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21) Red team blues
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A self-employed forensic accountant, 67-year-old Martin Hench, a world-level expert on international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery, is roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before – one that will take all his skill to get out alive.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over. But even as governments around the world try to get it under control, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent another pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this? Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and he has written a largely upbeat book that lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should learn from...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. Munroe has created a guide to the third kind of approach. He provides highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole. Cartoonist Randall Munroe (xkcd) explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to...
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In this terrifying tale by New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey, a young aspiring serial killer goes in search of a mentor—the supreme, the ultimate killer. What he finds is much greater and much worse than he ever could have imagined.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (19 hr., 43 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The debut season of a Star Trek television series that took place slightly farther on in the future than the iconic original Star Trek did (a future that, unsurprisingly, bore a greater resemblance to the 1980s than that 1960s-flavored future of Kirk and Spock did), the crew of its U.S.S. Enterprise--especially the intrepid, considerably less feckless and occasionally somewhat more pompous Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart--that came...
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 477 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released in 1977, part of its appeal was that the world it presented felt alive. Landspeeders and starships were dirty. Droids broke down. And it was filled with cool, weird, and really weird background characters. (Really, just take a look around the Mos Eisley cantina.) Never mind Han, Luke, Leia, Darth Vader, and Obi-Wan. Who were these other guys? What was their story? Just seeing them brought up questions...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (approximately 203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Toy soldiers: The Regis School (better known as the "Rejects School") is where America's most powerful families send their wayward sons after they've been kicked out of the better prep schools. But faced with certain death at the hands of terrorists, the toughest of the troublemakers surprise the dean with a brilliant and daring plan to save their classmates.
December: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and changed the course of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver...
Author
Language
English
Description
April 14, 1865. As four year of Civil War draw to a close, our country again faces unforgettable tragedy: the assassination of the President. Starring Lance Henriksen as the Great Emancipator and Rob Morrow as assassin John Wilkes Booth, this riveting recreation of The Day Lincoln Was Shot (from Jim Bishop's landmark book) is a thrilling and detailed chronicle of the plot, murder and manhunt that changed America forever. To avenge what he called the...
31) Old Venus
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois
From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed...
From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 Blu-rays (approximately 1,048 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The pebble and the penguin: A lovable but introverted penguin named Hubie plans to present his betrothal pebble to the bird of his dreams.
The secret of NIMH: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
The greatest story ever told: Chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
The black stallion: After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast...