John Wray
1) Godsend
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English
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"Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," Whiting Award winner John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to exchange identity, home, and to become an Islamist militant"--
2) Lowboy
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English
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Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-year-old paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it. Unknown to his doctors, unknown to the police-unknown even to Violet Heller, his devoted mother, Will alone holds the key to the planet's salvation. To cool down the world,...
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"A story of young friendship, musical obsession, and a missing person, set in the metal scene of the late eighties and early nineties"--
Kip, Leslie, and Kira are outliers--even in the metal scene they love. In arch-conservative Gulf Coast Florida in the late 1980s, just listening to metal can get you arrested, but for the three of them the risk is well worth it, because metal is what leads them to one another. Different as they are, Kip, Leslie,...
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A group of young German schoolboys voluntarily enlist in the army at the beginning of World War 1 but after experiencing weeks of brutal training and unimaginable brutality of life on the front, their enthusiasm wanes and any preconceptions about "the enemy" and the "rights and wrongs" of the conflict disappear.
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Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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A prohibition gangster rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion and the detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques to bring him to justice.
12) Doctor X
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Doctor X: "An eminent scientist aims to solve a murder spree by recreating the crimes in a lab."--Container.
The return of Doctor X: "New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human...