John Houseman
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
With the failure of President Hoover's policies at the end of 1929, marked by the stock market crash on October 24, 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the decade that began with the dream of endless progress and prosperity came to an end with millions unemployed. American industrial workers who had lost their jobs lined up in the streets for a bowl of soup and hunk of bread. Depression, new technology and foreclosure by the banks drove more than...
3) The Fog
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
According to legend, six sailors killed when shipwrecked 100 years ago in Antonio Bay, California, will rise to avenge their deaths when a strange glowing fog appears. The town is commemorating the centenary of the shipwreck and Father Malone discovers a diary kept by an ancestor; he learns that the ship was wrecked by six founder fathers of the town. The vengeance of their victims will be the death of six people. As daylight fades, a mysterious fog...
4) Ghost story
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Four elderly gentlemen realize that a horrific secret from their past is coming back to haunt them.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily seperates the men from the boys.
9) Winds of war
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells an epic story of military strategy, politics, romance, and family conflict set against the backdrop of world events from 1938 through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Follows naval officer Victor "Pug" Henry as he is sent to Berlin as the U.S. Naval attaché. Shows how "Pug" and his family are drawn into the center of the conflicts that lead to America's involvement in World War II as Germany expands and proceeds to seize several...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Turner is a CIA agent with the code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies, not to mention his so-called allies. After reporting the murders to his superiors, the organization wants to bring Condor in, but somebody is trying to take him out. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate run for his life, Turner abducts photographer Kathy Hale and eventually seduces her into helping him....
12) The fog
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
A Northern California fishing town, built 100 years ago over an old leper colony, is the target for revenge by a killer fog containing zombie-like ghosts seeking revenge for their deaths.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Based on John Ehrlichman's post-Watergate novel The Company, set against the backdrop of a war in Southeast Asia, this award-winning miniseries tells the story of a paranoid president, an administration under siege, and a reckless group of White House aides desperate to hold onto power.
14) My bodyguard
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Clifford, a new student at a high school, enlists the aid of an overgrown misfit against the school bully, and a special friendship arises.
15) The Blue Dahlia
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A World War II veteran is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In early 20th century Vienna, Stefan Brand is in the process of fleeing on the eve of a duel he wants no part of. However, before he can do so, he receives an anonymous letter from an unknown woman. Stefan is deeply moved by what he reads and starts to realize that the letter's author is Lisa Berndl, a young woman he's known but disregarded for most of his life.
17) Executive suite
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
The president of a furniture company suddenly dies, leaving seven board members locked in a power struggle.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. Among them is 23-years-young Bowie, who spent the last seven years in prison and now hopes to be able to prove his innocence or retire to a home in the mountains and live in peace together with his new love, Kitty. But his criminal companions persuade him to participate in several heists, and soon the police believe him to be their leader and go after "Bowie the Kid" harder than ever.
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