Chiwetel Ejiofor
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 1
Language
English
Description
Two years ago Harvey Wratten, one of the UK's biggest crime lords, was imprisoned. His nephew and employee, Jay Wratten, had bought 200 kilos of heroin and made a mistake, which lead to their arrests. But after serving only 2 years they received a Royal Pardon. After only 4 hours of freedom Harvey Wratten is murdered. Detective Inspector Jonah Gabriel is assigned the case having just returned to work after being shot during an undercover operation....
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 4
Language
English
Description
Bede meets with Harris and tells him that he wants to do business. Jay Wratten goes to Bede to tell him that Bob Harris was responsible for Wratten's murder. Bede reiterates his desire to be out of the game after one last deal. Gabriel and his wife Laura are trying another round of IVF. Bede's beloved wife Julie's Alzheimer's is deteriorating. Journalist McGovern express his suspicions about illegal police activity to Sergeant Foley.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 3
Language
English
Description
Andy Dixon, scared and isolated, finally breaks cover and calls Sara which allows the police to put a trace on the call. A chase ensues through City Park, with Gabriel, Honey and Jay Wratten all trying to reach Andy. Andy panics and calls his mum - who calls Gatehouse. On Gatehouse's orders, Andy Dixon meets Jay Wratten and tells him that after picking up Wratten, he had driven him to meet someone at the car park where he was shot.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jonah Gabriel tracks down Penney on his sail boat. Penney reveals the truth about "Counterpoint". He tells him Gatehouse will now kill all the old players and start the game with new players. Gabriel tells Patterson he wants to prosecute Commissioner Khokar on the grounds of conspiracy to promote and profit from state controlled crime. Gabriel offers to provide the money for Beatty's sting on Bede and Barbur's deal.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 7
Language
English
Description
Sergeant Foley gives Beatty the opportunity to get the inside scoop on a new line, where Harvey Wratten left off, run by Joseph Bede. Alison returns from hiding with her and Gabriel's child. Gabriel has the house staked out and is furious to see her return, but she refuses to leave. With Glickman lying in wait in the child's bedroom, Gatehouse arrives and Gabriel remembers that it was Gatehouse who shot him.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 5
Language
English
Description
Petra, Glickman's girlfriend, visits Bede. He's never heard of her, but Glickman kept his world separate. She wants his help to find Glickman. Jay Wratten visits Glickman's son Leonard and asks if his father would like to keep his first grandchild safe... Gatehouse has bugged Leonard's office and listens as Leonard panic calls his wife, Frieda. Gatehouse goes to Leonard's house where he plays an evil game with Frieda and the baby.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 2
Language
English
Description
Julie and Joseph Bede meet with her doctor who delivers devastating news, that Julie's Alzheimer's is getting progressively worse and she has only six months to a year to live. Jonah Gabriel explains to the parents of his former partner, Delaney, how he has no recollection of the shooting that killed their son, or the circumstances that found them in that situation due to the bullet lodged in his brain.
Author
Series
Shadow Line volume 6
Language
English
Description
Joseph Bede and Petra Mayler meet at his flower factory. They both have no regrets about what happened between them. Gabriel and his wife Laura are at the hospital having a scan. He takes a call from Peter Glickman, who tells him to "follow the drugs". He does. Gabriel and Honey learn that Delaney had stolen coded drugs from the evidence room.
9) Red Dust
Author
Language
English
Description
Police officer Dirk Hendricks (Jamie Bartlett) files an amnesty application for Alex Mpondo (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a member of the South African Parliament who can't remember the torture he once endured as a captive political activist. South African-born attorney Sarah Barcant (Hilary Swank), meanwhile, returns to her homeland to represent Mpondo.
10) Salt
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1 videodisc (305 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctor Strange tampers with a risky forbidden spell that alters time and space and accidentally opens a gateway to the multiverse. Together with the Scarlet Witch and the unflappable Wong, Doctor Strange confronts countless dangers in strange and mysterious alternate realities to attempt to restore a single stable reality. As they travel through myriad different layers of the multiverse, they face down a new yet unsettlingly familiar adversary that...
14) Z for Zachariah
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three young people find themselves caught up in a love triangle after a disaster has wiped out most of civilization.
15) Inside man
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 185 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years ago a Tsunami ravaged the coast of Thailand and hundreds of thousands lost their lives. This story follows a group of people whose lives are irrevocably transformed in the aftermath including: a young couple searching for their child; a Thai survivor who loses his family and tries to prevent developers from seizing the land his village is built on; an Englishwoman whose husband and son are missing; an ambitious reporter; a relief worker;...
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel's greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy. Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo is forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie's last dance.
19) Why Shakespeare?
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Various famous and not so famous individuals state the effect that Shakespeare's works have had in their lives. A main video presentation accompanied by seventeen vignettes.
20) Four brothers
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, four estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. Defying police orders, the four begin turning their old Detroit neighborhood upside down searching for the person responsible for the brutal killing. Along the way, they discover they are bound by ties thicker than blood.