Tom Skerritt
Author
Language
English
Description
Based on the best-selling novel by David Guterson When retired heart surgeon Ben Givens learns that he has terminal cancer, he takes his beloved dog back to his boyhood home in Eastern Washington, determined to end his life on his own terms. Ben's journey, though, takes an unexpected turn, and soon becomes an adventure against which he pits himself with characteristic stoicism, wit, and determination.
3) Day of Days
Author
Language
English
Description
A reclusive, God-fearing 91-year-old man and a young Cuban refugee home-aid worker struggle to come to terms with their regrets, the unbearable pain of unacceptable loss, love and the most difficult and beautiful of human truths.
Author
Series
Death Valley Days volume 5
Language
English
Description
A young Roy Bean rides into 1850s San Diego to visit his brother. Bad blood quickly develops between him and a local man over the affections of a pretty girl, with Roy being jailed for wounding the man.
Author
Series
Death Valley Days volume 12
Language
English
Description
Cal and Sam share a mining claim, but Sam is a better writer than laborer. A set of circumstances prevent the friends from keeping control of their potential millions.
Author
Series
Death Valley Days volume 1
Language
English
Description
A recruit and his pet mule are the only hope for a besieged cavalry patrol.
Author
Series
Death Valley Days volume 9
Language
English
Description
A young Chinese man uses his ancient book to help a miner win money at roulette. Soon, greed takes over and brings unfortunate consequences for both men.
8) Up in smoke
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail.
11) Alien
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. Each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left.
12) Top gun
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.
13) Steel magnolias
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Six divas of the silver screen - Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis and Julia Roberts - come together as bosom buddies in this hilarious and heartwarming story of life, love and loss in a small Louisiana Parish. At the center of the group is Shelby Eatenton (Roberts), newly married and joyfully pregnant, despite the fact that her diabetes could make childbirth life-threatening. Terrified and angry at the possibility...
15) Lucky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
16) MASH
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospsital.
17) Tears of the sun
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
19) Contact
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An astronomer discovers a signal from another planet and is chosen to go into space on a new spaceship and find its source.
20) M*A*S*H
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Army surgeons Hawkeye Pierce, Duke, and Trapper John shake things up at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. They try to escape the horrors of war with humor and a martini or two, much to the chagrin of Major Frank Burns.
