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Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber
The Manchurian candidate
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5 editions published between 2004 and 2006 in English and held by 1,573 libraries worldwide When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed as part of a plot to get Shaw into the White House. Now the Manchurian Global corporation appears desperate to stop him from finding out.
Defiance
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10 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 1,548 libraries worldwide The deep forests of Poland and Belarus are the domain of the occupying Germans during World War II. The three Bielski brothers go into the forests to undertake the impossible task of foraging for food, weapons and survival, not just for themselves but for a large mass of Polish Jews fleeing from the German war machine. The brothers, living with the fear of discovery, must contend with neighboring Soviet partisans and deciding whom to trust. They take on the responsibility of guardians and motivate hundreds of women, men, children and elderly to join their fight against the Nazi regime while hiding in makeshift homes in the dark, cold, unforgiving forest. At the same time, the brothers turn a band of war defectors into powerful freedom fighters. Based on true events.
The painted veil
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1,505 libraries worldwide Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.
Salt
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12 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,482 libraries worldwide As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
X-Men origins. Wolverine
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6 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 1,451 libraries worldwide Somewhere in the wilds of northwest Canada in the early 1800s, Logan and Victor, two half-brothers with special powers grow up amid violence. Eventually they will become the near-indestructible warriors known as Wolverine and Sabretooth. William Stryker is a sinister government operative whose Weapon X program experiments keep pulling Wolverine back in. Kayla Silverfox shares a peaceful Canadian co-existence with Wolverine as he tries to drop out of the program. Along the way, Wolverine encounters many mutants, both familiar and new.
Kate & Leopold
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18 editions published between 2001 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,234 libraries worldwide Kate and her actor brother live in 21st century New York. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, has found a spot near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time-- one can return to the 19th century. Stuart goes back to the 1870s and takes pictures, then is followed back to New York by Leopold. Leopold gets help with fitting into the 21st century from Kate's brother Charlie, and meets Kate herself. Kate is climbing the corporate ladder in advertising, but her growing feelings for Leopold cause her to reevaluate her priorities in life.
Love in the time of cholera
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2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,183 libraries worldwide Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
Surviving the dust bowl
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5 editions published between 1998 and 2007 in English and held by 1,172 libraries worldwide The drought of 1931 brought financial and emotional ruin to thousands of families in the Southern Plains. Dust Bowl was America's worst ecological disaster.
America the story of us
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5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,098 libraries worldwide "A riveting adventure of how America was invented. 'America the story of us' focuses on the people, ideas and events that built our nation, covering 400 years of American history in the most extensive and in-depth television series ever produced by History. Sharing their thoughts on the building of America, and what it means to be an American, are a world-class group of individuals including Tom Brokaw, Michael Douglas, Meryl Streep, Buzz Aldrin, Colin Powell, Donald Trump, John Legend, Melissa Etheridge, Brian Williams and more"--Container.
Everything is illuminated
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16 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 1,076 libraries worldwide A young American man, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly broken English, journeys to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village that was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
Hamlet
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3 editions published between 2000 and 2001 in English and held by 1,008 libraries worldwide A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
The sum of all fears
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5 editions published between 2002 and 2008 in English and held by 963 libraries worldwide CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.
Taking Woodstock
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1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 811 libraries worldwide In 1969, Elliot Tiber, an interior designer living in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, The El Monaco. Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family's motel to the promoters and generate business. Three weeks later half a million people are on their way to his neighbor's farm.
Repo men
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5 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 767 libraries worldwide Humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property, with no concern for your comfort or survival.
The Jewish Americans
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2 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 746 libraries worldwide Chronicles the 350 year saga of immigrants who gradually wove themselves into the fabric of American life without abandoning their traditions.
The Hurricane
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5 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in English and held by 708 libraries worldwide Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The sixteenth round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
The omen
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9 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 707 libraries worldwide Robert and Katherine Thorn are as loving of parents as any young boy could ask for, but as fate would have it, their new son Damien is far from the typical child. As the mysterious boy's growth begins to share frightening parallels with the Biblical passages detailing the rise of the Antichrist, and the lives of all who seek to reveal his true nature are cut gruesomely short, Robert and Katherine are forced to face the horrifying prospect that their child has been sent from Satan to hasten the fall of modern civilization, and that there is little they can do to curb his prophesied path of ultimate destruction.
The sum of all fears
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8 editions published between 2002 and 2003 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 674 libraries worldwide CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.
Scream 2
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9 editions published between 1997 and 2003 in English and Turkish and held by 661 libraries worldwide In this sequel to Scream, Sidney Prescott thought she'd put the murders that shattered her life behind her, until a copy cat killer begins acting out a real life sequel.
To the moon
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3 editions published between 1999 and 2008 in English and held by 649 libraries worldwide In this expanded two-hour special, the NOVA television program presents the story behind the Apollo space program, including the historic walk on the moon in 1969. more
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Action and adventure films Adultery Antiquities Biographical films Biography Brainwashing Brothers Canada China Comedy films Documentary films Documentary television programs Drama England Epidemics Feature films Feature films Fiction films Film adaptations Films for the hearing impaired Historical films Historical television programs History Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Intelligence officers Jewish men Jews--Persecutions Jews rescue (1939-1945 : World War) Man-woman relationships New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn Bridge Nonfiction television programs Persian Gulf War (1991) Poland Regeneration (Biology) Ryan, Jack (Fictitious character) Social history Spies Spy films Television programs--for the hearing impaired Thrillers (Motion pictures) Time travel United States United States.--Central Intelligence Agency Vice-Presidential candidates Video recordings--for people with visual disabilities Video recordings--for the hearing impaired War films Wolverine (Fictitious character) World War (1939-1945) X-Men (Fictitious characters)
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Alternative Names
Schreiber, Isaac Liev.
Schreiber, Isaac Liev, 1967-
Languages
English
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Multiple languages (17) German (16) French (13) Spanish (9) Turkish (7) No Linguistic content (6) Undetermined (3) Japanese (1) Italian (1) Russian (1) Covers
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