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(0)Nicholas Meyer
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English
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"Essential reading for any Star Trek and movie fan."
-trekmovie.com
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn transplanted...
-trekmovie.com
When Nicholas Meyer was asked to direct the troubled second Star Trek film, he was something less than a true believer. A bestselling author and successful director, he had never been a fan of the TV series. But as he began to ponder the appeal of Kirk, Spock, et al., he realized that their story was a classical nautical adventure yarn transplanted...
Author
Language
English
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"In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life. With his international bestseller, The Seven Per Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes that reinvigorated the world's interest in the first consulting detective....
Author
Language
English
Description
"With the international bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by Dr. John H. Watson. Now Meyer returns with a shocking discovery--an unknown case drawn from a recently unearthed Watson journal. January 1905: Holmes and Watson are summoned by Holmes' brother Mycroft to undertake a clandestine investigation. An agent of the British Secret Service has been...
7) Black orchid
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1977
Physical Desc
310 p. : maps (on lining paper) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers when it comes up against Khan, a genetically enhanced conqueror of late 20th century Earth who has escaped his prison and has set his sights on capturing Project Genesis and destroying Kirk.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A striking tale of what could happen after a nuclear war. Families try to survive in rural Kansas as radiation slowly kills everything around them
10) The human stain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
11) Volunteers
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
12) Elegy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his state of 'emancipated manhood' thrown into tragic disarray. David is a renowned college professor whose life is turned inside out when he becomes involved in a passionate relationship with Consuela. Consuela is a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher. As their sexual relationship evolves, an incredible love story is born
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (685 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stark trek, the motion picture: a massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
Star trek II, the wrath of khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain Kirk's starfleet career enters...
14) Time after time
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
H.G. Wells travels to present-day San Francisco to catch Jack The Ripper.
15) Houdini
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Before David Blaine and David Copperfield, there was one man whose name was synonymous with being the master of illusion and escape - Harry Houdini. It follows the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin. The drama will chronicle the life of a man who can defy death through his stunts, his visions...
16) Fatal attraction
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him
17) The human stain
Publisher
Distributed by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk's Starfleet career enters a new chapter as a result of his most vengeful nemesis: Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically enhanced conqueror from the late 20th-century Earth.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Adapted from Nicholas Meyer's work, this film imagines what might have happened had Dr. Watson convinced Sherlock Holmes to seek a cure for his cocaine addiction from Dr. Sigmund Freud. The adventure begins when Holmes and Freud team up to solve a kidnapping mystery.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingon Empire to its knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach, but ironically, it is Kirk who is the first emissary to broker that peace, but Kirk and his crew are implicated in the brutal assassination of a Klingon diplomat, bringing both worlds to the brink of full-scale war.