William Hoy
Author
Language
English
Description
Former New York cop, Johnny Taggett, our hero in this mystery novel takes many turns and keeps you thinking, it holds your attention. In this self-indulged style of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade or Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe, writer William Hoy takes you thru the gumshoe's story of intrigue, dirty back alleys, dirty ashtrays, dirty offices and lets us remember and reflect on a time when pulp fiction was at its heyday.
Taggett the perfect...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the beloved literary classic, this is the story of Buck, a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail delivery dog sled team, and later its leader, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime, ultimately finding his true place in the world...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2009.
Language
English
Description
In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging...
Series
Planet of the apes volume 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
6) Outbreak
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A take-charge army virologist tryies to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. Its mortality rate is 100%. And some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebomb the town and everyone in it.
Series
Star trek volume 6
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. Ironically, it is Admiral James T. Kirk who is the first emissary to broker that peace. Yet all hope is virtually lost when the U.S.S. Enterprise and crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.
8) 300
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....