Summary: Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUSAdler, Laure.
Summary: A selection of sixty powerfully seductive women, from Biblical times to the present day, featuring mythical and real heroines. The most memorable stories throughout history feature a powerful, seductive woman who has an irresistible hold over the man in her life. The alluring Cleopatra, like Helen of Troy, inspired lovers to the battlefield in a brave display of loyalty. Eve and Pandora...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flammarion 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 704 ADLBillinghurst, Jane
Summary: Annotation . According to Jane Billinghurst, men created the idea of the temptress an irresistible woman bent on bringing them down to justify the fact that they so often surrender to women, especially in the bedroom. In this fascinating study, she examines this vision in history, mythology, in the Bible, artwork, and film. She traces the evolution of the temptress from an almost demonic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BILSummary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: When an MI6 agent turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on Bond.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE GOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Goldeneye 2007Bruen, Ken
Summary: Ruined and on the lam, former drug kingpin Max Fisher stumbles upon the biggest discovery of his crooked life: a designer drug called PIMP that could put him back on top. Meanwhile, a certain femme fatale from his past is producing a film based on her and Max's life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: A straitlaced businessman meets a quirky, free-spirited woman at a downtown New York greasy spoon. Her offer of a ride back to his office results in a lunchtime motel rendezvous, just the beginning of a capricious interstate road trip that brings the two face-to-face with their hidden selves. Featuring a killer soundtrack and electric performances from Jeff Daniels.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SOMSteel, Danielle
Summary: Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESummary: When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ROMBerry, Jedediah.
Summary: Charles Unwin, a clerk in a detective agency, is promoted after his boss is murdered and a detective goes missing. Now a detective himself, Unwin seeks out the whereabouts of the missing detective, as all as those who murdered his boss. However, things quickly turn sour for the novice gumshoe, as he is framed for murder and on the run from a gang of thugs.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BERTierney, Gene
Summary: An alluring but possessive woman marries a man she barely knows, then eliminates anyone who may come between them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRIHilton, L. S.
Summary: By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a prestigious London art house. By night, she's a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's transformed her accent and taught herself about wine and the correct use of a dessert fork, not to mention the art of discretion. She's learned to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILSpiotta, Dana
Summary: "The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love--"Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPISummary: A notorious seductress enters a gossipy society and entices the husband of a faithful young woman, delighting the gossips and prompting a series of unexpected consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GOO
Brubaker, Ed
Summary: Nicholas Lash lost everything when he met Josephine, and now her trail of secrets leads him to mid-'90s Seattle, and the tragic story of a struggling grunge band, and the beautiful woman with amnesia who stumbles into their world. Is she their muse? Will she save them from "One-Hit Wonder" status? Or is she something much worse, especially since there's a psycho killer hunting her?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2014
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRUPrioleau, Elizabeth Stevens
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 PRIGottlieb, Eli
Summary: Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOTWollstein, Hans J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McFarland & Co. 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 WOLXiaobai
Summary: Tale of espionage and international intrigue set in Shanghai in 1931--an electrifying, decadent world of love, violence, and betrayal filled with femmes fatales, criminals, revolutionaries, and spies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC XIASummary: When a Chinese criminal mastermind flees to Paris, there's only one culture-clashed, crime fighting duo for the job. Ready to raise cane in the city of lights, Chief Inspector Lee and Detective Carter get themselves caught in an explosive battle between French police, the Triad gang, an angry cabbie and two gorgeous femmes fatales. But, Lee and Carter manage to uncover the secret at the heart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RushEmera, Deena
Summary: "Knowledge is the most powerful weapon. As the female body is constantly being politicized and policed, it is now more than ever that people must understand the inner workings of women's body. Written by an evolutionary geneticist, Deena Emera, Ph.D., in an accessible, nonjudgmental tone, A Brief History of the Female Body unravels misconceptions women have about their own bodies and supplies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 EMEHiggs, Liz Curtis.
Summary: "Ten of the Bible's best-known femmes fatales parade across the pages of Bad Girls of the Bible with situations that sound oh-so-familiar. Eve had food issues. Potiphar's Wife and Delilah had man trouble. Lot's Wife and Michal couldn't let go of the past, Sapphira couldn't let go of money, and Jezebel couldn't let go of anything. Yet the Woman at the Well had her thirst quenched at last, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Waterbrook Press 2013