Robert Forster
2) Mr. Paradise
Author
Description
"Sharp as an ice pick....You will love this excellent book."
—New York Times Book Review
Elmore Leonard is the undisputed master, the "King Daddy of crime writers" (Seattle Times), in the august company of the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction genre: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al. The creator of such unforgettable classics as Stick, Out of Sight, and Get Shorty—not to mention the character
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Series
Jesse Stone mysteries volume 3
Description
“[Parker's found] the pitch-perfect voice for a guy who is straining every muscle to cut down on the booze, hang on to his new job as police chief, and not get rattled by the body of a teenage girl”(The New York Times) in this bestselling mystery in the Jesse Stone series.
Robert B. Parker takes readers back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girl—and someone,...
Robert B. Parker takes readers back in Paradise, where Detective Jesse Stone is looking for two things: the killer of a teenage girl—and someone,...
4) Double play
Author
Description
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and changes the world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. Burke, a veteran of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength...
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Connor Mead is the kind of guy who dumps three girlfriends - at one time and by teleconference. So when he goes home to attend his brother's wedding, he has a singular goal in mind: score with the only bridesmaid he has somehow managed to miss. But the ghost of his departed Uncle Wayne - who taught him to love 'em and then leave 'em - has another goal in mind: restore Connor's lost faith in true love. This will be a tough assignment, one that will...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
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Description
A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
9) Survivor
Publisher
Alchemy
Pub. Date
[2015]
Formats
Description
A Foreign Service Officer newly posted to the American embassy in London is charged with stopping terrorists from getting into the US. After surviving a vicious attack on the embassy, she finds herself framed for crimes she didn't commit and racing to elude assassins while trying to clear her name and stop a large-scale terrorist attack set for New Year's Eve.
10) Touching home
Publisher
Distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Lane and Clint Winston, twin brothers from a working-class background, pursue professional baseball careers while trying to save their homeless, alcoholic father Charlie. A coming-of-age drama, an account of overcoming enormous odds, and a tale about family and the bonds that matter.
11) Jackie Brown
Formats
Description
What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! The only questions are, who's getting played, and who's going to make the big score? Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor.
16) Medium cool
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Set in 1968 in Chicago at the time of the Democratic National Convention, this is the story of a TV cameraman and his involvement with the realities of hate and hypocrisy he finds in his filming.
17) Cleaner
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Single father and former cop Tom Carver has an unusual vocation-- he cleans up crime scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Carver is shocked to learn that he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover up.
18) The black hole
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Scientists are all aboard an Earth discovery vessel on a fruitless search for life in space when they encounter a lost spaceship perched on the event horizon of the universe's most powerful phenomenon, a black hole.
19) South Beach
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Two ex-football players concentrate on living the good life in prime Miami Beach. In their spare time, they're private eyes--but their partying lifestyles are thrown for a loop when they accept a mysterious challenge from an exotic beauty.