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Amanda Jaffe novels volume 5
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"Veteran lawyer Amanda Jaffe is hired to represent Brandon, but what seems like an open-and-shut case quickly begins to unravel. If Brandon is really innocent?a radical activist determined to martyr himself for his cause?then who viciously murdered Dale Masterson? And what, if any, is the connection between his murder and the murder of Christine Larson? Smart, fierce, and unafraid of the truth even if it puts her in danger, Amanda begins to look deeper....
3) Pioneer
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1981 when the race to extract oil from below the North Sea leads to a tragic accident, a professional diver involved tries to find out who is responsible.
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Series
Hector Cross novels volume 1
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Description
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
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Holland family saga volume 1
Description
"From "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post): A sprawling thriller drenched with atmosphere and intrigue that takes a young boy from a chance encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to the trenches of World War II and the oil fields along the Texas-Louisiana coast. It is 1934 and the Depression is bearing down when sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies....
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 19
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
14 CDs (18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Dirk Pitt is nearly killed rescuing an oil survey team, it appears a simple act of nature. But when the survey team is abducted and Pitt's research vessel nearly sunk, however, it's obvious there's something more sinister involved. All trails lead to Mongolia where a mysterious mogul is conducting covert deals for supplying oil to the Chinese while wreaking havoc on global oil markets utilizing a secret technology. The Mongolian harbors a dream...
7) Arabesque
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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Description
In this exciting romantic thriller, an American hieroglyphics professor is hired by a mysterious Arab oil magnate to decipher a secret message. When the hidden meaning is revealed, the chase is on as he and the oil magnate's exotic yet unpredictable companion find themselves caught in the middle of an assassination plot.
8) Syriana
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. Across the globe, a disenfranchised...
9) Syriana
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
There is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some people rich and others dead. Career CIA field operative Bob Barnes is sorting out his midcareer issues--his bosses want him quietly confined to a desk job. Bryan Woodman, an expatriate in Geneva, becomes the financial adviser to idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir. Corporate lawyer Bennett Holiday is finessing the questionable merger of two powerful U.S. oil companies. In Prince Nasir's country,...
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
ix, 384 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After the demise of the Soviet Union, the newly-established Russian government privatized its industry by issuing vouchers to all of its citizens, allowing them the chance to be shareholders in the country’s burgeoning businesses. The slips are distributed among the population and auctions are arranged where they can be exchanged for actual shares. For the country’s rural populations living in abject poverty, the vouchers appear to be little...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Description
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil...
12) The overnighters
Series
Drafthouse Films volume no. 27
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial "Overnighters" program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance with his community, forcing the clergyman to make a decision...
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