and the perfect summer read. She's got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she's an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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In her spectacular film debut, Houston plays Rachel Marron, a music/movie superstar at her peak. Fans want to see her, hear her, touch her. But one wants to kill her - and that's where security expert Frank Farmer (Costner) comes in. Farmer is a professional who never lets his guard down. Rachel's glamorous life often puts her at risk. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.
Publisher
First Night Records
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
World Premiere Cast Recording of The Bodyguard - The Musical. Featuring all the hit songs of the show, including 'How Will I Know', 'Run To You', 'I'm Every Woman', 'One Moment In Time' and, of course, 'I Will Always Love You'. All these and much more, performed flawlessly by the current leading lady of both West End and the UK Tour and also winner of the 5th X-Factor series... Alexandra Burke!
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Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In the early 20th century, English suffragist group the Women's Social and Political Union formed an all-women security unit. Trained by Edith Garrud, these "jujitsuffragettes" fought against abuse and arrest while pursuing long overdue rights"--
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Can trauma be inherited? It is this question that sets Alex Halberstadt off on a quest to name and acknowledge a legacy of family trauma, and to end a century-old cycle of estrangement. His search takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth. In Ukraine he tracks down his paternal grandfather--most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin--to reckon with the ways in which decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped three generations...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Celebrate the most enduring team in animation history with a collection fans will want to chase and catch! This highly anticipated release includes 37 remastered shorts, starting with Puss Gets the Boot! Enjoy these highly collectible set with improved picture and audio for the first time ever!
10) Long shadows
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Series
Amos Decker novels volume 7
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English
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"When Amos Decker is called to South Florida to investigate a double homicide, the case appears straightforward: A federal judge and her bodyguard have been found dead, the judge's face sporting a blindfold with two eye holes crudely cut out, a clear sign that she'd made one too many enemies over her years on the bench. What at first seems cut and dry is anything but: Not only did the judge have more enemies than Decker can count -- from violent gang...
11) Ice and shadow
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Publisher
Baen Books ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Brother to shadows: the bodyguard to an alien scientist must protect both his client, and the client's discovery, from harm.
Ice crown: an archaeologist searches for an artifact that will save the enslaved population of an isolated world.
12) Collision point
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Series
Brute Force novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A crime lord's daughter finds safety from her father's enemies in the arms of the bodyguard who broke her heart.
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"The latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin travels from Hollywood to rural Montana as one man answers the question: How far would you go-really-to save someone you love?"--
When MacThomas Pockets finished his last tour as part of the Scottish Special Forces, he was hired to consult for a film director to finesse some scenes that weren't working. In a twist he never saw coming, he ended up moving to L.A. to work as the...
14) Night shine
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An orphan girl undertakes a dangerous journey to rescue her friend the prince from a powerful sorceress." --
An orphan girl called Nothing slips within the shadows of the vast palace of the Empress, unseen except by the Great Demon of the palace and her true friend, Prince Kirin, heir to the throne. When Kirin is kidnapped, only Nothing and the prince's bodyguard suspect that Kirin may have been taken by the Sorceress Who Eats Girls, a powerful...
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Series
New Orleans (Karen Rose) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There's no safe place for a child to hide when the danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J.P. "Kaj" Cardozo has lived in New Orleans for only six months, and he's already working on a high-profile celebrity sexual assault case that has made headlines all...
16) Thin air
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Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From the moment Richard K. Morgan's dazzling debut, Altered Carbon, burst onto the scene, it was clear that a distinctive new voice had arrived to shake up science fiction. His subsequent novels--including the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies--confirmed him as a master of hard-boiled futuristic thrillers. Now Morgan returns to the world of SF noir with a riveting tale of crime, corruption, and deadly crisis on a planet teetering close to the...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tokyo, 1979. Yoriko Shindo, a workhorse of a woman who has been an outcast her whole life, is kidnapped and dragged to the lair of the Naiki-kai, a branch of the yakuza. After she savagely fends off a throng of henchmen in an attempt to escape, Shindo isonly permitted to live under one condition: that she will become the bodyguard and driver for Shoko Naiki, the obsessively sheltered daughter of the gang's boss. Eighteen-year-old Shoko, pretty and...
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