Frank Martin (Jason Statham) is the best at what he does -- transporting dangerous or illegal goods with no questions asked. But his latest shipment, a beautiful young woman kidnapped by slave traders, brings deadly complications to his delivery plans. Frank must kick into overdr...
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"Certain tales stick in our memories and remain timeless as the years march on-and they shine like never before in this compilation from Reader's Digest. Our editors have carefully selected narratives readers have adored throughout the past century; humorous slices of life in dec...
"Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white--for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized...
In the old West of 1870, the Cavalry, renegade soldiers and the Apaches struggle for possession of the Gatling gun, a gun that changed history.
A photographer recording the loading of secret cargo is murdered on the docks of Shanghai. The U.S. Navy tracks a Chinese ship rumoured to be carrying chemicals bound for Iraq. Agents are dispatched to learn the truth and avert war.
A runaway heiress hooks up with a struggling pilot for a wild cross-country ride in his cargo plane with a group of wacky passengers.
Still reeling from the disappearance of his lover Claire, brilliant code-breaker Tom Jericho is summoned to Bletchley Park, Britain's top-secret intelligence campus. Now he must face his toughest assignment--crack the Nazis' infamous Enigma codes. Putting together the pieces of a...
After being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
"Captured in the last year of the Civil War, Lucas Cain becomes a POW in the infamous Andersonville prison. There he learns how to survive the cruelty of the Confederate guards, and the perfidy of a few who are prisoners themselves. When the war ends, Lucas and over 2,000 others ...
"Rand; his friends Mat, Perrin, and Egwene; the Aes Sedai Moiraine and her Warder, Lan Mandragoran; Thom the gleeman and Nynaeve, the village Wisdom, split into three groups while trying to escape the ancient, dead city of Shadar Logoth, where they are pursued by the deadly Masha...
For as long as he could remember, Henry Hill wanted to be a gangster. So, when he was 12 years old, he started running errands for the neighborhood wiseguy and extortionist, "Paulie" Cicero. By the time he was 21, Henry had made a name for himself and had a good life by stealing ...
"Bold and exciting, this graphic tale of mutiny on the high seas tells the true story of the Robert Bowne Rebellion of 1852-in which indentured Chinese men overthrew their captor and slave trader the American businessman Captain Leslie Bryson. This stand against American capitali...
When their cargo plane crashes in the Sahara, the passengers must overcome their hostilities as well as those of the desert before they can be saved.
An all-new, heartwarming holiday adventure where the hilarious canine speaks for the first time! When Henry the elf flees the North Pole with Santa's sleigh and his magical bag of toys, he crash-lands the precious cargo in a suburban neighborhood tree. But when the bag ends up in...
In the Canadian Arctic, on a remote island, the wreckage of a Soviet World War II plane loaded with anthrax is discovered. American, Russian and mercenary teams rush to recover the load, but only the Russians know that an even more deadly cargo is buried within the plane's cargo ...
A hitman named Jack takes an assignment to deliver a mysterious bag to his crafty boss with strict instructions not to peek inside. With the help of an elusive prostitute, Jack battles a mess-load of gunfire, a slew of crooked cops, and unruly mobsters on a deadly quest to delive...
BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF : Greek-American father and son sponge diving entrepreneurs, Mike and Tony Petrakis, find themselves in plenty of scrapes over fishing territority with the Rhys' -- a rival family of English descended hook-boat fishermen who are prepared to resort to viol...
Marshal Seth Benteen's problems begin when he discovers a broken-wheeled wagon, carrying a secret cargo of gold. There would be trouble in Jewel Creek if the whole town knew what he'd found. The secret organization, Freedom Brotherhood, is suspected of being involved, and Benteen...
Beneath the 12-mile reef : Greek-American father and son sponge diving entrepreneurs, Mike and Tony Petrakis find themselves in plenty of scrapes over fishing territory with the Rhys' - a rival family of English descended hook-boat fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence...
In 2009, a team of marine archaeologists carrying out a sonar survey of the seabed around the remote Italian island of Ventotene made an astonishing discovery. The wrecks of five ancient Roman ships were found in pristine condition, each one fully laden with exotic goods. Remarka...