Author : Billy Hayes
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drug traffic
ISBN : 9780751541984
A true story of capture and incarceration; danger and degradation; hope and survival.
Author : Margaret K. Wetterer
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512418617
Kate stared at the rickety wooden bridge. There were boards loose on its narrow walkway. There was no railing to hold on to. She was afraid to cross this bridge even in daylight. But she had to cross it now. She had to get to the train station in time to stop the midnight express. When a heavy storm destroyed the bridge over Honey Creek, near Kate Shelley's home in Moingona, Iowa, fifteen-year-old Kate bravely rushed out into the storm, saving the lives of two men and preventing hundreds of other lives from being lost. This is the true story of a young girl's resourcefulness and courage in the face of great danger.
Author : Oliver Stone
Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0358346231
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1986, Oliver Stone had been wounded as an infantryman in Vietnam, and spent years writing unproduced scripts while driving taxis in New York, finally venturing westward to Los Angeles and a new life. Stone, now 73, recounts those formative years with in-the-moment details of the high and low moments: We see meetings with Al Pacino over Stone's scripts for Scarface, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July; the harrowing demon of cocaine addiction following the failure of his first feature, The Hand (starring Michael Caine); his risky on-the-ground research of Miami drug cartels for Scarface; his stormy relationship with The Deer Hunter director Michael Cimino; the breathless hustles to finance the acclaimed and divisive Salvador; and tensions behind the scenes of his first Academy Award-winning film, Midnight Express. Chasing the Light is a true insider's look at Hollywood's years of upheaval in the 1970s and '80s.
Author : Jane Smisor Bastien
Publisher : Neil A. Kjos Music Company
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9780849773051
Author : Susan Bluestein Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 34,81 MB
Release : 1998-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0671796739
From Simon & Schuster, After Midnight is Susan Bluestein Davis' exploration of the life and death of Brad Davis. Susan Bluestein Davis tells the heart-wrenching story of her life with her longtime partner, Hollywood star Brad Davis--from his rise to fame through his role in the movie Midnight Express to the painful struggle with AIDS, the disease that finally took his life.
Author : YOYOK RAHAYU BASUKI
Publisher : Azhar Publisher
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Midnight Express “A race against time to save the world." As the Paris-London express hurtles through the dark night, a sinister plot is unraveling. A Swede, an American journalist and an insurance agent, all strangers, must work together to stop a bomb from detonating and uncover a conspiracy involving the elusive Illuminati - before it's too late.
Author : Francesco Mantica
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781974357307
Pipi is an average girl from a small town in the early 1980s-a little shy, a bit lonely, and very curious. She loves her home and family but dreams of more. She wants to see the world, and she has a train ticket to get her there. When a chance encounter with an eccentric homeless man puts her on board the Midnight Express, she discovers a world rich with the magic of nature. The Midnight Express is not your normal train-it's more Wild West than modern ones. It has a compartment just for chocolate and a magical museum. And behind a hidden door marked for magicians only, the mysterious stranger awaits. The mysterious stranger is a tall, dark skinned middle-aged man with a long handheld wooden cane, who is wearing a cape and a vest bearing a hodgepodge of various items. He calls himself a wizard and speaks of how imagination and willpower can shape reality and of the dark forces that now threaten the magical community. Fans of Harry Potter and C. S. Lewis's works will delight in this fresh tale of spiritual quest, magic and mystery. Where imagination is magic, nothing happens by chance, and the most curious journey of all is one of self-discovery.
Author : Andrew Martin
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 24,98 MB
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1782832122
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes. The reality could often be as thrilling: early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot). In Night Trains, Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents. This is no simple matter. The night trains have fallen on hard times, and the services are disappearing one by one. But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers, the intriguing characters and exotic atmospheres have survived. Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post, the sun rising over the Riviera, or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night, Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail. By tracing the history of the sleeper trains, he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself. The original sleepers helped break down national barriers and unify the continent. Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity - and otherwise - as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times', with Brexit looming. Against this tumultuous backdrop, he experiences his own smaller dramas, as he fails to find crucial connecting stations, ponders the mystery of the compartment dog, and becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit.
Author : Margaret K. Wetterer
Publisher : Graphic Universe
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0761361928
On July 6,1881, in Moingona, Iowa, when a ferocious storm washes out the railroad bridges, fifteen-year-old Kate Shelley risks her life to prevent a terrible train disaster.
Author : Matt Zoller Seitz
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1613128142
Stone himself serves as guide to this no-holds-barred retrospective—an extremely candid and comprehensive monograph of the renowned and controversial writer, director, and cinematic historian in interview form. Over the course of five years, Academy Award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone (Midnight Express, Scarface, Platoon, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Snowden) and New York Times bestselling author Matt Zoller Seitz (The Wes Anderson Collection) discussed, debated, and deconstructed the arc of Stone's outspoken, controversial life and career with extraordinary candor. This book collects those conversations for the first time, including anecdotes about Stone's childhood, Vietnam, his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, and his continual struggle to reinvent himself as an artist. Their dialogue is illustrated by hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and documents from Stone's personal archive, dating back to Stone's birth: personal snapshots, private correspondence, annotated script pages and storyboards, behind-the-scenes photography, and production files from all of his films to date—through 2016's Snowden, and including Stone's epic Showtime mini-series Untold HIstory of the United States. Critical commentary from Seitz on each of Stone's films is joined by original essays from filmmaker Ramin Bahrani; writer, editor, and educator Kiese Laymon; writer and actor Jim Beaver; and film critics Walter Chaw, Michael Guarnieri, Kim Morgan, and Alissa Wilkinson. At once a complex analysis of a master director’s vision and a painfully honest critical biography in widescreen technicolor, The Oliver Stone Experience is as daring, intense, and provocative as Stone’s films—it's an Oliver Stone movie about Oliver Stone, in the form of a book. Both this book and Stone’s highly anticipated film, Snowden, will be released in September 2016 to coincide with Stone’s seventieth birthday (September 15, 1946). Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: Mad Men Carousel, The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection: The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.
