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Howard Koch
1) Casablanca
Language
English
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Description
The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
Series
Language
English
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Description
Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Eye of the needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On Halloween Eve 1938, Orson Welles put on a radio play of 'War of the Worlds' and terrorized an uneasy American public on the brink of World War II, perpetuating the greatest hoax in history and changing media forever. This book brings to life this fateful night and follows the life and career of Welles before and after the historic broadcast.
6) Untraceable
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Marsh is an FBI secret service agent who gets caught up in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer. The killer knows that people are drawn to the curious and the dark side of things. They will log onto an 'untraceable' website where the killer conducts violent and painful murders live on the internet. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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With the Five on her tail, a beautiful and young werewolf named Vivian looks for peace in the arms of a man named Aiden while trying to escape the relentless infatuation of Gabriel. After a series of 'accidental' murders happen, it threatens to tear and expose her pack apart.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The walking dead: Boris Karloff is resurrected anew in the eerie tale of a man framed for murder. Sent to the chair ... and seeking revenge after being brought back to life by science.
Frankenstein 1970: Dr. Frankenstein allows a film crew access to shoot a horror flick at his family castle ... and now having what he needs for his monstrous experiments -- fresh young body parts ready for harvesting!
You'll find out: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and...
11) A New leaf
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Henry Graham is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry, refuses to give him a dime, so Henry devises a plan with the help of his imaginative butler to make his money the old-fashioned way, he can marry it.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
13) The black sleep
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"The masters of classic horror (Basil Rathbone, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney) gather together and meet in a spooky old house in which a crazed scientist creates frightening human mutants"--Container.
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Adventures of Robin Hood: Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian.
Captain Blood: Set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king.
Sea Hawk: In the days when England controlled the seas, the Sea Hawk lay in wait, ready to attack the Spanish Armada and treasure ships.
Adventures of...
16) Three strangers
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
According to a ancient Chinese legend, if three strangers come together before the Chinese idol, Kwan Yin at midnight of the Chinese New Year, she will grant their wish. Crystal Shackleford brings Johnny West and Jerome Arbutny to her apartment to fulfill the legend of the three strangers. They buy shares in a winning lottery ticket which changes their lives, but not in the ways they expected.
17) Casablanca
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
18) Airplane!
Pub. Date
2005, cc[1980]
Language
English
Description
The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in this spoof of disaster movies.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The war lover: In England during World War II, bomber pilots fall for the same girl, but only one will make it through the war to ask for her hand. Hellcats of the Navy: Highlights the daring exploits of a submarine commander whose mission is to chart the minefields in the waters of Japan during World War II. This is Ronald and Nancy Reagan's only screen appearance together. Anzio: A war correspondent paints a vivid portrait of one of the bloodiest...