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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Life behind bars is a real pain in the butt. Just ask Earl, whose commitment to good karma has landed him in the big house. His shackled hands are full. There's a gang war to stifle and a gala prison prom to plan. Even conjugal visit day is one big headache! With a pregnant ex-wife and a hilariously inept prison guard for a brother, Earl suffers a karmic crisis and finally goes over the top!
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
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Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
664) Three Came Home
Pub. Date
2005
Description
During World War II, the Far East island of Borneo is captured by the Japanese. Based on true events this is the story of American author Agnes Newton Keith who along with her husband, a British administrator, is arrested. Their family is separated and placed into different prison camps. The camp commander takes an avid interest in the authoress, but does not intervene when she is subject to torture, starvation and humiliation at the hands of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Following the events of Kristallnacht in 1938, Peter Fleischmann evaded the Gestapo's midnight roundups in Berlin by way of a perilous journey to England via the Kindertransport train. But he could not escape the British police, who came for him in the early hours and shipped him off to Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, under suspicion of being a spy for the very regime he had fled. Peter's story was no isolated incident. During Hitler's rise to...
666) The escape game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Description
For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the beginning, as Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman make dramatically clear in this powerfully original book....
670) 8 movie action pack
Pub. Date
[2012], ©2012
Description
Trancers I: Angel City, 2245. Trooper Jack Deth is battling the last disciples of Whistler, who used his powers to entrance and control his army. When Deth discovers Whistler has time traveled to 1985 and is killing the ancestors of his enemies, he launches a deadly mission to stop a notorious murderer.
Equilibrium: Mankind has outlawed the things that trigger emotion, and to uphold the law, a special breed of police is assigned to eliminate all...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The nutty professor I: An overweight chemist creates a potion to make him the lean and charming self-centered Buddy Love.
The nutty professor II: Professor Klump finds romance with a lovely fellow geneticist. When his alter ego Buddy Love breaks out and threatens trouble, its up to the rest of the hefty Klump family to save the day.
Bowfinger: With the help of Jiff Ramsey, brother to Hollywood's biggest star, Hollywood's least successful director...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"This film reveals the extraordinary stories, told by survivors of North Korea's vast prison camps, of deadly famine, and of every kind of repression. Their experiences are interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored, and whose every thought could bring official retribution." -- Container.
674) Hart's war
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
When a law student and lieutenant during WWII is captured and asked to defend an African American soldier who is falsly accused of a crime he finds that the trial is a front for secret plans brewing in the prison camp.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
The Eiger sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps.
Coogan's bluff: An Arizona lawman's unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer angers a tough NYC police lieutenant.
The beguiled: A wounded soldier finds shelter in an all-girls...