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Roger Murtaugh just turned 50. He is an aging family man and sensible veteran LAPD officer who is just trying to make it through the day unscathed. Martin Riggs is a suicidal loose cannon cop who doesn't care if he lives to see the end of the day. They are thrown together to solve a mystery murder of a banker's daughter.
Pub. Date
c2006
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Lethal weapon: Two Vietnam-vets-turned cops have only one thing in common : they both hate to work with partners, but when a routine murder investigation turns into a no holds barred war with an international heroin ring, their partnership becomes the key to survival.
Lethal weapon 2: Riggs and Murtaugh must guard a free-wheeling witness in a comedy of car chases, gun battles, under-water escapes, even the destruction of a chic hillside house.
Lethal...
7) Face/off
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Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The only other person who knows the bomb's location is Casor's...
8) Red sparrow
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to Sparrow School, a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
"J. Law's spy game feels genuinely unpredictable..."--Boston Globe.
"...it's a terrific vehicle for Jennifer Lawrence..."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"Elegantly tense and absorbing."--Variety.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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The average adult spends 50 to 70 percent of their day sitting. James A. Levine, the inventor of the treadmill desk, shows that today's chair-based world is having negative consequences on people's health and is a leading cause of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
In this hilarious volume, the Griffin family faces all-new dilemmas, including Brian's unintentional foray into directing porn, Stewie's rants on national TV, Meg's date with a nudist, and Lois's yuletide insanity. Meanwhile, Peter is surprised to discover Lois was once a groupie, and his son, Chris, is more "endowed" than he is.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This new TV series takes place immediately after the events of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. The series follows Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, and introduces us to some new characters, such as Ahsoka Tano, a female Jedi Knight, as well as characters we already know. This title has been repackaged.
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
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The gang returns for their most inappropriate adventures yet in Season 9 of "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia". Once again, Paddy's Pub is the spot for clever cruelty and tasteless tomfoolery as Dee and Charlie get roped into a pyramid scheme and Dennis reveals he has super-powered erections. Season 9 also features "The Gang Saves The Day," the show's historic 100th episode. While trying to "stop" a convenience store robbery, Frank hotdogs it, Charlie...
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Three movies on two discs."Big Business: Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin - the first ladies of laughter- star in this critically-acclaimed box office hit about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth. Forty years later their paths cross amid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan and the result is unrestrained pandemonium. New York's exclusive Plaza Hotel is the setting for a wildly hilarious, classic case of mistaken identities, split personalities...
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Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
In Hitler's Scientists, British historian John Cornwell explores German scientific genius in the first half of the twentieth century and shows how Germany's early lead in the new physics led to the discovery of atomic fission, which in turn led the way to the atom bomb, and how the ideas of Darwinism were hijacked to create the lethal doctrine of racial cleansing.
15) Fast & furious 6
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Following their successful Rio heist, Dom and his crew of professional criminals have retired around the world. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam has left their lives incomplete. Hobbs asks Dom and Brian to help him take down an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers. In return, their crew will receive full pardons and be allowed to return home.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Chuck is in luck. Intersect II is ready for the espionage service. That means that the old Intersect, a.k.a. Chuck, can go back to his old life. But if Chuck goes, he's going to be gone. Casey has orders to off him. Chuck survives to unravel mysteries of the past, become a hero in the present, and chop-and-drop himself into an even more perilous future.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates.--
Colorful and captivating, Weather: An Illustrated History hopscotches through 100 meteorological milestones and insights, from prehistory to today's headlines and tomorrow's...