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Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Robert Young stars as veteran journalist John Davis, who is covering the war with the British allies in London. When his pregnant wife Nora is injured in an air raid there, The couple is robbed of their chance of ever becoming parents - until John picks up on an assignment that changes their lives forever.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor and sentenced to hang for trespassing. But Van Horn stages a breakout with other unjustly incarcerated prisoners, resurfacing as the rakish Barracuda to command the pirate waterways, rescue fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenge the wrongs done to him.
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
4) Torpedo run
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A navel officer's insatiable thirst for vengeance puts his command at risk in the WWII action adventure.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Flamboyant circus owner "Hank Whiting "is in trouble. His enterprise is in need of a cash injection from the bank who only agree to a loan on the condition their employee "Randy Sherman " goes along to keep an eye on proceedings. When he engages a high powered PR woman, tension develops between the outsiders and the circus hard core. That is not the end of it however--there is sabotage to contend with, rain washes away much of the season, and a fatality...
8) Lost Angel
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A little girl named Alpha looks like a typical six-year-old. But to the professors she's an experiment: an orphan raised to be a genius. After newsman Mike Regan interviews the prodigy and gets her thinking about life beyond ivy-clad walls, Alpha flees her 'home' for adventure. The enterprising tot tracks Mike to a boxing match and soon gets involved with his job, his love life and, maybe, his future, if the irresponsible Mike ever realizes that what...
9) Gung Ho
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ron Howard directs and Michael Keaton stars in this classic comedy. Keaton plays wheeler-dealer Hunt Stevenson, who hopes to save a failing Pennsylvania automobile-assembly factory from having to close its doors. Thinking he has found a solution, Hunt persuades a Japanese auto firm to reopen the factory, retrain its staff, and streamline the operation. But it isn't long before the American-born workers grow to resent the disciplinary demands of their...
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nurse Anne Lee arrives at understaffed, underfunded Hepperton General Hospital with an eagerness to serve. Dealing with an epidemic, a multi-casualty bus accident and other emergencies, she'll find opportunities to do so again and again. She'll also find something else: redemption for a fatal past error for which she, although innocent, accepted the blame.
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Texas 1935. It's a time of boomtowns or bust for oil wildcatters and, time and again, derby-topped Mr. Cox has come out flat busted. No worries. Mr. Cox has a mule-headed optimism. He's sure as the sunrise that near the town of Henrietta on a cotton farm that raises more dust than bolls, there's black gold beneath the barren sod.
13) Rio Rita
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Two stowaways endure a long ride, only to find themselves in the wrong town and mixed up with Nazi spies, old flames, new friends, and a secret code books.
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Traveling Saleslady finds Joan playing a toothpaste heiress who takes her "cocktail-flavored toothpaste" discovery on the road and to the competition, after her father decides that the office is no place for a lady. Glenda plays a drugstore proprietress and provides Joan's romantic competition, while Hugh Herbert plays a zany inventor.
Miss Pacific Fleet has the girls playing carnival hucksters, stranded and strapped for cash on the wrong coast....
16) On borrowed time
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Death comes for Gramps Northrup, Gramps isn't ready to go because that would leave his grandson alone, so he uses magic to trap Death in a tree. But with Death on hiatus, others whose time has come and who are in ill and in pain, cannot be released from their suffering. Gramps begins to wonder if he has done the right thing.
17) The male animal
Series
Pub. Date
1942.
Language
English
Description
"Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner, struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game, the arrival of an ex-gridiron star... fancied by Turner's wife and the academic tussle that treatens the professor's tenure"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
He's a private eye on the run from a conspiracy rap in a phony murder case. She's a dizzy poet he takes hostage, and takes on the adventure of her life to track down the real killer. Naturally, despite constant peril and the PI's penchant for goofball disguises, romance blooms. Join two iconic stars in a comic world that's wacky, witty and completely wonderful.
19) Joy of living
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A wealthy playboy attempts to loosen up a Broadway actress, who he is convinced is being pushed around by her money-grubbing family.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Miscreants beware! The Falcon is on the hunt! Suave, sophisticated, hard-boiled and high-minded, amateur sleuths Gay and Tom Lawrence. Collection includes: The Gay Falcon; A Date with The Falcon; The Falcon Takes Over; The Falcon's Brother; The Falcon Strikes Back; The Falcon in Danger; and The Falcon and the Co-eds.
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