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Michael Dougherty
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On the first of September 1785, with night coming on and the weather deteriorating, the crew of the ship Faithful Steward sailed toward Delaware's notorious False Cape. In the summer of 1785, a group of Irish migrants took to the Atlantic to escape the abuse and persecution of the ruling classes at home. They sought a new life in the United States, a place "where the banner of freedom waved proudly" and "every good was possessed." Their ship was new...
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Trick 'R Treat
Sam's 10th Anniversary Collection
From the deliciously dark imagination of Trick 'r Treat creator Michael Dougherty (writer/director of the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the horror hit Krampus, and the screenwriter of X-Men 2 and Superman Returns), comes the definitive Trick 'r Treat comic book collection in celebration of the 10th anniversary of this beloved horror saga. For the first time, Legendary Comics brings fans...
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You're About To Go On An Incredible Adventure
Imagine it's 1897 and Gold Fever has gripped you to your very being.
You quickly board a steam ship headed for the rugged frontier town of Skagway, Alaska. The entrance to the Klondike gold fields.
But you didn't count on a man known as Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith and his gang of thugs and thieves.
If you survive long enough to strike gold, you still have to get it past Soapy and his gang. But...
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Alaska commercial fishing is the hardest, most dangerous work I have ever done in my life. When I was only 16, my dad got me a job on a purse seiner out of the picturesque town of Cordova, Alaska on Prince William Sound. I had no idea what a purse seiner was, but I was about to find out.
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An 1800s western short story. In The Long Ride Home, an old west gunfighter is tired of having to prove himself to every young upstart who's looking to make a name for himself by out drawing a famous gunfighter.But after being shot by a bushwacker in an ambush, the gunfighter meets a woman and her young boy who make him think about hanging up his gun.But who ambushed him and why? One more gunfight brings him home.
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Trouble at the Lucky Lady, an 1800s old west short story is book two in the Gus Baxter, western fiction series. Gunfighter Gus Baxter becomes a hard fisted Sheriff. Gus finds new adventure when he hangs up his guns to become the hard fisted sheriff of Logan where he must deal with a drunken young cowboy who sees himself as the town "He Bull." After sending the cowboy out of town in nothing but his Long Johns, Gus finds himself having to face the...
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From 1959 to 1971, The Varsity Show ran live on KTVA channel 11 in Anchorage, Alaska. The show was Anchorage's answer to the American Bandstand TV show and it featured Anchorage area teens dancing on TV to the latest hit songs. But that's not the whole story. Anchorage high school students earned scholarships by becoming staff interns on The Varsity Show.
9) Joe Spenard
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Joe Spenard was one of the most colorful characters who came to the rugged tent city in 1916 that would become Anchorage, Alaska. In this e-book you'll discover his real name and how he created three icons that are still in Anchorage, Alaska.
10) Kings of Sole
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Kings of Sole is a funny short story about author Michael R Dougherty and his younger brother Tom and their fun adventure fishing for sole, under a fish cannery in Cordova, Alaska. You'll laugh when Mike and Tom meet two scoundrels from the fish cannery and when a large Halibut nearly sinks their plans to be the "Kings of Sole". An Alaska Fishing Adventure
11) Trick 'r treat
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Warner Home Video
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2009.
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English
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Four intertwined tales of a secret serial killer, a college virgin, teenage pranksters, and a woman who hates Halloween all take place one Halloween night.
12) Krampus
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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[2016]
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English
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This darkly festive tale of a yuletide ghoul reveals an irreverently twisted side to the holiday. The horror-comedy tells the story of young Max, who turns his back on Christmas as his dysfunctional family comes together and comically clashes over the holidays. When they accidentally unleash the wrath of Krampus, an ancient entity from European folklore, all hell breaks loose and beloved holiday icons take on a monstrous life of their own.
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[2019]
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English
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The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
15) X2: X-men united
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
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English
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An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
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Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect that everyone involved is being manipulated by an industry...