Bronson Pinchot
281) The wager
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
Author
Language
English
Description
This anthology of unabridged short stories represents some of the most significant works from the most influential American authors of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Included are Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, Mermaids by Louisa May Alcott, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is a masterful compendium of new and classic stories, flash fiction, essays, and poems from the giants of speculative fiction, including R. L. Stine, Laurell K. Hamilton, Ray Bradbury, H. P. Lovecraft, Tennessee Williams, and Isaac Asimov. Marking a century of uniquely peculiar storytelling, each part of this anthology features a different genre from...
Author
Language
English
Description
The staff at the Hotel Gabrielli in Venice, Italy, is eager to please. However, one quirky bellboy is a little too eager, and when entrusted with distributing itinerary envelopes for three guests whose names all sound alike, he inadvertently turns the world upside down for Messrs. Orton, Lawton and Horton. Calamity prevails when the trio--a mafia hit man, a clumsy real estate scout, and a small-town mayor-turned-lothario--each find themselves traveling...
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Explore a little-known moment in math and natural history, and find out how Thomas Jefferson was able to prove through numbers that America was a nation worthy of investment. "A comical true tale of a Founding Father using science to defeat ignorance"--Container.
286) Napoleon
Author
Language
English
Description
A family adventure which tells the tale of a golden retriever puppy on a journey across the Australian outback in search of home.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The stand: The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying deaths begin, but within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive after a deadly virus escapes from a California research lab. The shattered remnants of humanity face the end of civilization and the beginning of the ultimate battle between good and evil.
The Langoliers: On a flight from LA to Boston 10 passengers awake from a nap to find that...
288) Jury Duty
Author
Language
English
Description
Courtroom antics surround the jury hearing an embezzlement case. A shy accountant is charged with the crime, but testimony by an overwhelmingly sexual secretary paints him as an extravagant lothario, garnering controversial press coverage and the sudden adoration of random women in the street. This prompts the judge to sequester the jury, trapping them and throwing them into disarray.
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
p2019.
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling Extinction Cycle series by Nicholas Sansbury Smith first introduced readers to a world ravaged by an engineered virus that turned men into monsters. Billions died, civilization collapsed, and the human race teetered on the brink of extinction. Humanity's only hope was not a cure, but another bioweapon. When deployed it killed ninety percent of the infected, but the remaining ten percent transformed into even more terrifying creatures...
Author
Series
3rd Rock From the Sun volume 9
Language
English
Description
Dick confides in Dr. Albright that he and Sally can't seem to stop fighting, and Mary tells him it's the same with her younger brother Roy. But when Dick meets Roy, he immediately likes him and invites him to dinner with the Solomon family. During dinner, much to Mary's embarrassment and the Solomons' alarm, Roy tells a story about being abducted from a cornfield by an alien spacecraft.
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From the depths of the oceans to the far reaches of space, across the land they rise. Be they mankind's ultimate defenders or final punishment, Kaiju roam free, trailing naught but destructio in their wake. Contained within this anthology (just barely) are 23 larger-than-life stories from New York Times bestselling authors and indie rock stars, exploring and celebrating strange creatures in the tradition of Godzilla, Gamera, King Kong, and Cloverfield....
