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Cajun contemporary romances volume 3
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English
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Talk about a bad hair day. Louisiana beauty salon owner Charmaine LeDeux has a loan shark on her tail, and Raoul Lanier, the six-foot-three hunk of testosterone she thought she divorced, has just delivered a bombshell: They're still married! At least the rundown ranch they've inherited together is the perfect hideout. It's hard enough for Raoul to play cowboy to a bunch of scrawny steer, let alone suffer the exquisite torture of living with the delectable...
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English
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Visited by a young bureaucrat concerned about the lack of official approval to build his appartment block years before, Venetian cop Commissario Brunetti launches an investigation when the man is found dead after a mysterious fall from a scaffold, drawing the detective into a dangerous underworld of drug abuse and loan-sharking.
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English
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The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, and he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays. This volume gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine his youth in California, the lives of his refugee parents, his intimate friendships, loss, pop culture, and more. And in linked fiction following three...
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Publisher
Libertarian Press
Pub. Date
1959
Language
English
Description
Vols. 1 and 2: Translated by George D. Huncke; Hans F. Sennholz, consulting economist; v. 3: Translated by Hans F. Sennholz. Includes bibliography. v. 1. History and critique of interest theories.--v. 2. Positive theory of capital.--v. 3. Further essays on capital and interest.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
A group of friends reunites at a classmate's funeral, and stumbles upon a financial opportunity that's too good to pass up. But when the investment goes south, they learn that part of their funding came from a notoriously ruthless crime boss, and now it's payback time. They have one perilous chance to the erase the debt, and if they can complete the task they just might escape with their lives.
6) Revolver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jake Green is a grifter who vows revenge against Macha, the ferocious crime boss who sent him to prison. After taking Macha down in a game of chance, Macha puts out a hit on Jake. Caught between a gun and a hard place, Jake finds himself protected by two vicious loan sharks who make him an offer he can't refuse.
7) Pieta
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Korean
Description
Hired by moneylenders, a man lives as a loan shark brutally threatening people for paybacks. This man, without any family therefore with nothing to lose, continues his merciless way of life regardless of all the pain he has caused to a countless number of people. One day, a woman appears in front of him claiming to be his mother. He coldly rejects her at first, but gradually accepts her in his life. He decides to quit his cruel job and to live a decent...
8) Mean streets
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Charlie, a 27-year-old, tries to work his way up the bottom rungs of organized crime's ladder. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend Charlie's family declares "unsuitable" because she has epilepsy.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Henry (Streisand) and her husband Pete (Sarrazin) get a hot tip on the stock market, they try to get a loan for the $3,000 they need to invest. Henry comes up with the cash-- which she tells Pete she borrowed from a rich uncle. However, when the investment doesn't pay off, Henry finds herself bounced from one loan shark to another, falling deeper in debt as she goes.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
11) Dead man running
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A man has 24 hours to pay off a loan shark, or he will suffer dire consequences.
13) Take out
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to pay off his thuggish creditors. Ming Ding anonymously and...
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Series
Detective Sonora Blair novels volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
15) Mean streets
Series
Criterion collection volume 1198
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential works of American independent cinema, Martin Scorsese's gritty portrait of 1970s New York City is an electrifying vision of sin and redemption starring Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, and Amy Robinson.
16) Mean streets
Series
Criterion collection volume 1198
Language
English
Description
"Set in the insular Little Italy neighborhood of Scorsese's youth, Mean Streets follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie as he deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy, and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa..." --Container.
18) The final payoff
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Greek
Description
An ex-boxer, Greg, works for Markos, a strong loan shark, in Athens. He and his partner are assigned the difficult project to collect back money and interests from borrowers. They both come across everyday people that have been affected by the financial crisis who have gotten which they have to pay off by deadline, or else. Greg starts having moral concerns when things go bad and must choose between his job and starting a new life with an ambitious...
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