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Live Free or Die Hard

Action
When someone hacks into the computers at the FBI’s Cyber Crime Division, the Director decides to round up all the hackers who could have done this. When he’s told that because it’s the 4th of July most of their agents are not around so they might have trouble getting people to get the hackers. So he instructs them to get local PD’S to take care of it. And one of the cops they ask is John McClane who is tasked with bringing a hacker named Farrell to the FBI. But as soon as he gets there someone starts shooting at them. McClane manages to get them out but they’re still being pursued. And it’s just when McClane arrives in Washington that the whole system breaks down and chaos ensues.

Releases November 27, 2007

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Hairspray

Drama/Musical
It’s 1962 and change is in the air in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a girl with big hair and big dreams, has only one passion in life - to dance on “The Corny Collins Show.” When her chance arrives, she grooves her way into instant stardom and the eyes of teen-dream Link Larkin. But with the program’s scheming stage manager against her, trend-setting Tracy will need the help of her best friend Penny, her bighearted mother and sassy co-host Motormouth Maybelle to show the world that all it takes to make a dream come true is a toe-tappin’ beat and a little Hairspray!

Releases November 27, 2007

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Amazing Grace
Danielle Steel

Fiction
On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect–until, just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters. And as the lights go out, people begin to scream….In the earthquake’s aftermath, the lives of four strangers will converge.
As the city staggers back to life, a chain reaction of extraordinary events will touch each of the survivors. As a year passes, and the anniversary of the earthquake approaches, more surprises are in store–as each discovers the unexpected gifts in a tragedy’s wake…and the amazing grace of new beginnings.

Releases November 27, 2007

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Darkest Evening of the Year
Dean Koontz

Fiction/Suspense
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy’s careless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret.
No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. The unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone.
Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she’s always been there to save. But now there’s no one to save Amy and those she loves.

Releases November 27, 2007

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How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else

Non-Fiction

I read it because of the catchy title and the fact it is soon to be a movie starring Tom Hanks…The story began with a man named Michael in his mid 60’s, he’s lost his 6 figure job that he held for decades, had a affair on his wife that produced one child and a divorce. His kids don’t talk to him and he’s been diagnosed with a slow growing brain tumor…Out of work and almost out of money he stops in for his last indulgence, Starbucks coffee, and that’s where his life will begin to change. He’s offered a job at Starbucks and he takes it. For the first time he begins to see life not from his privileged upbringing and Ivy League degree but from the other side of the tracks. Michael begins to understand it’s not the job that counts it’s how you treat people. It’s also about how we interact with the people we love and slowly the transformation begins. Michael is given another chance to make a difference, mend fences and not be afraid to make changes and take some chances.

Released in September 2007

Barb Craner
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