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Language
English
Description
"One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life.--Amazon.com
"Snapshot"...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The film follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Visual Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A character driven piece tells the story of several New Yorkers - an oddball office shrink, a cluelessly competitive pastry chef, and a flirtatious security guard - reveal their eccentric private stories.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnaps the team's owner and Jesse's daughter during opening night. Facing a ticking clock and impossible odds, it's up to Jesse to save not only them but also a full house of fans.
6) Hero
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After stopping a robbery at the Beverly Hills home of her client, a security guard to the stars is celebrated in the media as a local hero, but also draws the attention of the crime kingpin behind the burglaries.
Author
Series
Jeopardy Falls volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Christian O'Brady was pulled into a life of crime at a young age by his con artist parents. Now making amends for his corrupt past, he has become one of the country's foremost security experts. When a string of Southwestern art heists targets one of the galleries Christian secured, he is paired up with a gifted insurance investigator who has her own checkered past. Andi Forester was a brilliant FBI forensic analyst until one of her colleagues destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
457 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Daisy is the night security guard at the Manchester Museum of Social History. She takes her job very seriously, protecting the museum from teenage troublemakers. Nate works the day shift, though he'd be more suited as a museum guide the way he chats with the visitors. Daisy doesn't approve: how does he find it so easy to talk to strangers? For five minutes each day, their shifts overlap at handover. It's the only interaction they have...until mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just in time for the 10th anniversary of Five Nights at Freddy's, head to the Pizzaplex in this interactive novel in which YOU decide what happens! Return to where it all began in this interactive novel set before the very first Five Nights at Freddy's game. You the reader are the Security Guard - and you've got five nights (or is it six?) to survive Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy as they try to wipe you out. With over 25 different possible endings...
Author
Series
Spellbound Falls volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally from the ancient mythical island of Atlantis, Nicholas has spent the last year deep in the mountains of Maine, serving as Director of Security for the Nova Mare and Inglenook resorts. Fully embracing his life in the twenty-first century, he finds himself irresistibly drawn to a trouble-prone employee, and is determined to keep her safe. The last thing Julia Campbell needs is a man with a hero complex, especially one as handsome and imposing...
Author
Series
Brown sisters volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Danika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits - someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. When big, brooding...
12) The gold train
Author
Series
Faraday volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
331 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The train-top murder of one of his female operatives has thrust Matthew Faraday, the wily chief of Faraday Security Service, into the dark and twisting tunnel of another railroad mystery, and a coded message in the dead woman's pocket is the only clue. Don't miss this novel in the Faraday western series by bestselling author Robert Vaughan"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is a mixed bag for Piper Calloway. On the one hand, she's a twenty-nine-year-old VP at her dad's multibillion-dollar real estate development firm, and living the high single life with her two best friends in a swanky downtown penthouse. On the other hand, she's considered a pair of sexy legs in a male-dominated world and constantly has to prove her worth. Plus she's stuck seeing her narcissistic ex-fiancé--a fellow VP--on the other side of her...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 14
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ken Bruen has been called "hard to resist, with his aching Irish heart, silvery tongue, and bleak noir sensibility" (New York Times Book Review). His prose is as characteristically sharp as his outlook in the latest Jack Taylor novel, In the Galway Silence. After much tragedy and violence, Jack Taylor has at long last landed at contentment. Of course, he still knocks back too much Jameson and dabbles in uppers, but he has a new woman in his life,...
Author
Series
Jack Taylor volume 13
Publisher
The Mysterious Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As well-versed in politics, pop culture, and crime fiction as he is ill-fated in life, Jack Taylor is recovering from a mistaken medical diagnosis and a failed suicide attempt. In need of money, and with former cop on his resume, Jack has been hired as a night-shift security guard. But his Ukrainian boss has Jack in mind for a bit of off-the-books work. He wants Jack to find what some claim to be the first true book of heresy, The Red Book, currently...
16) Empire State
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis settles for a security guard job with the Empire State Armored Truck Company. Chris makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, Eddie, and is soon unwittingly drawn into an elaborate scheme to rob the abundant amounts of cash being stored there - resulting in the largest cash heist in U.S. History.
17) Die buying
Author
Series
Mall cop volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 276 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
18) Just for kicks
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
541 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Las Vegas showgirl Carly Jacobsen keeps learning the hard way that her idea of fun differs radically from that of her neighbor Wolfgang Jones. Sure, he looks incredible, and he seems to have a thing for her legs, but the man's a robot. So what's with their chemistry?
Wolf has a plan for his life, and it doesn't include finding himself tempted by the freewheeling Carly...;mile-high legs or not. Yet in a moment of weakness, the two discover at least...
19) P2
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve and Angela Bridges, who is an ambitious young executive, is working late before she leaves for her family's holiday party. When she gets down to the parking garage, she discovers that her car won't start. The garage is deserted and her cell phone won't get a signal underground. When Thomas, a friendly security guard, comes along and offers his help, Angela nervously accepts his gesture of good will. When his attempt to start her...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...