Michael Allan
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Series
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English
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"Co-Winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association" Michael Allan is assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Oregon.
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling. Michael Allan challenges this way of thinking and argues instead that the disciplinary framework of world literature,...
2) Sidetracked
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English
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Relive once more the action packed, shoot em up western in the tradition of Zane Grey. Ride with Marshal Woodrow Kinslow as he brings an embittered Colorado landowner to justice. An accident claims the life of a young son of a Colorado rancher, Johnathan Birk. Although, he reluctantly agreed to let homesteaders onto land that he claimed for his own, the death of his son sends h21ston a vengeful crusade to rid the valley of all the homesteaders. Marshall...
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English
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Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #23. Lots of good stuff this time-highlighted by a novel from Golden Age mystery author Rufus King, Duenna for a Murder. Plus a few novellas, and lots of great short stories, a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles, and great selections from Michael Bracken (Laird Long's "Taken for a Ride"-which qualifies as both a mysery and a fantasy story) and Barb Goffman (Michael Allan Mallory's "Random Harvest").
On the science...
4) Death Roll
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Series
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English
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Who would want the director of the Minnesota Valley Zoo dead? Everyone! Anthony Wright made a career of getting what he wanted, whatever the price. When he's murdered and ends up as a late night snack for the zoo's fifteen- foot crocodile, few are shedding any tears.
Publisher
Trimark Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
After battling on the streets in cities from coast-to-coast, vigiliante Paul Kersey has moved back to New York. When his beautiful fiancee Olivia is killed and her daughter is kidnapped by a king pin of the underworld, Kersey finds himself back in the war. Kersey's plan to live anonymously is shattered when he learns that his fiancee was the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, Tommy O'Sheay. One by one Kersey hunts down the criminals,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Set in post-apocalyptic Seattle in the year 2019. Max Guevara is a young genetically created woman and part of a top-secret government elite military squad, who is living life as a bicycle messenger/fugitive in the ruins of Seattle. She is hiding from her former commanding officer, Lydecker who is looking to bring her back to his fold. Max meets and turns to Logan Cale, a crippled computer specialist/left-wing rebel who runs a pirated TV system, who...
Publisher
CBS Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
�2017
Language
English
Description
Captain Jonathan Archer pilots the Earth's first warp-5 capable ship, Enterprise NC-01, on a long-range mission of research and discovery beginning in the year 2150. During his command Captain Archer and his crew will face life-threatening challenges from the Xindi, an enemy bent on annihilating humanity via a planet-destroying super weapon, and from Terra Prime, a human terrorist group as well as a host of problems stirred up by the ever present...
13) 21
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T., who wants to attend the Harvard School of Medicine, but can't afford the $300,000 for tuition. Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor Micky Rosa. The club has four other students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy, who are being trained by Micky in the skill of blackjack card counting. Although initially reluctant, Ben joins the club and travels with his new...
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Viavision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Smart, conflicted and unconventional, Dr. Jordan Cavanaugh is a forensic pathologist whose obsession for solving homicides goes beyond the autopsy table. But the driving force behind her hard-core, unorthodox investigative style is the one crime she hasn't been able to solve, her mother's murder. - Back cover
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2007], c2007
Language
English
Description
The collection features eight classic Elvis Presley films: King Creole: Set in New Orleans, Elvis is a singing bus boy in a nightclub. G.I. blues: Elvis plays an Oklahoma singer who wants to open a club when he gets out of the army. Blue Hawaii: Elvis plays an ex-GI returning home to Hawaii. Roustabout: Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle. Girls, girls, girls!: Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor...