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Series
Franchise collection volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Francis the talking mule: A talking mule adopts a second lieutenant as his master in the Burmese jungle during World War II.
Francis goes to the races: Peter and Francis go to stay on a horsebreeding ranch. Peter is smitten by the owner's granddaughter, and Francis enjoys the easy life. But a debt has come due that threatens the ranch, and Francis uses connections with his equine friends to come up with some winners.
Francis goes to West Point:...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Apple Dumpling Gang: Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
Apple Dumpling Gang rides again: Amos and Theodore are back and trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry.
Hot lead & cold feet: A tough father is out to take control of a small western town with the help of his twin sons: one a gunfighter, the other a mild-mannered coward.
Gus: The California Atoms are in...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Tommy Braxton's father goes to war and never returns, forcing Tommy to become the man of the house and help support his mom and sister. Tommy makes a friend and finds a way to save his family's farm when he meets Jackie-A, a talking mule. Tommy and Jackie-A triumph in a race over the older bullies and their horses at the county stock show.
4) Gus
Series
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Description
A mule who kicks 100-yard field goals becomes the star player of a pro football team.
5) The Mule
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement, or the cartel's...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A former Confederate soldier still haunted by his past, Cullen Bohannon made a home in Hell on Wheels hunting down the men responsible for killing his family. Following the Indian attack that destroyed the railroad settlement, Cullen spends a long winter reshaping his lust for revenge into a burning ambition, to take control of the Union Pacific and drive it across the country.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A satirical, comedic drama, based on the occasional historical fact, about the rise of Catherine the Great. An idealistic romantic young girl, she arrives from Prussia for an arranged marriage to the mercurial Emperor Peter hoping for love and sunshine and finds instead a dangerous, depraved, backward world that she resolves to change. All she has to do is kill her husband, beat the church, baffle the military, and get the court on her side.
Series
Pub. Date
1969.
Description
Clint Eastwood is a 19th century adventurer who rescues Shirley MacLaine, a nun, from a group of would-be rapists. The nun decides to tag along with Eastwood who's joining a band of Mexican revolutionaries fighting against the French occupation of Mexico. On his way to overtaking the enemy's garrison, a romance develops and he discovers the nun is really a prostitute!
13) The mule
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Description
Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel.
14) 25th hour
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Monty Brogan is facing a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
17) Cold souls
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. An actor named Paul Giamatti agonizes over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya.' Paralyzed with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Paul enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. Complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule borrows...
18) Summer of Sam
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
In the summer of 1977 in New York City, a man called the Son of Sam commits numerous murders. As friends in a small Italian neighborhood become obsessed with the idea that the Son of Sam is someone nearby, the madman's plague of terror becomes the catalyst that prompts relationships to fall apart and trust to disintegrate into dread.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
August 1944. Follows four black soldiers of the all-black 92nd Infantry Division who get trapped near the small Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on the Gothic Line during the Italian Campaign of World War II. One of the men will risk his life to save an Italian boy who lives in the city where the Waffen-SS have massacred most of the citizens of the town in retaliation for Italian partisan activity. A sculpted head from the Ponte Santa Trinita...
Author
Series
The Brinkman adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"The Brinkman family returns for another exciting season of missionary stories and family adventures. From dangerous terrorists and a Taliban jail to threatening wolves and hypothermia, new challenges push out characters to the limit of endurance and force them to face their deepest fears. Travel the globe from Ecuador to Kashmir and from Africa to Alaska as you listen to these amazing stories and discover God's wonderful truths!"--Back of container....