Joseph Sargent
Series
Lonesome Dove volume 3
Pub. Date
c2001, 1995
Description
This sequel to Lonesome Dove pits legendary Texas Ranger Woodrow Call against his deadliest adversary ever.
Description
The widowed Ellen Brody now finds herself reliving the horrors of the past when a mammoth shark kills her son. Grief-stricken, she travels to the Bahamas to be with her other son, a marine biologist, and his family. There she meets and falls for a carefree airplane pilot. But just as she is putting her life back together, the nightmare of the past returns when her granddaughter is attacked by an all-too-familiar Great White. Determined to end the...
4) Bojangles
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A look at the life of extraordinary tap dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. This is the story of an incredibly talented man who struggled with the demons of his past and the racism of his time, but still entertained millions with his unique and complex dance style.
5) Warm springs
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The inspiring true story about Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, who seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
"****...'Warm Springs' can proudly take its place with the best of HBO's biographies."--USA Today.
"Rich, inspiring and surprising."--Us Weekly.
6) The incident
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
"It is 1944, in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado, home to a U.S. Army Camp that houses several hundred German prisoners of war. Suddenly the town is thrown into shock when the popular physician George Hansen is mysteriously murdered. Judge Stoddard Bell calls in Harmon J. Cobb, a down-and-out attorney whose son is fighting in Europe, to defend Wilhelm Geiger, the German prisoner accused of committing the murder. The reluctant Harmon soon...
8) Abraham
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Abraham leaves the pagan land of Ur for the promised land of Canaan, after being promised by God that doing so will cause his descendents to become a great and numerous tribe.
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
10) MacArthur
Pub. Date
2001, c1977
Description
U.S. Army General Douglas MacArthur leads American forces to victory in the Pacific during World War II, then clashes with President Truman during the Korean War.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
When Margaret Ryder, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, grows up during the Great Depression, she alone is the link between Mama and Papa's silent world and the hearing world they do not fully understand...and it does not understand them. Her youth is spent sacrificing friendships and romance as she struggles to keep her parents' deafness a secret from everyone who knows her. Torn between the responsibility she feels for her parents and her own...
14) Out of the ashes
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Perl spent WWII in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz. Hoping to leave her nightmares behind her after the liberation, she applies for American citizenship in 1946. However, she is hauled into military court to explain how much she "collaborated" with the Nazis during the war. The U.S. officials are especially disturbed by the number of illegal abortions Perl performed at the camp. Perl struggles to explain how she terminated the lives of...
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Lonesome Dove (widescreen, 1989, 374 min.): A pair of longtime friends and former Texas Rangers crave one last adventure before hanging up their spurs. After stealing over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border, they recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to the grasslands of Montana.
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993, 346 min.): This gripping adventure follows three ex-Texas Rangers and chronicles...