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2) Business English Writing: Effective Business Writing Tips and Tricks That Will Help You Write Bet
Author
Language
English
Description
Everyone wants to know the "who-what-when-where-why-how-how much" immediately, in the first sentence.
They need to make decisions. When they read documents, they want to know the important things immediately.
They want to know objectives, means of measurement, costs, and returns on those investments.
They want to see that information in the first sentences. Good business writing is more about clear thinking than it is about writing style. Writing...
3) Hitch
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
While helping his latest client to become more romantic, a professional date doctor finds his tricks don't quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he's smitten.
5) Murder 101
Publisher
GoodTimes Entertainment Limited
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Professor Charles Lattimore, a successful mystery and true-crime writer assigns his English class to plan the perfect murder. But after he is tricked into a romantic rendezvous with Francesca Lavin, an ambitions student who tries to sleep her way to an A, someone strangles her and leaves Charlie without an alibi. When he is framed for a second murder, Charlie must convince his estranged wife, Laura, to believe in him--and to help him learn if one...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
8) Buried
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Paul Conroy is not ready to die. But when he wakes up six feet underground with no idea of who put him there or why, life for the truck driver and family man instantly becomes a hellish struggle for survival. Buried with only a cell phone and a lighter, his contact with the outside world and ability to piece together clues that could help him discover his location are maddeningly limited. Paul has only ninety minutes to be rescued before his worst...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Intertwines four tales about a high school principal who moonlights as a serial killer; a virgin whose quest for that special someone turns gruesome; a group of teens that plays a cruel prank with disastrous consequences; and a grumpy old man who battles a trick-or-treating demon.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Sandra Pullman leads the unsolved crimes unit of the Metropolitan Police. Her team includes three aging former detectives lured out of retirement. Can a curmudgeonly trio of crime busters learn new tricks to crack tough crimes? Or are old-fashioned hunches and footwork still best?
12) His girl Friday
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2000]
Language
English
Description
An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The front page.
15) The potato king
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
King Fritz, aka Frederick the Great of Prussia, tricks his citizens into enjoying potatoes when he plants a field and has an army of men guard the perimeter.
16) Red
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad are about to welcome a few new faces, but first, Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman and her loyal team, Gerry Standing, Brian Lane, and Steve McAndrew, will solve their final cases together, bringing justice to decades-old murders that stumped London's Metropolitan Police.
18) The Lion King
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Simba is tricked by his evil uncle into thinking his father's death was his fault and decides to run away and abandons his identity as heir to the throne, but increasing troubles at home leads an old friend to seek out help.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
With old-school detective work and a little state-of-the-art forensics, the veterans unearth a range of baffling crimes, including the murder of a lawyer, a racially motivated attack on an Asian bride, and a mysterious unidentified human torso. Includes the complete 8-episode second season.
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