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2) Airframe
Author
Language
English
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Description
Following a series of plane crashes and passenger deaths a frenzied high pressure investigation is ordered with some surprising results.
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Language
English
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Description
British newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year living in Kenya, where photojournalist Margaret begins to realize how little she knows about her husband, but when the couple is invited on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, tragedy strikes and scars their marriage forever.
6) Unbreakable
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor of terrible train wreck, David Dunn, a security guard, is contacted by Elijah Price, a mysterious stranger who tries to convince David that he has a special gift.
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Language
English
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Description
When an acclaimed writer and college professor is killed in a hit-and-run accident, speculations about his unwritten final novel run rampant in the intellectual community, prompting his literary executor to begin a search through the professor's personal records.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
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English
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Draws from the recollections of climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev and other survivors to tell the story of the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest which occurred on May 10, 1996, when twenty-three climbers from two commercial expeditions were caught in a killing storm while attempting to reach their high-altitude base camp.
12) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1995
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the Apollo 13 mission to the moon in 1970, a routine space flight that became the focus of international attention after an explosion crippled the spacecraft and put the lives of three astronauts in grave danger.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
16) The raft
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Robie lives with her family on the Midway Atoll, a group of islands in the Pacific. After visiting her aunt on Hawaii, she catches a return cargo flight at the last minute. The plane hits nasty weather and goes down. Max, the only other survivor pulls her onto a raft and the real terror begins. How long can they survive?
17) Rails & ties
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[c2008]
Language
English
Description
Making a desperate, split-second decision, railroad engineer Tom Stark allows his train to crash into a car parked on the tracks. The young boy whose mother was killed in the accident soon develops an unusual bond with Tom.
19) Black water
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
The story of a girl and an older man at a Fourth of July party that ends in tragedy.
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Language
English
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Description
In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at how mothers and daughters with the best intentions can be blind to the harm they do to one another.
Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy, the effects of which...
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