Alan Bell
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida's newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he'd been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell's rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile "bubble" in the remote Arizona desert. As his career and marriage dissolved, Bell pursued medical treatments in a race...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived. She awakens from the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell deep inside the bunkered catacombs of District 13. Separated from some of her closest allies and fearing for their safety in the Capitol, Katniss finally agrees to be the Mockingjay, the symbolic leader of the rebellion. Still uncertain as to whom she can trust, Katniss must help 13 rise from the shadows, all the while knowing that President Snow has...
3) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
7) Red sparrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Three old men from Yorkshire who have never grown up face the trials of their fellow town citizens and everyday life and stay young by reminiscing about the days of their youth and attempting feats not common to the elderly.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent is furious. His home is about to be demolished to make way for a highway. Staging a sit-down protest in front of the bulldozers, his best friend tells him much worse news - the world will end in 12 minutes.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 6
Language
English
Description
When Arthur and his companions realize that the spacecraft they have stolen is heading towards the sun, certain doubts arise as to the wisdom of their decision.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 4
Language
English
Description
On board a giant construction platform deep inside the planet Magrathea, Arthur Dent is astonished to learn that his former planet Earth (recently destroyed by the Vogons) was not what it had seemed.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by his girlfriend Trillian and hitchhikers Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox heads the stolen spaceship Heart of Gold for the legendary planet of Magrathea.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 5
Language
English
Description
Having been blown to smithereens on the planet Magrathea, Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Trillian and Zaphod Beeblebrox are mystified when they find themselves at the end of the universe.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy volume 2
Language
English
Description
Rescued from Earth moments before its destruction to make way for a vast hyperspace highway, Arthur Dent and his alien friend, Ford Prefect, find themselves on board the actual demolition spacecraft.
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The amazing Spider-man: Peter Parker stumbles across a clue as to why his parents vanished when he was young, and soon finds himself on a collision course with his dad's former partner, Dr. Curt Connors.
The amazing Spider-man 2: Spider-Man's conflict has been within himself: the struggle between Peter Parker and the responsibilities of Spider-Man. But Peter Parker, finds that his greatest battle is about to begin. It's great to be Spider-Man, but...