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21) The gatekeeper
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A racist, bitter U.S. Border Patrol Agent, moonlighting with a vigilante group, goes undercover posing as a Mexican migrant worker in an effort to expose an illegal alien smuggling operation. When the plan blows up, he is trapped with the aliens, in a web of desperation and tyranny that forces him to confront his secret past.
22) Breathing happy
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this mind-bending drama, a recovering addict is ready to celebrate a year of sobriety on Christmas Day. But his past demons tempt him to fail, including a talking golden door, his ex-drug dealer, and magic tricks. Will he experience relapse or rebirth?
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A television talk show host decides to bring together Alistair, a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, and Joe, whose brother Alistair killed when he was a teenager, to attempt a reconciliation that both men are hesitant to face.
24) Dr. No: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The protagonist of Percival Everett’s puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means “nothing” in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for “nothing.”) He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it. This makes him the perfect partner for the aspiring villain John Sill, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal,...
25) Hinterland
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 minutes)
Language
English
Description
From the director of Oscar-winning film, The Counterfeiters, comes this visually audacious work of Expressionistic cinema, winner of the Audience Award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
The year is 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has fallen and what remains has devolved into social unrest and political turmoil. Peter Perg, a soldier of the Great War, returns to Vienna only to realize the place he once called home is now unfamiliar to...
Author
Series
Duchess report volume 1
Physical Desc
379 pages
Language
English
Description
sa·mar·i·tan: noun /səˈmærɪt(ə)n/
A compassionate person generous in helping those in distress
British investigative journalist Gabriella Reuben—Bree to everyone but her mother—has worked hard to build a new life in Düsseldorf and put the past behind her. That is until she opens her front door to find the corrupt woman who publicly outed Bree as transgender—the same woman now begging for Bree’s help.
Petra Keller is a despicable...
27) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
28) The antidote
Author
Physical Desc
271 pages
Language
English
Description
Can genetically modified seeds provide the antidote for climate change?
A geneticist has developed plants that could stem the tide of climate change, but when grad student Lila finds him murdered, she flees the scene with the seeds. To escape the killer, she hitches a ride with an eccentric duo and a secret payload that could land them all in prison. Chased by ruthless thieves, the three must rely on their wits, uncover the mystery of these potent...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated -- uncountable volumes of committee records, court transcripts, and memoirs -- it falls at last to a novelist to perform the work of inference (and invention) that allows us to solve some of the scandal's greatest mysteries (who did erase those eighteen-and-a-half minutes of tape?) and to see this gaudy American catastrophe in its human entirety. In Watergate, Thomas Mallon conveys the...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
482 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joe Hill is the creative force behind this collection of graphic novels that showcase the world-building and bone-chilling talents of the famed Locke & Key co-creator. This collection includes: The Cape (2010) and The Cape 1969 (2011), Thumbprint (2013), Kodiak (2010), and Wraith (2014)."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dewey Andreas thrillers volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
422 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dewey Andreas faces the toughest odds of his life as one of China's most powerful men has decided to do whatever he must to take down Dewey --- and inflicts a horrifying loss. When Dewey Andreas uncovers the identity of a mole embedded at a high level in Israel's Mossad, it triggers a larger, more dangerous plot. The mole was the most important asset of Chinese Intelligence, and Fao Bhang, head of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), responds...
32) Lord of war
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. His relationship with his younger brother is somewhat volatile, he is married to a famous model, and he is relentlessly pursued...
Author
Series
Strike back volume 2
Publisher
Coronet
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Porter is sent on a mission with Regimental scallywag John Bald. Where Porter plays it by the book, Bald will always want to break the rules. They are sent to Sierra Leone to extract Ronald Soames, a former CO of the Regiment and now right-hand man to the President. But when Porter and Bald arrive, the Englishman has disappeared, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Rebels are threatening to take over the country and its diamond mines...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jessica, a young Air Force drone pilot in Nevada, is tasked with launching a missile against a suspected terrorist halfway across the world, she realizes that though women and children are in the crosshairs of her screen, she has no choice but to follow orders. Ethan, a young Wall Street quant, is involved in a more bloodless connection to war when he develops an algorithm that enables his company's clients to profit by exploiting the international...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
277 pages
Language
Español
Description
A sus cuarenta y siete años, el campeón del mundo de ajedrez Aleksandr Aleksándrovich Alekhine, ruso de nacimiento y nacionalizado francés, juega las partidas del mismo modo en que vive su vida: de victoria en victoria, de continente en continente.
Corre el mes de septiembre de 1939 cuando se embarca en Buenos Aires rumbo a Europa junto a su mujer y el jarrón de porcelana que no lo abandona desde que, siendo un adolescente, lo recibiera como...
36) Origin: A Novel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • "Dr. Langdon is once again wrapped up in a global-scale event that could have massive ramifications on the world’s religions. As he does in all his novels, Brown[‘s] extensive research on art, architecture, and history informs every page." —Entertainment Weekly
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to...
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to...
37) Never Lie
Author
Publisher
Hollywood Upstairs Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate... with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains...
38) Domino
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Domino Harvey, who is the daughter of film actor Laurence Harvey. Tired and unsuited to the pretentiousness of her high-society Los Angeles life, Domino leaves the glitz behind her and sets off to become a bounty hunter. She quickly falls under the wing of veteran hunter Ed Mosley and his crew, becoming an unlikely natural in the art of bounty hunting. But things heat up when a gang of masked men begin a series of armored...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightfully lighthearted caper . . . [a] fast-moving, entertaining tale.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of...
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, impossible to resist.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of...
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dazzling illustrated edition of the book that started it all—for readers of A Song of Ice and Fire and fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones.
Published in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George R. R. Martin’s landmark series, this lavishly illustrated special edition of A Game of Thrones—featuring gorgeous full-page artwork as well as black-and-white illustrations in every chapter—revitalizes...
Published in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of George R. R. Martin’s landmark series, this lavishly illustrated special edition of A Game of Thrones—featuring gorgeous full-page artwork as well as black-and-white illustrations in every chapter—revitalizes...
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