Midnight Express

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ISBN 13 : 9780751541984
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis Midnight Express by : Billy Hayes

Download or read book Midnight Express written by Billy Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of capture and incarceration; danger and degradation; hope and survival.

Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express

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Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
ISBN 13 : 1512418617
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express by : Margaret K. Wetterer

Download or read book Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express written by Margaret K. Wetterer and published by Millbrook Press ™. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Midnight Return

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ISBN 13 : 9780988981454
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Midnight Return by : Billy Hayes

Download or read book Midnight Return written by Billy Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midnight Return picks up where Midnight Express left off. Billy Hayes leapt from prison isolation to international notoriety when the book about his five years in and escape from a Turkish prison became a worldwide bestseller, and an Academy Award-winning film. Midnight Return chronicles his struggles and triumphs in that transition, tracing Billy's journey from desperation to freedom, and even true love. It revisits his daring escape in more detail, and weaves in the harrowing story of his friend who remained behind and Billy's efforts to help free him. We take the ride with Billy as he sometimes stumbles along a path toward healing, self-knowledge, and a new life incorporating his hardest won lessons--to a place where he can say that being arrested and sentenced to life in prison was both the worst and the best thing that ever happened to him. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape plotting, Billy took matters into his own hands and pulled off a daring escape to freedom. Soon after, he wrote Midnight Express.

Chasing the Light

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Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0358346231
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Chasing the Light by : Oliver Stone

Download or read book Chasing the Light written by Oliver Stone and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2020 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

After Midnight

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671796739
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis After Midnight by : Susan Bluestein Davis

Download or read book After Midnight written by Susan Bluestein Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Midnight Express Letters

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ISBN 13 : 9780988981430
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Book Synopsis The Midnight Express Letters by : Billy Hayes

Download or read book The Midnight Express Letters written by Billy Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Midnight Express Letters is a compelling collection of letters that Billy Hayes wrote to his family, girlfriend, and friends during his years in a Turkish prison. Here is the raw source material from which Midnight Express-the worldwide best-selling book and Academy Award-winning film--is drawn. Together with annotation, photos, and images of the handwritten pages, these letters tell Billy's story of both the events and the inner journey, in his original words, with the urgency and intimacy of the moment. In 1970 Billy Hayes was an English major who left college in search of adventures to write about, like his hero Jack London. He had a rude awakening when he was arrested at the airport in Istanbul trying to board a plane while carrying four pounds of hashish, and given a life sentence. After five brutal years, relentless efforts by his family to gain his release, and endless escape plotting, Billy took matters into his own hands and pulled off a daring escape to freedom. Soon after, he wrote Midnight Express.

The Midnight Library

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559493
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Book Synopsis The Midnight Library by : Matt Haig

Download or read book The Midnight Library written by Matt Haig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

Night Trains

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Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832122
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Night Trains by : Andrew Martin

Download or read book Night Trains written by Andrew Martin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Oliver Stone Experience

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613128142
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Oliver Stone Experience by : Matt Zoller Seitz

Download or read book The Oliver Stone Experience written by Matt Zoller Seitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Midnight Adventure of Kate Shelley, Train Rescuer

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Publisher : Graphic Universe
ISBN 13 : 0761361928
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Midnight Adventure of Kate Shelley, Train Rescuer by : Margaret K. Wetterer

Download or read book The Midnight Adventure of Kate Shelley, Train Rescuer written by Margaret K. Wetterer and published by Graphic Universe. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.