Friday, January 04, 2008

Bender the Robot, a Desert Shoot-em-up, Naomi Watts

DVDs

Bender's Big Score starring [a bunch of voices]. Evil, nudist aliens force Bender to travel through time stealing Earth's treasures. The direct to DVD full length feature film from the television show.

The Kingdom starring Jason Bateman, Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper, Jennifer Garner. An investigative team of FBI agents travel to Saudi Arabia to work a bombing investigation and then get in trouble with Saudi radicals.

Eastern Promises starring Naomi Watts and Viggo Mortensen. Mobster (played by Viggo) starts a relationship with a midwife (played by Naomi) who has evidence against his criminal cohorts.

CD

Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.

Fiction

Custer's Brother's Horse by Edwin Shrake. A British author, former Confederate soldier and a young girl face a kangaroo court in TX. The escape and are chased across Texas by the cavalry.

Shadow Music by Julie Garwood. Love, murder and adventure in medieval Scotland.

The Shooters by W.E.B. Griffin. Army commando Castillo is tasked with rescuing a captured DEA agent in South America.

Blood Dreams by Kay Hooper. A Senator's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless killer. A special FBI investigative unit teams up with a secretive civilian group to find her and stop the killer.

Book of Old House by Sarah Graves. Jake finds a book under the stairs of her 190 year old house. She has a local book historian look at it and he ends up murdered. Uh-oh.

Large Print

Hand of Evil by J.A. Jance. Suspense in the Arid-zona desert.

Bleeding Kansas by Sara Paretsky. Two neighboring families have feuded since 1850.

NonFiction

Don't Bet Against Me! by Deanna Favre. Favre beats cancer and goes on the breast cancer awareness trail.