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1) Lethal
Author
Description
After Honor Gillette is visited by Lee Coburn, a suspected murderer seeking a valuable object that Honor's late husband left behind, they find themselves running from the FBI and untangling a web of corruption and depravity.
2) Down by law
Series
Criterion collection volume 166
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (107 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for a crime they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
3) Unwind
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Formats
Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American expat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the test.
5) Halt's peril
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
386 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
6) Marathon man
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Hoffman plays the likeable Columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title, unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous Nazi fugitive"--Container.
Author
Series
Description
A visionary young filmmaker hunted for sport across a vast Colorado ranch by the celebrated billionaire at the heart of a monstrous cabal . . . A brilliant computer hacker slipping through top-secret databases a whisper ahead of security trackers, gathering the facts to fight the all-powerful perpetrators of mass murder . . . A pair of brutal operators, methodically shadowing their targets with every cutting-edge tool in the arsenal of today's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 734-735
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman , they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
9) UnDivided
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Incorporated
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Description
The bird has come for its prey! Newly re-mastered in HD! Screen legends Robert Shaw and Malcolm McDowell co-star as desperate fugitives in an unnamed foreign land, wanted for unknown crimes by a nameless, faceless enemy. Against a raw, unforgiving backdrop of parched desert and frozen mountains, MacConnachie (Shaw) and Ansell (McDowell) run for their lives, but even as they cross a seemingly endless expanse of open territory, the walls of their "cage"...
11) A perfect world
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A prison escapee on the run with a young hostage is chased by a Texas Ranger.
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
307 pages cm
Description
A Colorado beauty named Silver Matlock seeks vengeance against the man who left her at the altar and made off with her family fortune, and is joined in her mission by a relentless bounty hunter with a troubled past named Jared Newman.
13) Child of God
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1973]
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Falsely accused of rape, Lester Ballard is released from jail, and a trip to the dry-goods store, an errand to the blacksmith, and other incidents are transformed into scenes of the comic and the grotesque.
14) The fugitive
Formats
Description
A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
15) The long night
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joe Adams, a factory worker trapped inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious gentleman, reconstructs the events leading up to the shooting through an intricate series of flashbacks.
Author
Series
Texas tradition volume no. 22
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
vi, 196 p. ; 24 cm.
Formats
Description
Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their small and peaceful hometown. But when his namesake niece, "Young Charlie" suspects that he may in fact be the psychopathic Merry Widow killer, Uncle Charlie must plot the death of his favorite relation in order to remain one step ahead of the law in this murderous game of cat-and-mouse.
19) U.S. Marshals
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when the FBI's John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ix, 303 [1] pages ; 24 cm
Description
Changing her name and appearance to flee town after leaving her husband dead, Tanya Dubois forges an uneasy alliance off the grid at the side of a female bartender with whom she races from city to city to escape her past.
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