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English
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"Thirty years ago, a teenage Vincent King was sent to prison. But now, he's served his sentence and is returning to his hometown. The hometown where his childhood best friend, Walk, is now the chief of police. The town where his childhood sweetheart, Star Radley, still lives. The same Star Radley whose sister he killed. Duchess, Star's daughter, is a self-proclaimed outlaw. She needs to be. Who else is going to take care of her and her five-year-old...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he's chased for years, he never expected he'd accidentally shoot a man digging ginseng. Worse yet, he's killed a Brewer, a family notorious for vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to...
3) Bunraku
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A mysterious drifter and a young Japanese warrior arrive in a town that has been terrorized by outrageous and virulent criminals. Each is obsessed with his separate mission, and both will be guided by the wisdom of The Bartender at the Horseless Horseman Saloon. The two eventually join forces to bring down the corrupt and contemptuous reign of an evil 'woodcutter' and his lady, a femme fatale with a secret past.
5) In the fade
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiancé, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
7) Hamlet
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Series
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
9) Desperado
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A mysterious guitar player seeks vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend --
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English
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
11) Aftermath
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash. Based on the airline accident that occurred in July of 2002 and on the events that took place 478 days later.
12) Tapioca
Publisher
Vanguard
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
Nuts, a destitute, homeless street vendor, has the ability to put a hex on those who need a powerful dose of social justice. Shot on the streets of Chicago and featuring a musical score by Ryan Cohan and cartoons by Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Higgins.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Super assassin John Wick has a fourteen million dollar price tag on his head after killing a member of the High Table, the shadowy international assassins' guild. Now excommunicado, and with an army of the world's most ruthless hit men and women on his trail, John must find a way to survive in this third chapter of the adrenaline-fuelled action series.
16) Country: a novel
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After twenty-five years of vicious conflict, the IRA and the British have agreed to an uneasy ceasefire as a first step towards lasting peace. But, faced with the prospect that decades of savage violence and loss have led only to smiles and handshakes, those on the ground in the border country question whether it really is time to pull back--or quite the opposite. When an IRA man's wife turns informer, he and his brother gather their comrades for...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four years after taking a bullet in the head at her own wedding, the bride emerges from a coma and decides it's time for payback ... with a vengeance. Having been gunned down by her former boss and his deadly squad of international assassins, it's a kill-or-be-killed fight. She didn't start this deadly series of events, but she is determined to finish the business.
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English
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In the Swedish hamlet of Hesjovallen, January 1960 nineteen people have been massacred. The only clue is a red ribbon found at the scene. Judge Birgitta Roslin's Andren grandparents, and an Andren family from Nevada are among the victims. She then discovers the nineteenth-century diary of an Andren ancestor, a gang master on the American transcontinental railway, that describes brutal treatment of Chinese slave workers.
19) Wanted
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing - that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
Después de diez años en prisión, Driver (Dwayne Johnson) se ha centrado en una cosa -- La caza de las personas responsables del brutal asesinato de su hermano. Ahora un hombre libre con un propósito aterrador, se establece para encontrar y matar a todos los de su lista. Pero sobre sus talones hay dos hombres que harán cualquier cosa para detenerlo -- un veterano policía (Billy Bob Thornton) y un sicario (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) que encuentran...
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