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"Tuesday, September 11, started off like any other day at Stuyvesant High School, located only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. The semester was just beginning, and the students, faculty, and staff were ready to start a new year. But within a few hours on that Tuesday morning, they would share an experience that would transform their lives--and the lives of all Americans. This powerful play, written by students of Stuyvesant High School...
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Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave, and debonair. Walter is not. But when events take an unexpected turn, this unlikely duo is forced to team up for the ultimate mission that will require an almost impossible disguise, transforming Lance into the brave, fierce, majestic pigeon. Walter and Lance suddenly have to work as a team, or the whole world is in peril.
3) Non-stop
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During a transatlantic flight from New York City to London, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks receives a series of cryptic text messages demanding that he instruct the government to transfer $150 million into an off-shore account. Until he secures the money, a passenger on his flight will be killed every twenty minutes.
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"Capitol policeman John Cale ... has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer. ... Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the WHite House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter and the country"--Container....
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"One year into his presidency, Tom Kirkman is starting to find his footing as Commander in Chief. With the help of his loyal staff, Kirkman navigates the daily flow of crises inside the West Wing. The terrorists who took down the Capitol are still at large and the President will stop at nothing to bring justice to the people they killed, even if means making personal sacrifices of his own"--Container.
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"Air travel is safest, the FAA says. But the FAA never figured the risk with Charles Rane on board. "The Rane of terror" has masterminded four terrorist attacks. Soon there will be a fifth, and that's bad news for passengers on flight 163. But there's good news too: the man in seat 57! John Cutter, an undercover security operative who enters the lavatory and exits to find Rane and his gang have taken over. Cutter's next move is clear. Do or be done...
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"Tom Kirkman [is] a low-level Cabinet member who is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack on the US Capitol during the State of the Union. In this dramatic thriller, Kirkman will struggle to keep the country and his own family from falling apart, while navigating the highly-volatile political arena and while leading the search to find who is responsible for the attack"--Container.
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Makoto Naegi survived one death game ... but does he have it in him for one more? Suspected of treason, he's taken in by the Future Foundation--a group founded to save the world from the Remnants of Despair--and is about to be put on trial when suddenly everything goes dark. Everyone wakes up, confused and distraught, with brand-new bangles and a familiar face on the screen. As Monokuma's grizzly grin greets them, they learn they're in for a whole...
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Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
10) Patriots Day
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"Based upon the dramatic real-life manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers, this powerful action-thriller follows Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders as he joins brave survivors, first responders, and investigators in a race against time to find the bombers before they strike again"--Container.
11) Fahrenheit 451
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In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a "price" though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...
12) Machete kills
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In his latest mission, Machete is recruited by the U.S. President to stop a crazed global terrorist who is planning to start a nuclear war. Meanwhile, Machete has a bounty on his head, and he faces death from a series of deadly assassins.
13) Bel Canto
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Famous opera singer Roxanne Coss becomes trapped in a hostage situation when she's invited to perform at a lavish party for a wealthy industrialist in South America. As a lengthy standoff ensues between a guerrilla rebel group and the authorities, hostages and captors form unexpected bonds as they overcome their differences to find their shared humanity.
15) The war within
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A would-be suicide bomber has a crisis of conscience after most of the other members of his cell are arrested.
16) Non-stop
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"During a transatlantic flight, U.S. Air Marshal Bill Marks ... receives a series of cryptic text messages threatening to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into an off-shore account"--Container.
18) Big game
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When Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him, a thirteen-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his family, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod.
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A group of heroic figures span the globe protecting democracy and freedom against terrorism. Learning that power hungry North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is out to destroy the world, the team recuits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover as a terrorist. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to slip into an arms dealer's hideout to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to stop the dictator's peace conference,...
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