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821) On target
Author
Series
Gray Man thrillers volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Four years ago, Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. To survive, he had to eliminate his own brothers in arms. Now, as a master assassin known as the Gray Man, he makes his living killing other people. But when an old comrade he thoughtdead returns to haunt him, his own life is put in the crosshairs. The man wants Court to complete a mission, with one crucial catch to his orders: Instead of a difficult assassination, the job will...
Author
Publisher
Lexographic Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 21 cm
Description
On the night that Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974, journalist Roger D. Rapoport, was a short distance away in his Bay Area home in his El Cerrito home. He quickly became one of the primary reporters covering the saga as it unfolded in real time. His reporting gave local and national readers a window into one of the most bizarre and polarizing crimes in U.S. history. Now, fifty years later, he has written a novel, Searching for Patty Hearst, that...
823) The king of comedy
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperate to be a star, struggling stand-up comedian Rupert Pupkin enlists the aid of his fanatical friend Masha to kidnap talk show host Jerry Langford. The ransom? A guest spot for Pupkin.
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (590 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet and 3 Blu-rays.
Description
Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, the World Cinema Project expands the horizons of moviegoers everywhere. Their mission is to preserve and present marginalized and infrequently screened films from regions of the world ill-equipped to provide funding for major restorations. This set brings together six films from various countries, including Bangladesh/India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, South Korea, and Turkey; each is a cinematic revelation, depicting...
826) Runner
Author
Series
Jane Whitefield novels volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Native American guide Jane Whitefield returns from retirement to the world of the runner determined to hide a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's 1914, and twelve-year old Darleen Darling has the most exciting job in the world--she gets to dangle from cliffs and stop moving trains and soar through the sky in runaway balloons! Yes, that's right: Darleen is a hero and a star--in the make-believe world of the movies ... But Darleen's fictional adventures collide with reality when a fake kidnapping intended as a publicity stunt becomes all too real. Now she is in the hands of the dastardly...
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Formats
Description
"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
829) Unicorn boy
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
203 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"The first few years of Brian Reyes' life were unremarkable--nothing weird about this kid, no sir. Then, one day, a bump appeared on his head, and it grew... and grew... and grew until it was a full-blown, sparkling, singing unicorn horn. That's absolutely the last thing a shy kid like Brian wants, but destiny waits for no unicorn boy. Luckily, Brian has his reassuring pal Avery to keep him grounded as weird occurrences start stacking up, like Brian's...
830) Dangerous deception
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Sixth-grader Emmy and her classmates start a secret community service project to help a hungry family, but soon Emmy finds herself involved in a home burglary ring operated by the family's neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Based on a set of unfinished Mark Twain notes for a children's story, this is the tale of Johnny, a young boy with a magical ability to speak to animals who sets off to rescue a stolen prince"--
Author
Formats
Description
"Charlotte has everything in life that she ever could have hoped for: a doting, artistic husband, a small-but-thriving flower shop, and her sweet, smart five-year-old daughter, Daisy. Her relationship with her mother might be strained, but the distance between them helps. And her younger brother Rocco may have horrible taste in women, but when he introduces his new girlfriend to Charlotte and her family, they are cautiously optimistic that she could...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
From the moment Hector Guzman entered a coma, Sophie Brinkmann has regretted joining his crime family. Hector's right hand, Aron Geisler, is doing all he can to keep the sinking ship afloat and keep Sophie in their steely grip. But when Hector's brother is murdered in Biarritz, Sophie gains the upper hand, and intends to use it. Sophie becomes a player in a game where the rules are constantly changing, where loyalty and friendship are rendered meaningless....
835) Mercy road
Author
Publisher
Well Go USA Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"After committing an impulsive, vicious crime while searching for his missing daughter, a frantic father goes on the run from law enforcement and soon begins receiving chilling calls from an unknown entity claiming to know her whereabouts. As he faithfully follows the callerb2(Bs increasingly unhinged instructions, he is driven perilously close to the edge of sanity while discovering exactly how far he is willing to go to save his child"--
836) Back spin
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2000
Physical Desc
7 CDs (8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The boy was born and raised on the Main Line, but he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. The boy's mother, Linda Coldren, is a golf superstar...and Myron Bolitar's client. When he goes after the missing boy, presumed kidnapped, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. Meanwhile, Linda's husband is trying to stage a comeback at the U.S. Open, only to be found dead in a sand trap. Suddenly...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Discovering that his troubled adult daughter has been kidnapped, a washed-up movie star with no money to pay the ransom turns to his closest friends, a legendary Hollywood stunt man and a disgraced former LAPD detective, to get her back"--
838) Fairy lies
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Half-fairy Tamisin and her boyfriend, Jak, have been arguing over whether she should return to the land of the fey when Oberon, king of the fairies, kidnaps her and Jak must return to that place of fairies, goblins, and sphinxes to rescue her.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (886 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container.
Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container.
Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container.
River's...
Series
Criterion collection volume 643
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An innocent British couple touring Switzerland with their daughter get caught up in a web of international intrigue, kidnapping, and assassination.
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