Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, read by William Hurt
Narrator: Christopher Hurt Run Time: 5hr 8min 56sec The system was simple, books were for burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires instead of putting them out. His life changes when he secretly keeps a book and becomes a fugitive tracked by a robotic killer dog.
The Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-46 is one of the most important turning points in British history–in terms of national crisis every bit the equal of 1066 and 1940. The tale of Charles Edward Stuart, "Bonnie Prince Charlie," and his heroic attempt to regain his grandfather's (James II) crown–remains the stuff of legend: the hunted fugitive, Flora MacDonald, and the dramatic escape over the sea to the Isle of Skye. But the full story–the real history–is even more dramatic, captivating, and revelatory.
One night a man kills Dr Richard Kimble's wife. It was a man with one arm, but the police believe it was Kimble who murdered her. He escapes from the police and goes searching for his wife's killer. But Detective Gerard is looking for Kimble too and wants him dead or alive ...The Fugitive is a big Hollywood film starring Ha rrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones. J M Dillard has written several books from smash-hit movies.
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Donald E. Westlake's great comic suspense novel, won MWA's Edgar Award in 1967. Con men descend upon its gullible hero when he comes into a $317,000 inheritance but Fred Fitch, as lovable as he is naïve, stumbles to victory. Westlake's earlier novel THE FUGITIVE PIGEON virtually originated the modern comic-suspense genre so brilliantly refined in this later work.
Sara had been torn from Earth by a nameless black force and taken to Lothar where she was forced to care for a strange man, who she discovered was the Regent. She escaped in panic, and become a fugitive in a world of multiple evils...
