Leslie Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A candid memoir filled with anecdotes: growing up in the South, navigating stand-up comedy's challenging early days, brushes with celebrities like Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and insights on Ghostbusters, Supermarket Sweep, The Daily Show. Jones also discusses the challenges of being a tall Black woman in comedy.
2) Night Hush
Author
Series
Duty and honor novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gripping and action-packed debut, an Army Intelligence officer and a Delta Force soldier must race against the clock to stop a catastrophic terrorist attack …
When Army Intelligence officer Heather Langstrom's military convoy is ambushed and she's taken prisoner, she knows she'll need all her strength and courage to survive, escape her captors, and report the whispers of unrest brewing in the Middle East.
Delta Force Captain Jace Reed...
3) Deep Cover
Author
Series
Duty and honor novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The next action-packed thriller from the author of Night Hush and Bait…
On a secret assignment for MI-5, British SAS soldier Trevor Carswell is deep undercover with The Philosophy of Bedlam, a home-grown anarchist group responsible for several museum bombings. He's on the brink of unearthing their motives when Scotland Yard foils their latest attack. Desperate to escape, the Bedlamites take civilian hostages-among them, a woman Trevor never...
4) Bait
Author
Series
Duty and honor novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the next thrilling Duty & Honor novel, a female CIA agent and a Delta Force soldier must catch a deadly assassin… but do they know where the danger truly lies?
After several assassination attempts on an allied royal, the CIA sends in operative Christina Madison-who bears a striking resemblance to the monarch-to pose as the famous princess and draw out her would-be killer.
When Delta Force Lieutenant Gabriel Morgan's team is assigned to Christina's...
5) Framed
Author
Series
Duty and honor novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
The next action-packed thriller from the author of Night Hush, Bait, and Deep Cover…
When former hacker turned FBI cybersecurity specialist Hadley "Lark" Larkspur is asked to analyze a piece of malware, she never imagines the simple task will put her on the radar of underworld criminals. After armed gunmen try to abduct her outside a nightclub, though, it's suddenly clear she's in way over her head.
Delta Force operator Thomas "Mace" Beckett...
7) Ghostbusters
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.
Series
Criterion collection volume 536
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the Pacific. Based on James Jones' novel, this is the story of Charlie Company's landing and battle experience there in 1942. The story concentrates on how the battle affects, and is effected by, Commanding officer Lt. Col. Gordon Tall, Captain James Staros, Sgt. Edward Welsh, and two privates, Witt and Bell. Charlie Company is attacking a...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction puts their religious convictions to the test, and also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship...
12) Rollers
Author
Language
English
Description
Rufus Paisley is a closet alcoholic with only one thing left to live for, Rollers. Now the historic venue is in trouble and he's running out of ways to save it and himself. His friends urge him to move on, but can he?
