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Author
Series
Inspector Trave and Detective Clayton mysteries volume Prequel
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A tale set in 1940 London marks the beginning of Detective Bill Trave's career and follows his investigation into an MI6 former chief's murder, which is linked to an assassination plot against Churchill.
Publisher
[Binge Box]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Death proof: A stuntman takes to the roads, stalking victims from his car.
Inglourious basterds: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by Lt. Aldo Raine, known as "The Basterds," are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.
Once upon a time in... Hollywood: In 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, TV star Rick Dalton and his longtime stunt double...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in her suite when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry would have sliced her to ribbons....
Author
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"America is at a crossroads. Secession is spreading. And the nation s newly elected president is the target of a conspiracy to assassinate him and trigger a Civil War. The safety of Lincoln and his family and the future of the American experiment hinges on the success of a new kind of lawman, known by a word still novel in the culture of the time: detective. But there was only one who would prove to be up to the task an individual whose extraordinary...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the Nazis at the theater's movie premier, including Adolph Hitler....
Author
Language
English
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Description
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring -- and surviving -- an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the power of words to make sense of the unthinkable. Knife...
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