Elmore Leonard
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Phil Sundeen thinks Deputy Sheriff Kirby Frye is just a green local kid with a tin badge. And when the wealthy cattle baron's men drag two prisoners from Frye's jail and hang them from a high tree, there's nothing the untried young lawman can do about it. But Kirby's got more grit than Sundeen and his hired muscles bargained for. They can beat the boy and humiliate him, but they can't make him forget the jog he has sworn to do. The cattleman has money,...
3) Rum punch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Rum Punch is classic Elmore Leonard-the electrifying thriller that served as the basis for the acclaimed film Jackie Brown by director Quentin Tarantino, starring Pam Grier, Robert DeNiro, and Samuel L. Jackson. Leonard's story of a not-altogether-blameless flight attendant on the run from her vicious gun-running sometime employer who sees her as a troublesome loose end, Rum Punch is Leonard at his sharpest and most ingeniously entertaining. Enjoy...
4) Be cool
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chili Palmer, a small-time mobster and B-movie producer, attempts to produce a Hollywood film while avoiding a hit man on his trail.
5) Westerns
Author
Series
Library of America volume 308
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
781 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic...
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 552 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Due to his old-school style, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal-mining towns in Eastern Kentucky. Lawman Givens is a tough, soft-spoken gentleman who never gives an inch.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 552 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Due to his old-school style, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal-mining towns in Eastern Kentucky. Lawman Givens is a tough, soft-spoken gentleman who never gives an inch.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season two, Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family, Winona finds herself in hot water after she is a victim in a bank robbery, Loretta begins to piece together what the Bennetts did with her father, and much more.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In season two, Raylan tangles with a ruthless Harlan County crime family, Winona finds herself in hot water after she is a victim in a bank robbery, Loretta begins to piece together what the Bennetts did with her father, and much more.
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (607 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens confronts the Crowes, a deadly, lawless family from Florida intent on settling in Harlan with new criminal enterprises in mind. Meanwhile, Boyd Crowder struggles to free his imprisoned fiancee Ava as he partners with the Dixie Mafia's Wynn Duffy.
14) Jackie Brown
Language
English
Description
What do a sexy stewardess, a street-tough gun runner, a lonely bail bondsman, a shifty ex-con, an earnest federal agent, and a stoned-out beach bunny have in common? They're six players on the trail of a half million dollars in cash! But, who will end up getting played, and who will actually make the big score?
16) Killshot
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Armand 'Blackbird' Degas is a Mafia hit man who shoots to kill and never leaves witnesses, until now. When Carmen and Wayne Colson see him at the scene of a botched murder attempt, they become his next targets. After entering witness protection, they discover the law isn't on their side and decide to take matters into their own hands"--Container.
17) The big bounce
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-time con man trying to lead an easier life in Hawaii just can't seem to stay out of trouble when a bikini-clad girl has an illegal get-rich-quick scheme for him.
20) Hombre
Author
Language
English
Description
John Russell, a young man nicknamed Hombre by the Apaches who raised him, has a deadly confrontation with a determined gang of stagecoach robbers.