Doug Liman
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when they discover they are each other's next target.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Formats
Description
In a near future, an alien race has hit the Earth in an unbeatable assault. Major William Cage has never seen a day of combat, but is dropped into a suicide mission and killed within minutes. Cage now finds himself thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same day over and over, fighting and dying each time. With each "life", Cage learns more fighting skills, so that when he and warrior Rita Vrataski take the fight to the aliens, they are...
4) Fair Game
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
On a dystopian planet without women, Viola crash-lands in the middle of an all-male colony and together with Todd, its young member, they set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
6) Jumper
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
7) Go
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A group of hip and outrageous people embark on a wild, late night ride that won't end until the sun comes up.
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. With Maria's reluctant help, Bourne edges...
9) Swingers
Series
Description
Mike is a not-very-confident comedian-actor, an L.A. transplant from New York who cannot go two minutes without returning to the subject of his ex-girlfriend, with whom he is still obsessed six months after they split up. His slickster buddy Trent is a would-be producer, and Rob is weighing an offer to play Goofy at Disneyland. In between bit parts, they play golf, or video games, and go to parties. To make up for this lack of success, they earnestly...
10) Fair game
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
11) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Unbeknownst to each other, semi-happily married John and Jane Smith work as highly paid assassins for rival organizations. But when then discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in an explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, and thrilling non-stop action."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
When Ryan Atwood, a tough, guarded, fiercely intelligent 16-year-old plunges headlong into the wealthy community of Newport Beach, he soon discovers that the ruling families of Orange County are every bit as territorial as the tough crowd with which he ran on the streets of Chino. For Sandy Cohen, the idealistic public defender who takes Ryan in; his wife Kirsten, the linchpin of O.C. society; their awkward adolescent son, Seth; and the beautiful...
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Jason Bourne is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. With Maria's reluctant help, Bourne...
14) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"Unbeknownst to each other, semi-happily married John and Jane Smith work as highly paid assassins for rival organizations. But when then discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in an explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, and thrilling non-stop action."--Container.
15) Jumper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
David is a Jumper who can teleport himself anywhere in the world, which creates a fun and exciting life. Things turn deadly when David finds himself pursued by a secret organization sworn to kill Jumpers. He forms an uneasy alliance with another Jumper and becomes a player in a war that has been raging for thousands of years.
16) American made
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In The Bourne identity, Jason Bourne, suffering from amnesia, uncovers the truth behind his mysterious past.
In The Bourne supremacy, Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation.
In The Bourne ultimatum, Bourne is inadvertently brought out of hiding by London-based reporter Simon Ross.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Description
Bourne, is pulled from the sea suffering from amnesia with a pair of bullet wounds in his back. His only clue to his own identity is a bank account number etched on a capsule implanted in his body. He finds the Zurich bank where money, a gun, and several passports with different names await. He quickly realizes he can trust no one and offers a German gypsy named Maria ten thousand dollars for a ride to Paris. With Maria's reluctant help, Bourne edges...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...