Douglas Stewart
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"Loner Zack Mayo enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot, and in 13 torturous weeks, he learns the importance of discipline, love and friendship. Foley, the tough drill instructor teaches Zack that no man can make it alone. And while Foley tries to warn the young officer about the local girls who will do anything to catch themselves pilot husbands, Zack eventually learns to love one while his fellow candidate struggles with a very different...
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When filmy spores fall from space and take root in San Francisco, the city is beautifully transformed by spectacular and exotic flowers. But these lovely extraterrestrial blossoms have gruesome plans for their earthly admirers. These blossoms are going to slowly clone human bodies and then dispose of the originals.
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Jill Kinmont was paralyzed in a skiing accident while competing in an Olympic race. Jill returns to her childhood home where she fights off the memories of her ill-fated past and is reintroduced to the power of love by a sensitive trucker. Their unusual courtship and marriage is a true love story for everyone who believes in happy endings.
9) The shootist
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A terminally ill gunfighter seeks to retire quietly but is embroiled in one last battle.
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A gripping adventurous story of family love and devotion and of heroism and sacrifices made by the pioneers who tamed the Wild West. After the eldest daughter of a pioneer family is kidnapped by a mysterious Indian tribe, their eldest son risks his life to track her down and rescue her from the savage Indians. Along the way, the boy befriends and recruits a broken down, grizzly trapper to help him locate the unknown tribe and rescue his sister. In...
11) Seven Alone
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Spring, 1842. America's unclaimed and unexplored land drew thousands of settlers to the West, including the Sager family. Traveling with a wagon train across the frontier from Missouri to Oregon, both parents succumbed to the untamed wilderness - the father from an Indian attack and the mother from pneumonia. Led by their eldest son, John, the seven Sager children courageously continued the journey their parents began, throughout the wilderness, to...
13) The blue lagoon
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A small boy and girl and the ship's cook survive a shipwreck and wash up on a tropical island. When the cook dies, the children are left on their own to survive and grow to adulthood.
15) Jinxed!
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Bonita is a brassy casino lounge singer who lives in a trailer with a semi-professional gambler named Harold. Harold's dreams of striking it rich seem about to come true-- he's got a jinx on a sexy blackjack dealer. But the gambler's luck changes when Bonita and the dealer get together to play a few cards of their own!
16) Seven alone
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Story of the Sager family who left their Missouri home in 1843 for the "black soil" of Oregon. Disaster leaves the seven Sager children alone to fend for themselves and continue the journey. "Seven alone" is based on a true story.
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Where the red fern grows: A young Oklahoma boy uses his own savings to buy two hunting dogs, which he grows to love.
The legend of Wolf Mountain: Kerrie, Casey and John have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. First, they were sent home from school and then they were accidentally kidnapped by a pair of ex-cons!
The proud rebel: John Chandler is traveling the country with his son, David, and their sheep dog, Lance, in search of a doctor who...