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41) Dune: part two
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen on a warpath of revenge and endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.
42) Knife fight
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A political strategist must protect his clients in the midst of an unexpected crisis.
43) Black sheep
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The purge: If on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do? In a near-future America, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which all criminal activity, including murder, becomes legal: the Purge. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family is tested to see how far they will go to protect themselves when the vicious outside world breaks into their...
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
She was the ultimate patriot. Now, what she knows could bring down the government. Libby is a former top national security advisor who, while working with ruthless political veteran Rachel, signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror. Except thousands died under false pretenses. Haunted by this, Libby sets out to tell the truth, risking treason and her own life, to expose a cover-up that stretches all the...
47) The tempest
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
48) Meet John Doe
Description
Fired from her job, reporter Ann Mitchell invents a fictitious "John Doe" to write an idealistic letter threatening suicide in protest of social ills. The public response to the letter is so enormous that Ann's newspaper rehires her and hires an out-of-work baseball player, John Willoughby to play the part of John Doe. He enters into the hoax for the money but ultimately rebels against the evil, self-serving despots who attempt to further their own...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When Indigenous woman Alex Irving gains national acclaim for her heroism against a rampaging gunman, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson sees a publicity goldmine and handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt, and when Rachel betrays her, Alex seeks revenge that will upend the political establishment.
50) Absolute Power
Description
A jewel thief witnesses the American president commit a murder and cannot remain silent through the ensuing coverup.
51) Inside job
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Publisher's description: Provided is an analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research, and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, traces the rise of a rogue industry which has...
52) Panama
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When the U.S. is on the brink of invading Panama, a former marine is hired by a CIA operative for a top-secret arms trade mission.
Pub. Date
2016
Description
A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The Oval Office is up for grabs, and none of the players are playing nice, including Olivia Pope, who now realizes she can never be content as a wifely First Lady. Domestic bliss pales in comparison with holding the reins of the highest office in the land, so when faced with a chance to wield unrivaled influence at any cost, will she continue to wear the white hat, or prove that she is, indeed, her father's daughter?
57) Animal Farm
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
This rendering of Orwell's classic is set in the beautiful Irish countryside and populated with a wide variety of barnyard animals. Chaos ensues when the animals take over the farm.
58) Wolf Hall
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Follow Thomas Cromwell and his rise to power through a Tudor household.
59) Family adventure collector's set: Spirit Bear ; Sign of the otter ; Spirit of the eagle ; White Fang
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Spirit Bear: A shy fifteen-year-old finds the courage to fight for the habitat of the rare, white Kermode bear, Spirit Bear, in one of the largest land battles in history, after being rescued from a wilderness attack by Spirit Bear.
Sign of the otter: In his pursuit of the ruthless British commander who captured his son, Samuel Todd accepts the help of friendly, Native American chief Takhane.
Spirit of the eagle: Legendary mapmaker Big Eli McDonough...
60) The Conspirator
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...
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