Harris Yulin
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
No career in modern American letters is at once brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Muhammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, The Castle in the Forest offers what may be Mailer's consummate...
3) Omni loop
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A quantum physicist finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student, they team up to save her life and to unlock the mysteries of time travel
4) Training day
Language
English
Formats
Description
Training Day: Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
6) Loch Ness
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A skeptical American scientist attempts to solve the mystery of the Loch Ness monster. He ruffles the feathers of the locals, but an innkeeper named Laura, and her young daughter, open his eyes and his heart.
7) Multiplicity
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about a man who clones himself to save his marriage and then almost loses his wife to himself.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When failed Brooklyn writer Nathan Fisher visits his parents in Florida, he finds his father has had a stroke and his mother's Alzheimer's disease has worsened and he gets a crash course in love, loyalty, family, and forgiveness as he is called upon to deal with their decline.
11) The Hurricane
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
12) The Virginian
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Codes of honor, murderous greed, swift retribution, and a loner's impact on an untamed land. The greatest themes of Western movies ride with new vitality in this stirring and poignant saga of The Virginian."--Back of container.
13) Rush hour 2
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Detectives Carter and Lee team up to fight some more bad guys. This time the action takes place in Hong Kong and Detective Carter is the one that is in an unknown world.
14) Rush hour 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:first), infinifilm.
Language
English
Description
It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting plot between a L.A. crime boss and a Triad leader. A trip back to the U.S. may provide the answers about the bombing, the counterfeiting,...
15) Truman
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Television adaptation of Arthur Miller's play, set in a detention room in Vichy in 1942, where a number of Jews await interrogation before being sent to concentration camps. Issues of personal responsibility are explored through the character of an Austrian prince who has been guilty of silent complicity during the German occupation of France.
17) Bean: the movie
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bean is sent on a mission to California to escort the world famous painting of "Whistler's Mother" to its new home in the Grierson Gallery. What the gallery owner, one of the richest men in America, and his curator David Langley believe, is that Mr. Bean is Dr. Bean, a renowned art expert. In fact he is just a sleepy-headed, wildly eccentric museum guard. He is also the clumsiest, craziest, wackiest, wildest, most bizarre character they have ever...
18) Cutthroat Island
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Letterbox.
Language
English
Description
Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
19) Training day
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jake Hoyt, a fresh-faced rookie in the Los Angeles Police Department, gets a chance to join the elite narcotics squad headed up by 13-year veteran Detective Sergeant Alonzo Harris. Jake is to prove himself during a one-day ride-along. As the day wears on, it becomes increasingly clear that Detective Harris has blurred the line between right and wrong to an alarming degree, enforcing his own code of ethics and street justice. Eventually, Hoyt begins...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in with Lionel Sweeney. Sweeney is an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century. Diane's strange, new world unlocks her deepest secrets, awakens her remarkable artistic genius, and launches her path to becoming the artist she is meant to be.