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4901) 21
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
"Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor (Kevin Spacey) and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his...
4902) State of play
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
The murder of an ambitious politician's researcher leads journalist Cal McCaffrey to uncover a complex thriller revealing the links between government and big business.
4903) Dead cert
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Bill Davidson's horse 'Admiral' behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies from the injuries. His friend suspects the horse was doped by unscrupulous bookies and begins to investigate.
4904) Pandemic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a Los Angeles bound passenger airline reports an inexplicable death mid-flight, Dr. Kayla Martin of the Center for Disease Control is called in to evaluate the frightening possibilities. She must determine if it is the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack or worse, a new virus that can't be contained. With the clock ticking and a search for Patient Zero commencing around the globe, the virus begins to spread, the body...
4906) Black rain
Pub. Date
2006
Description
New York detective Nick Conklin is a down on his luck, under investigation by Internal Affairs. He and his friend Charlie witness a brutal murder at the meeting between Mafia and Yakuza chieftains. After arresting a suspect named Sato, they are assigned to escort him to Osaka, where they promptly hand him over to his fellow gangsters, disguised as cops. Determined to pursue the escaped suspect, Nick and Charlie besiege the Osaka police for help. They...
4907) Gravity
Pub. Date
2014
Description
"Dr. Ryan Stone (Oscar winner Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (Oscar winner George Clooney). On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the...
4908) Alone in the dark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Homicide Detective Scarlett Bishop has seen enough bad guys slip through the cracks and innocent victims go unavenged to know that good doesn't always prevail. So far shes been able to lock away her rage and her vigilante fantasies. That lock is about to break. Former Army Ranger Marcus O'Bannion is a fierce champion of victims rights. His secret past gives him good reason. He believes hes seen the depths of human depravity, but then his investigation...
4909) Death tunnel
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Based upon a true story about a Kentucky hospital built in 1910 where 63,000 people died from a disease known as the 'white plague.' Upon their death they traveled through what they called the 'Death Tunnel.'
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple's path.
4911) Hard fire
Author
Series
A Jon Reznick Thriller volume Book 10
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Jon Reznick is not a man to cross. A brutally effective black-ops veteran, Reznick has a history of taking the law into his own hands. So when a group of masked men murders his closest friend, he swears to exact vengeance. The now-deceased Bill Eastland had been Reznick's last living tie to his father, leaving him devastated ... and furious. Whether or not the FBI approves, he swears to hunt down whoever issued the hit on his friend. With the help...
4912) Silent Hill
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Rose cannot accept the medical diagnosis that her daughter, who suffers nightmarish trances, is going insane. Over the protests of her husband, Rose flees with their child, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill. There, Rose is hoping that Sharon's traces can be explained. It is revealed that the town had been evacuated thirty years earlier due to an unstoppable, still burning underground coal fire. A local motorcycle cop ends up pursuing Rose and Sharon...
4913) Dirty
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A gang member-turned-cop is forced to choose between his conscience and his loyalty. Recruited into an undercover, anti-gang unit of the LAPD, Amrmado Sancho brings his street smarts onto the force that he has sworn to protect. With his partner Salim Adel, the two patrol LA's streets with force.
4914) Titanic
Formats
Description
Deep-sea explorer Brock Lovett has reached the most famous shipwreck of all, the passenger liner Titanic. Emerging with a safe believed to contain a diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean," he finds that the safe does not hold the diamond but a drawing of a beautiful woman wearing it. When Brock is interviewed on TV, he shows the drawing to the cameras. A 100-year-old woman named Rose Calvert recognizes the woman in the drawing as herself! On a visit...
4915) 24: Season 5
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer is forced to return to Los Angeles when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive are being systemically targeted for assassination. The assassinations coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty between Russia and the U.S., leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists.
Author
Series
Alice in Borderland volume 9
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
After stumbling on a dealer's bunker, Arisu is even more determined to uncover the terrible truth behind Borderland. But that means he and Usagi will have to abandon their plans to sit out the games and instead seek out the last person who might have the answers--the Queen of Hearts. Will taking on the queen find them a way home, or will it be their final game?
4917) Lost highway
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Fred Madison is a saxophonist who finds a video tape on his doorstep that shows the interior of his house. He becomes convinced that someone has broken in and calls the police. He finds another videotape showing him killing his wife. The police arrest for murdering his wife. In prison, he inexplicably morphs into a young man named Pete Dayton and begins living a completely different life. When Pete is released, his and Fred's paths begin to cross...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Desperate to find and stop his brother as soon as possible, Senri reluctantly agrees to meet with Detective Wakazono. The offbeat officer has his own reasons for wanting to find--and finish off--the 'fire' man, but Senri is determined to beat him to it. Armed with new information and the few clues surrounding his parents' deaths, Senri and Ena journey through the countryside, piecing together the past. Each step leads them closer to Kazuto...but...
4919) Thr3e
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Upon completing his graduate thesis, Kevin Parson is forced to face his own dark past when he is targeted by the psychopathic Riddle Killer. Following a terrifying encounter, in which he is given seconds to confess before his car is blown to bits, Kevin meets up with a criminal psychologist whose brother was killed in a similarly explosive confrontation. Together they must solve Kevin's mystifying riddle and uncover his connection to the murderer...
4920) The lookout
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girl friend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also lives with a blind friend who aids him. He is unable...