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101) Tarnished gold
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Cantor Gold volume 2
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English
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"New York City, 1950. Cantor Gold, art smuggler and dapper dyke-about-town, hunts for a missing masterpiece she's risked her life to bring through the port of New York. She must outsmart the Law that wants to jail her; outrun the dockside gangsters who would let her take the fall for murder; and outplay a shady art dealer, his lover, and a beautiful curator who toys with Cantor's passion. Through it all, Cantor must stay out of the gunsights of a...
102) Mr. Arkadin
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A reclusive billionaire fakes a case of amnesia and hires a young adventurer who has been seeing his daughter to investigate his own past. As the inquiries begin unraveling Arkadin's sordid history, the young man realizes he's being used to keep the truth from Arkadin's daughter and that his own life is in danger.
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Dan Abatangelo is busted by the DEA after trying to make one last run of marijuana before going straight. Having served his full ten-year term after plea-bargaining to lighten his crew's sentences, Dan is determined to get back together with Shel Beaudry, the love of his life, despite his probation guidelines and the fact that she is the mistress to an underling in a ruthless crime ring.
104) Moonhaven: Season 1
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Moonhaven focuses on Bella Sway, a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500-square-mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven's miracles...
105) La Choca
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Español
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Martin, a smuggler, lives in a mountain hut with his wife, La Choca, his father, his son little Martin, and Flor, Martin's sister. They live through hardship to make ends meet, and Martin does some smuggling, but he repents and turns in some of his former colleagues in. Later, three of them arrive, accuse him of having betrayed them, and all hell breaks loose. Only can La Choca take them on.
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In Fistful of dollars, an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars more is the sequal to 'A fistful of dollars, ' in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
In The good,...
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Español
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¡Comienza una nueva vuelta de tuerca en este gaudeamus de mentiras! Nao y los otros siete jugadores que han superado la repesca afrontan la tercera partida del Liar Game en este manga shonen. A ellos se suma Akiyama, que había logrado imponerse en la segunda fase del juego. Los nueve participantes son conducidos a un aeropuerto en donde transcurrirá el juego del contrabando, el primero en grupo, que consiste en sacar dinero a los extranjeros moviéndose...
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Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
For a few dollars: Two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader.
The good, the bad and the ugly: The "Man With No Name" teams with two...
109) Key West luck
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Phoebe has the modest dream of owning a Sno-Cone truck at the beach in Key West. Her would-be boyfriend, Nicky, also dreams small. All he wants is a decent gig as a guitar player in a bar, but they run afoul of a sleazy local cheat, a Miami gangster desperate to stay in business, and a murderous Cuban smuggler looking for a fall guy. They'll need a kind of smarts and chutzpah they never knew they had in order to keep their hopes, and themselves, alive....
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Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
111) Criminal gold
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Cantor Gold volume 1
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English
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Midnight, New York Harbor, 1949. Cantor Gold, dapper dyke-about-town, smuggler of fine art, waits in her boat under the Brooklyn Bridge for racketeer Gregory Ortine. In the shadow of the bridge, he'll toss Cantor a satchel of cash, and she'll toss him a pouch containing a priceless jewel. But the plan, and the jewel, sink when a woman in a red sequined dress drops from the bridge and slams onto Cantor's boat. She is Opal Shaw, Society Page darling...
112) The things we keep
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A kaleidoscope of stories and images drawn from fifteen years of tapes and hard drives containing personal and journalistic footage. It plunges viewers into the back of smuggler trucks crossing the Sahara and into all night parties in Berlin. It leads them from a carefree student life in Rome, and into a homeless shelter in Detroit. What begins as charming filmmaking by two friends, quickly evolves into a broader meditation on what it means to eventually...
113) Genuine gold
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Cantor Gold volume 3
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English
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"New York, 1952. From the shadowy docks of Athens, Greece, to the elegance of a Fifth Avenue penthouse, to the neon glare of Coney Island, art smuggler Cantor Gold must track down an ancient artifact, elude thugs and killers, protect a beautiful woman who caters to Cantor's deepest desires, and confront the honky-tonk past which formed her. Memories, murder, passion, and the terrible longing for her stolen love tangle in Cantor's soul, threatening...
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"Ernest in the Army: Our old buddy Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) loves big Army trucks so he enlists in the Reserves to get a chance to drive them. Unfortunately, Ernest's unit is called up to serve overseas as part of a force looking to stop a Middle Eastern dictator."--Container.
"Ernest goes to Africa: Ernest (Jim Varney) must head to Africa to save the girl of his dreams from a group of diamond smugglers after giving her an unsuspecting yo-yo...
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中文(繁體)
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While an elite cop is working undercover to infiltrate a notorious drug ring, his plan is blown when a rival agency with a grudge attacks during a trade, killing the gang's leader. Their cover compromised, both teams are forced to unite in order to take to the high seas and attempt to overthrow the ruthless smuggler behind it all.
117) Flesh and gold
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Series
Cantor gold crime volume 4
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English
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Havana, 1952, a city throbbing with pleasure and danger, where the Mob peddles glamor to the tourists and there's plenty of sex for sale. In the swanky hotels and casinos, and the steamy, secretive Red Light district of the Colón, Cantor Gold, dapper art thief and smuggler, searches the streets and brothels for her kidnapped love, Sophie de la Luna y Sol. Cantor races against time while trying to out run the deadly schemes of American mobsters and...
118) Errand boys
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"A runner for a shady errand-and sometimes shifty smuggling-service finds an unexpected partner in his half-human, teenage half-brother."--
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"Kent, 1796. Shocked to discover a dying man on his doorstep - and lucky to avoid a bullet himself - Reverend Hardcastle finds himself entrusted with the victim's cryptic last words. With smuggling rife on England's south-east coast, the obvious conclusion is that a dodgy deal has gone wrong. But why is the leader of the local Customs service so reluctant to investigate? Ably assisted by the ingenious Mrs Chaytor, Hardcastle sets out to solve the...
120) The book smuggler
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"I am Majid al-Hanafi of Najd, I was not an honorable man." So goes this epic tale, written in the vein of the great Arab explorers and travel writers. Scribe and bookseller Mazid al-Hanafi journeys from his remote village in the Arabian Desert dreaming of grand libraries. His passion for books draws him into a secret society of book smugglers and to the great cultural capitals of the period-Baghdad, Jerusalem, Cairo, Kairouan, Granada, and Cordoba....
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