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(0)John Ireland
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A magnificent Alaskan dog who leads his team to victory in the National Open Sled Dog Race, Kavik is bought by wealthy, unscrupulous businessman George Hunter, but his plane crashes en route to Seattle. Twelve-year-old Andy finds the badly wounded Kavik in the woods, nurses him back to health when no one believes he will survive, and loves the once proud dog, who is left fearful and cowardly by the accident. Hearing of Kavik's amazing recovery, Hunter...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of working class hero Southern demagogue Willie Stark--rising from the mud of the back country--and his long climb to the top, followed by his longer drop to the bottom. Abetted by newspaper reporter Jack Burden, who becomes his chronicler, Stark's career begins with running for county treasurer and losing. Through law school, private practice, and finally as people's advocate against corruption, he moves up the political ladder....
4) Red River
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
With no market for his herd, the master of a vast cattle ranch and his son decide to head the first cattle drive over the now famous Chisholm Trail, past the Red River, into Missouri. The path is filled with hardship and the drive looks hopeless as the men struggle to prevail.
5) Rawhide
Pub. Date
1965, [2014]
Language
English
Description
Rowdy Yates is promoted to trail boss as the iconic Western with the classic theme song rides on into the sunset.
Series
Language
English
Description
A prank phone call leads to a night of pure terror. With her parents away on an overnight trip, Libby amuses herself by joining her friend Kit, in calling up strangers and whispering, 'I saw what you did.' When Libby dials Steve Marak, a psychopath who just murdered his wife, his jealous neighbor listens in on the call, a conversation that ends with the panicky killer determined to silence them all.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dead for a dollar: In a rip-roaring Spaghetti Western with some of the most memorable shootouts in Western history, a ruthless cowboy tracks down his double-crossing partners. Cain's cutthroats: In the final days of the Civil War, peace has not yet come for one man. The war still rages on in the soul of a Confederate officer obsessed with revenge for the rape of his wife and the death of his son.
10) Little Big Horn
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Every Sioux arrow points to an upcoming massacre as a Seventh Cavalry patrol sets out on a 250-mile trek to warn General Custer that an Indian trap is about to spring shut on him.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A magnificent Alaskan dog who leads his team to victory in the National Open Sled Dog Race, Kavik is bought by wealthy, unscrupulous businessman George Hunter, but his plane crashes en route to Seattle. Twelve-year-old Andy finds the badly wounded Kavik in the woods, nurses him back to health when no one believes he will survive, and loves the once proud dog, who is left fearful and cowardly by the accident. Hearing of Kavik's amazing recovery, Hunter...
Series
Miriam collection volume 2
Language
English
Description
Marcus Aurelius Antonius, the philosopher-emperor of Rome, summons his empire's governors and princes to his German war headquarters for a Pax Romanus. He confides to his daughter, Lucilla, that his adopted son, Livius, will succeed him instead of his more unstable heir, Commodus. Overhearing this, Cleander, a blind prophet loyal to Commodus, presents Marcus with a poisoned apple. After the funeral, Livius, who does not share Lucilla's ambition for...
Pub. Date
c1945, 2022
Language
English
Description
One of the most renowned World War II films relates the timeless saga of the American G.I. as no other movie has before or since. The dilemma of the common soldier trudging to an unknown fate under a blazing Italian sun is captured by the different thoughts and personalities of a disparate group of men under arduous stress.
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Glenn Tyler is a moody and uneducated Shenendoah backwoods boy. Believing he has killed his brother in a family fight, Glenn flees home and is caught by the police and brought to trial. Placed in the custody of his uncle, he must learn to overcome frustration in order to build a new and responsible life.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frontier lawman Wyatt Earp joins his three brothers in their feud against the villainous Clanton gang, a local clan of cattle thieves in Tombstone, Arizona. When Earp defends the sickly gambler John 'Doc' Holliday and puts a stop to the Clanton's lawlessness, the ruthless outlaws seek revenge and murder one of Earp's brothers. This leads the men into the most devastating showdown in wild West history.
17) Queen bee
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A drama showing how a neurotic, insincere Southern woman brings unhappiness to her husband, family, and friends in an attempt to insure her own security and position of dominance.
19) Railroaded
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A detective attempts to clear his girlfriend's brother of a murder rap and find the real killer. In the process he uncovers the hidden workings of the city's seedy underworld.
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
Vengeance Valley: A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, and eventually the real son frames his stepbrother for fathering an illegitimate child that is actually his, seeing it as an opportunity to get his half-brother out of the way so he can have his father's empire all to himself.
Scandal sheet: The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid...
