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1) Airframe
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Language
English
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Following a series of plane crashes and passenger deaths a frenzied high pressure investigation is ordered with some surprising results.
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
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English
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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.
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English
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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.
7) 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.
8) 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.
13) 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?
14) 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.
16) Age of vice
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English
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Description
New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb, and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic action-packed story...
17) 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.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
�2015.
Language
English
Description
Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she's been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can't tell the real story-so they lie....
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