Virginia Madsen
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An astronaut-in-training has to leave NASA (to save the family farm) but just can't give up on his dream of shooting into space, even if he has to do it all by himself. And that will of course get everyone up in arms, from his wife to his banker to the town gossips to the media and the Department of Homeland Security.
3) The Hot spot
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Harry Madox, a charismatic drifter finds work as a car salesman in a small town in Texas. He quickly becomes involved with two beautiful, complex women. When Madox hatches a sure-fire plan to rob the local bank, he becomes enmeshed in a lethal web of lust, greed, and extortion, whose only escape is murder.
4) Firewall
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Bank security expert Jack Stanfield specializes in designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there is a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for -- himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million in a matter of hours.
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter receives a book for his birthday from his wife. The first words he reads changes his once placid existence into a whirlpool of psychological torture and mayhem, for the book is a chilling murder mystery that seems to mirror Walter's life in dark and uncontrollable ways.
8) Joy
Language
English
Description
A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
11) Artworks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
13) Sideways
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
A pair of friends takes a road trip through wine country to celebrate Jack's final bachelor days. They indulge in a mid-life crisis consisting of wine, women and a yearning for the past, but they eventually collide with reality.
16) Red Riding Hood
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut. They soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history. The house was once a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred. The owner's clairvoyant son, Jonah, served as a demonic messenger. He provided a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover. Now unspeakable terror awaits when Jonah, the boy who communicated with the dead, returns to unleash horror on the...
19) Firewall
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bank security expert Jack Stanfield specializes in designing infallible theft-proof financial computer systems. But there is a hidden vulnerability in the system he didn't account for - himself. When a ruthless criminal mastermind kidnaps his family, Jack is forced to find a flaw in his system and steal $100 million. With the lives of his wife and children at stake and under constant surveillance, he has only hours to find a loophole in the thief's...
20) Candyman
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A search for dissertation material leads a graduate student to an old tale about a slave spirit said to haunt a notorious housing project.