Bruce Boxleitner
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Language
English
Description
In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.
3) Silver bells
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his relationship...
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy hides a cruel past. Adam and Cathy marry and have twin...
7) Tron: legacy
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
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English
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Final Blackout is a dystopic science fiction novel by American writer L. Ron Hubbard. The novel is set in the future and follows a man known as "the Lieutenant" as he restores order to England after a world war. A lieutenant (known in the book only as "The Lieutenant") becomes dictator of England after a world war. The Lieutenant leads a ragtag army fighting for survival in a Europe ravaged by 30 years of atomic, biological and conventional warfare....
9) The Orville
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Language
English
Description
An original novella set in season three of The Orville-straight from the pen of Seth MacFarlane, creator of the beloved sci-fi TV show! When Captain Ed Mercer and the crew of the U.S.S. Orville come face-to-face with one of humanity's most vile ideologies, they must solve the moral conundrum of who to hold accountable for evil deeds real… and imagined. Occurring just after episode 308, this is the Orville like you've never seen it before.
10) Stalking Horse
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Series
Language
English
Description
Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation, so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park track, he'll give Coley $10,000, and Francie's address. Is this the opportunity he's been waiting for, or will Coley...
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English
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Filled with action, passion, and drama, Buckskin Brigades is a panoramic journey across the pages of American history - the story of a proud, courageous man pushed to the limits of endurance, and of a country on the threshold of a bloody conflict that will change it forever.
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English
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Lance Gordon's running out of room and time. Back in the Sierras he killed the man who murdered his father. Unfortunately that man turned out to be a Deputy Marshal, and now Lance has a price on his head. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, Lance wants only to live in peace, but he'll have to go through hell to get there. Running from the law and the cavalry, Lance heads for the one place no sheriff or soldier will go-into the territory ruled by The Baron of...
16) The Great Secret
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Series
Language
English
Description
Fanner Marston is on the verge of uncovering the key to gaining absolute control over the universe. The only problem is, he's certifiably insane. Driven by greed and lust for power, all he cares about is reaching the ancient city of Parva - and finding The Great Secret of absolute power. But the writing's on the walls of Parva - and you won't believe what it says. Blast off on a head-trip you'll never forget as the audio version of The Great Secret...
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Language
English
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From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth-best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File-comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.
Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in "The Veteran" (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in "The Art of the Matter" (also read by Macnee)....
18) Double Cross
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Language
English
Description
Kathy Swanson and her neighbor, Sheryl, are both having difficulty with their husbands. So when Sheryl suggests to Kathy that they should get their lives back by killing each other's husbands, Kathy facetiously sanctions the plan.