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22) Sharky's machine
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
"Italy, 1944: A squad of American soldiers on a dangerous secret mission is ambushed and slaughtered ... and a fortune in gold vanishes. Hong Kong, 1959: An aging American colonel, haunted by his wartime past, is brutally murdered in a luxurious brothel. Atlanta, 1975: The last survivor of the fatal World War II ambush in Italy is executed at point blank range in a parking lot. Blowing away a crazed, gun-wielding drug dealer on a crowded city bus...
Series
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Lola: A romantic drama that casts Bronson in an atypical role as a middle-aged American writer named Scott who is visiting London. There he meets a young British girl named Lola who lies about her age in order to capture the older man's affections. U.S. Marshal: Pursuit: Charles Bronson is a soldier who goes AWOL by blasting his way out of camp. Having turned on his fellow combatants, Bronson knows that he's committed the ultimate sin and will...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
University professor Josef Held has never recovered from the loss of his wife. He has no intention of letting anyone new into his quiet, safe world, where the ticking clock in his mathematics classroom drowns out the beat of Nazi soldiers' boots. But when his Jewish pupil Michael comes to him, saying Jews will no longer be allowed to study, Josef can ignore the situation no longer. In an impulsive act of courage, he offers Michael a place to hide...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining of J.M. Barrie's classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan-who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be-to save her daughter's life. Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, t h a t Wendy. She's running a successful skincare company, her son Jack is happy and healthy, and the tragedy of her past is well behind her......
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war-ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding refuge in a seemingly abandoned house in a secluded woodland. But the house is far from vacant. Stefano wakes at the arrival of its owner, Erich, a former German soldier, who invites the travelers to stay until they can find safe passage...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother in 1920, and brought to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944 when he was twenty-four and began writing poetry at...
Language
English
Description
THE EQUALIZER 2: Robert McCall has rededicated his life to the pursuit of justice. But when his mission strikes close to home, he will be consumed by vengeance, seeking a revenge that knows no boundaries.
BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS (BLU-RAY): Evan Sanders is a low-level, dutiful employee stuck in a boring job at a soul-killing corporation. He's the kind of guy who does all the work and gets none of the credit, but at least he gets to spend his days with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Long before there was a Catch-22, before there was even a Catch-18 (the novel's original title), Joseph Heller had begun sharpening his skills as a writer, searching for the voice that would best express the peculiarly wry view that he held of the world. Starting in 1945, with the publication in Story magazine of the short story "I Don't Love You Anymore," Heller began to reach out to an audience of readers damaged and disillusioned by their experiences...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of black leadership should look like and how we can get there.
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Collection of 317 songs, including favorites such as John Henry, Shenandoah, Barbry Allen, Sweet Betsy, and the Old Chisholm trail, as well as lesser known, authentic chanteys, ballads, work songs, and spirituals; each with brief background note.
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Contributors: Abigail McCarthy, Alice R. Longsworth, Art Buchwald, Arthur M. Schlessenger, Jr., Barbara Howar, Ben Bradlee, David Brinkley, David McCullough, Dean Acheson, Drew Pearson, Robert S. Allen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Grace Tully, Harry Truman, Henry Allen, Henry Kissinger, Isabel Anderson, Jack Anderson, Jack Valenti, James Thurber, John dos Passos, Jonathan Daniels, Lady Bird Johnson, Lilian R. Parks, Liz Carpenter, Merriman Smith, Michael K....
Author
Series
Library of America ; 60-61
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
©1992.
Language
English
Description
A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A Duke Worth Falling For: Her career in tatters, celebrity photographer Lilah Rose retreats to the British countryside, complete with fluffy sheep, rolling hills...and Max, the stern, sexy farmer who tends to them. But their lazy days and lush nights aren't as far from the spotlight as Lilah thinks, and Max will have to reveal the truth if he is going to convince Lilah that some dukes are worth the risk.
Better with You: When the author of a controversial...
39) Best western
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
McLintock!: Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him.
Unforgiven: A former desperado agrees to go on one...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The equalizer: McCall is a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by; he has to help her.
The magnificent seven: The town of Rose Creek is under the deadly control of Bartholomew...
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