Rosamund Pike
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women who knew him. Laura is the troubled one-night-stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is his grief-stricken aunt, already mourning the recent death of yet another family member. And Miriam is the nosy neighbor clearly keeping secrets from the police. Three women with separate connections to the victim. Three women who are, for different...
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
Series
James Bond volume 20
Language
English
Description
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing the job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
4) Jack Reacher
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy with a skill for violence and a secret to keep.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I am Eva Delectorskaya," Sally Gilmartin announces, and so on a warm summer afternoon in 1976 her daughter, Ruth, learns that everything she ever knew about her mother was a carefully constructed lie. Sally Gilmartin is a respectable English widow living in picturesque Cotswold village; Eva Delectorskaya was a rigorously trained World War II spy, a woman who carried fake passports and retreated to secret safe houses, a woman taught to lie and deceive,...
6) Hostiles
Publisher
Entertainment Studios
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
"Westerns can be a tough nut to crack, but Hostiles may be the finest example of the genre since Unforgiven."--Entertainment Weekly.
"A mournful, sorrowful, persistently powerful Western set in a world of beauty, tears and blood."--Hollywood Reporter.
9) Gone girl
Publisher
20th Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
10) The Big Year
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Looking to shake up their routine lives, three amateur bird watchers compete to become the ultimate 'birder' by spotting the greatest number of species within a single calendar year. But the friendly rivalry soon turns into a hilariously complicated cross-country adventure as each man begins to realize that the quest for success comes at a price, and that's not chicken feed!
12) Beirut
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Set during the time of the Lebanese Civil War, tells the story of a former American diplomat who returns to Beirut to rescue his friend who was taken hostage by a terrorist group.
13) The world's end
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on doing it again. They are convinced by mate Gary King, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown to once again attempt to reach the fabled pub called The World's End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not just theirs but humankind's. Reaching the pub is the least...
14) A united kingdom
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. Since their engagement came just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance triumphed over every obstacle and changed the course of African history.
15) A long way down
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Four strangers happen to meet on a roof of a building with the intent of committing suicide. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.
16) Fracture
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In his latest mission, Johnny English must stop a group of international assassins before they eliminate a world leader and cause global chaos. With just one shot at redemption, he will use (or misuse) the latest high-tech gadgets and every trick in his playbook to protect us all.
18) Return to sender
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this intense thriller, a small town nurse gets attacked during a home invasion by a mysterious criminal. Following his arrest, she starts to regularly visit him in jail and befriends him, against her father's advice.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
By all appearances, Hector has it all. A successful psychiatry practice, a comfortable home, and a beautiful, loving girlfriend. However, he's frustrated that he can't provide his patients with real happiness. So, he decides to travel the world in search of the elusive emotion.
20) Beirut
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives (Rosamund Pike, Dean Norris) must send a former U.S. diplomat (Jon Hamm) to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.