David Koepp
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When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. Now, after decades of decaying in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. Only Diaz knows how to stop...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 24 cm.
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In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her suburban neighborhood. Across the country lives Aubrey's estranged brother, Thom....
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Für die Hörer von Michael Crichton und Marc Elsberg kommt hier das erstaunliche Debüt des Drehbuchautors von Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible und Dan Browns Inferno, das alle Zutaten für einen weiteren Blockbuster hat: Herausragende Action, sympathische Charaktere und eine gute Prise Humor. 1987: Alle Bewohner des australischen Wüstenorts Kiwirkurra sind tot - Opfer eines mutierten Killerpilzes. Ein Team US-Agenten schafft es unter hohen Verlusten,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (10hr.,1min.,0sec.))
Description
Hace treinta y dos años, Roberto Díaz, que forma parte de un equipo élite y secreto del Pentágono, viajó al desierto australiano para investigar un posible ataque bioquímico. Lo que encontró fue mucho peor: un organismo altamente mutante, similar a una planta, capaz de causar epidemias destructivas. Se las arregló para contenerlo, enterrándolo en una cámara de almacenamiento en el fondo de una instalación gubernamental fuertemente armada....
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Series
Indiana Jones movie novelizations volume 4
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
330 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Daring adventurer-archaeologist Indiana Jones returns in an all new, action-packed saga, in the novelization of the fourth, long-anticipated Indiana Jones movie.
6) Ghost town
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (102 min): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After dying and coming back to life during surgery, a dentist discovers he has the ability to see ghosts and becomes involved in a romantic scheme between one ghost and his widow.
Series
Jurassic Park ultimate trilogy volume disc 2
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hrs. 9 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, dinosaurs have secretly survived on a nearby island and roam free. Now there is a more ominous threat--a plan to capture and bring the dinosaurs to the mainland. John Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition to reach the island before the mercenary team gets there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their...
8) Ghost town
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bertram Pincus is an irritable dentist whose people skills leave much to be desired. Pincus dies unexpectedly, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he wakes up to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him. Frank Herlihy, in particular, pesters him into breaking up the impending marriage of his widow Gwen. Now, Pincus is put squarely in the middle of a triangle with spirited...
Publisher
LucasFilm
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Description
Daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary dial that can change the course of history. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
10) Premium rush
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
11) Panic room
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Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg and her daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
12) The paper
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's editorial bedlam during one hectic, twenty-four-hour period at the New York Sun. To make the morning edition and scoop the competition, Henry Hackett must race against the clock to expose a major scandal, or two innocent men will go to prison. Thwarting him at every turn is his ambitious managing editor, who seems more concerned with staying on the budget than printing the truth.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The gripping story of a mysterious power failure that leads to the social breakdown of a major city. All forms of communication are wiped out--no electricity, no cash machines, no telecommunication. The system and the rules of society begin to crumble.
14) Apartment zero
Publisher
Union Station Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When two roommates move in together, suspicion rises between the two as one may be crazy and the other a killer.
15) The Mummy
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2017
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Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
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Ethan Hunt is an American secret agent who is framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking into the CIA's most impenetrable vault, clinging to the roof of a speeding bullet train, Hunt hotly races to stay one step ahead of his pursuers, and drawing one step closer to discovering the shocking truth.
Pub. Date
2014
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A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything, his relationship with his fiancée...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Indy tries to outrace a brilliant and beautiful agent for the mystical, all-powerful Crystal Skull of Akator. Teaming up with a rebellious young biker and his spirited love Marion, Indy takes you on a breathtaking, action-packed adventure.
19) Secret window
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following a bitter separation from his wife, famed mystery writer Mort Rainey is unexpectedly confronted at his remote lake house by a dangerous stranger named John Shooter. Claiming Mort has plagiarized his short story, the psychotic Shooter demands justice. When Shooter's demands turn to threats, and then to murder, Mort turns to a private detective he knows. But when nothing stops the horror from spiraling out of control, Mort soon discovers he...
20) Stir of echoes
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, ©2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.