Elmore Leonard
62) 3:10 to Yuma
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Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn each other's respect. But with Wade's outfit on their trail,...
65) Get Shorty
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Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmakerHarry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
66) 3:10 to Yuma
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As other volunteers quit or are killed, a rancher is left alone to deal with the responsibility of putting a captured outlaw aboard a Fort Yuma-bound train.
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A collection of western stories. In The Colonel's Lady, a white woman uses feminine guile to outwit her Apache captor, in Hurrah for Capt. Early, a black cavalryman one-upmanships a white racist, while in the title story a gunman helps a humiliated woman--she was prisoner of Indians--regain her dignity.
68) Valdez is coming
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As battered and tarnished as his shield, aging Mexican-American lawman Bob Valdez (Lancaster) has learned to bend under decades of prejudice. But when a cold-hearted American gunrunner humiliates him to the limits of dignity, he pulls himself up, straps on his guns, and announces a vendetta with a terse message: "VALDEZ IS COMING."
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Library of America volume 255
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"Inventor of a fast, funny, sharp, and tough style uniquely his own, Elmore Leonard is widely considered America's greatest modern crime writer. With this volume collecting the four Detroit novels that established his reputation, The Library of America inaugurates a three-volume edition of Leonard's greatest work, selected in consultation with the author shortly before his death. Fifty-Two Pickup is an insidiously brutal book about an adulterous businessman...
71) Touch
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Emerging from years of seclusion, Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) goes to work in an L.A. clinic ... and casually begins healing the sick with just a touch of his hands. He doesn't think it's a big deal, but the hustlers who find out about his talents want to turn him into a superstar. But when he meets an attractive woman (Fonda), he no longer feels like touching anyone else but her.
72) The big bounce
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Jack is a small-time con man trying to lead an easier life in Hawaii. Trouble is, he can't keep out of trouble, and when he does stay clean, trouble finds him. Trouble, in this case, comes in the bikini-clad form of Nancy, the mistress of a local real estate developer. She lures Jack into a scheme that ultimately involves complicating Jack's moral dilemma when Nancy asks Jack to help her double-cross the developer out of $200,000.
74) Out of sight
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A career bank robber busts out of jail with the help of his buddy and kidnaps a U.S. Marshal in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big heist, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.
76) Jackie Brown
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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! The only questions are, who's getting played, and who's going to make the big score? Combining an explosive mix of intense action and edgy humor.
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Library of America volume 280
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Four hardboiled novels from America's modern master of crime fiction, edited by Leonard's long-term employee, researcher and friend.
79) Hombre
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"John Russell, a white man raised by an Arizona Apache tribe, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house he inherits. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride with the driver. But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival"--Container.
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"Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, who's already slipped through the fingers of Detroit's finest once"--Container.