Joe Don Baker
1) Joysticks
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Description
When a successful businessman (Joe Don Baker) decides to shut down the local video emporium, a group of dedicated gamers battle to save the arcade.
2) Mud
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
4) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
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Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
5) Cape Fear
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach...
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Ben Hamper vowed never to be an autoworker. Life had other plans. In the 1970s and '80s, the General Motors assembly plant in Flint, Michigan provided steady work for the town's citizens. But at what cost? The man the Detroit Free Press calls "a blue-collar Tom Wolfe" delivers a full-barreled blast of truth and gritty reality in Rivethead, a no-holds-barred journey through the belly of the American industrial beast. With the perspective of the blue-collar...
7) Congo
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke and his sidekick Fred Wolf host an ailing wildlife television show called Strange Wilderness. The program is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter devises an incredible scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot.
Series
James Bond volume 16
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
As Bond works to rescue an abducted Russian officer who had defected to the West, he must unravel a complex weapons scheme.
12) The grass harp
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A teenaged boy is sent to live with his aunts in a small Southern town in the 1930's.
13) Congo
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
14) Charley Varrick
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the mob and makes a desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
15) Mud
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
16) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favour. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
18) GoldenEye
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
"When an MI6 agen turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-born weapon, Bond must pusue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale who will stop at nothing to put the 'squeeze' on the intrepid spy!"--Container.
Series
Bond 50 volume disc 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
As Bond works to rescue an abducted Russian officer who had defected to the West, he must unravel a complex weapons scheme.