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Denholm Elliott
Series
Indiana Jones volume 3
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Indy's Nazi enemies are back and have kidnapped his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. to get help in their search for the Holy Grail. Following a trail from America to Venice to the deserts of the Middle East, it's up to Indy to save his father, save the Grail and save the day.
Series
Indiana Jones volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008.]
Description
An unconventional archaeologist is assigned by the U.S. government to find the mystically empowered Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can obtain it for their own evil use.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Description
The rich and greedy Duke Brothers wager a bet on whether a born loser like Billy Ray Valentine, a hustler from the ghetto, can become as successful as Winthorpe, a wealthy investment executive, if put in the proper environment--and if a prig like Winthorpe were to lose all, would he turn to a life of crime? The Dukes arrange for that to happen. Valentine becomes the golden boy of the commodities market and Winthorpe finds himself out in the streets....
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In this delicious comedy, set in a little-known Yorkshire town during the thin times of 1947, plans are afoot to fatten a contraband pig destined for the centerpiece of a celebration banquet. However, chaos ensues when a social climbing middle-class couple steal the pig to impress their friends at their own banquet.
5) Scoop
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Mistaken for a foreign correspondent, a mild-mannered wildlife writer is sent to a fictional African country on the eve of a war. He flounders through a sea of wild rumors and sleazy journalists desperate for a story.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Nestled among the rolling hills and peaceful meadows of England lives a community of rabbits. When their warren is threatened, a small goup of brave rabbits escapes into the unknown countryside seeking a new home. Led by the visionary Fiver, they face huge challenges and use strength and cunning to survive, while gaining new allies, battling new enemies and always pursuing their dream.
7) King Rat
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In Singapore's Changi Gaol during WWII, Corporal King, a thoroughly unscrupulous and opportunistic American POW, makes shabby deals with the camp guards in order to make his confinement more comfortable. King delights in rising above his military rank and social class as he uses his streetwise tactics to "rule" over his fellow Allied prisoners and his Japanese captors
8) Cuba
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A British mercenary in Cuba is unable to ignore the corruption and brutality of the Batista regime when they want to hire him in putting down a brewing revolution.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Appears on list
Description
Raiders of the Lost Ark: Indiana Jones battles fierce Nazis in hopes of stopping them from using the power of the lost Ark of the Covenant.
Temple of Doom: After barely escaping a Shanghai nightclub brawl, the daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones, his twelve-year old sidekick Short Round, and nightclub singer Willie Scott go from high-flying action above the Himalayas to a nail-biting runaway mine car chase and finally a spine-tingling escape from...
Pub. Date
p2000
Description
Lucy Honeychurch, like all proper young British ladies during the Edwardian Era, is compelled to tour Europe in the company of an older chaperone--in this instance, her spinster cousin Charlotte Bartlett. While in Italy, the ladies make the acquaintance of a wide variety of personalities; the most fascinating of their fellow tourists--at least in Lucy's eyes--is free-spirited George Emerson. Aware that her cousin is becoming too familiar with Emerson,...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Beginning with a prologue in which a young Indiana Jones is introduced, the epic continues with the adult Indy embarking on a perilous quest for his father, Professor Henry Jones, Sr. The Nazis are on the trail of the Holy Grail, and have kidnapped the professor, who is an authority on the Cup of Christ. Indy inches through rat-filled catacombs, battles Nazis in biplane dogfights, and braves the firepower of unstoppable tanks.
13) Bleak House
Series
Description
Tale of a long extended legal case and the havoc it wrecks in lives over various generations.
14) Maurice
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
E.M. Forster's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In Raiders of the lost ark, archaeologist-cum-soldier of fortune, Indiana Jones gets pitted against Nazis hoping to locate and seize the Biblical Ark of the Covenant -- an artifact of immeasurable value and the reputed source of unlimited power.
In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, after barely escaping a raging Shanghai nightclub brawl, Indy crash-lands into the wilds of India where he uncovers a sinister scheme that has enslaved a remote village's...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Two partners discover their real feelings for one another when one is bitten by a poisonous snake; A young boy witnesses an escaped mental patient and can't tell anyone about it; It's hard to tell who's the bigger cheater when a wife and her husband's jealous mistress sit down for some lethal negotiating; When two old men need a miracle in order to keep their home the answer arrives in the form of a killer on the run from the law; A young woman with...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Adventures of a teenage dragonslayer: Branded as a "nerd" and harassed by school bully, 12-year-old Arthur is rescued by a magical troll who knows that the boy unwittingly holds the secret to defeat an evil dragon.
Gulliver's travels: Helped and hampered by the excitable town crier Gabby, shipwrecked Gulliver comes to terms with living in Lilliput where the people are no bigger than his thumb.
Alice of Wonderland in Paris: After her adventures in...
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