Howard Koch
Author
Language
English
Description
Chiltern creates the most beautiful editions of the Worlds finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before: the tactile layers, fine details and beautiful colors of these remarkable covers make these books feel extra special and look striking on any shelf. This hardcover book has a matching blank lined journal (sold separately). They make a great gift when paired together but are also just as beautiful on their...
4) Ghost
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Think of the most touching love story you ever saw. Think, too, of the brightest comedy, the most astonishing supernatural tale and a sleek mystery-thriller. Did you come up with four separate films? Or are you among the millions of fans and critics who've discovered Ghost, the #1 film of 1990? Ghost will surprise you, delight you, make you believe. Patrick Swayze plays a ghost who teams up with a psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to uncover the truth behind...
6) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"This book examines the historic broadcast in-depth. Chapters also look at later broadcasts in the United States, Latin America, Brazil and Portugal, and address the likelihood that a similar panic could happen again. The original script of the 1938 The War of the Worlds radio broadcast, written by Howard Koch, is included"--Provided by publisher.
8) Casablanca
Language
English
Formats
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
9) Frequency
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
John discovers the ability to talk to his father. who's been dead for 30 years. His attempts to change the past go awry as they set in motion a string of brutal, unsolved murders. Now they're fighting to find a way to stop the crime that could destroy the future for both of them.
10) Ghost
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam and Molly are happy together and deeply in love. Walking back to their new apartment after a night out at the theatre, they encounter a thief in a dark alley. Sam is murdered and finds himself trapped as a ghost. He realises that his death was no accident. He must warn Molly about the danger that she is in. But as a ghost, Sam can not be seen or heard by the living, and so he tries to communicate with Molly through Oda Mae Brown, a psychic who...
Language
English
Description
Airport!: In a spoof of disaster films, an airplane is out of control and the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly.
Airport II: A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the Sun. Can Ted Striker save the day and get the shuttle back on track--again?
14) Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in World War II Morocco within a city filled with European refugees. A bitter nightclub owner helps his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Odessa Cotter, is a quiet, dignified woman who works as a housekeeper for Miriam Thompson. When Odessa honors the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott by walking an exhausting nine miles to and from work, Miriam offers her a ride. Defying both Miriam's racist husband, and the powerful White Citizen's Council, Miriam and Odessa put their lives in danger for civil rights.
16) Untraceable
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jennifer Marsh is an FBI secret service agent who gets caught up in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer. The killer knows that people are drawn to the curious and the dark side of things. They will log onto an 'untraceable' website where the killer conducts violent and painful murders live on the internet. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies.
17) Losing Isaiah
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.
18) Airplane!
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen DVD Collection.
Language
English
Description
The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in this spoof of disaster movies.
19) The Sea Hawk
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 803
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.