Arthur Hailey
1) Airport
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Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times–bestselling thriller about an airport thrust into chaos by a whiteout blizzard: “A spellbinder” (The Denver Post).
As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination....
As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and airline personnel try to cope with this unstoppable force of nature that is endangering thousands of lives. And in the air, a lone plane struggles to reach its destination....
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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Description
A killer's confession on Death Row prompts Malcolm Ainslie, the Miami detective who captured him, to reopen a case. The trail leads Ainslie to a policewoman with whom he once had an affair and who now sits on a police board and could end his career.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1975]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the inner workings of the banking industry as well as the power struggles at the executive level. The plot revolves around the First Mercantile Bank's two executive vice-presidents both vying for the bank's presidency. The situation is resolved, but not until a counterfeit ring has been broken, a financial empire collapses, and the bank nearly fails.
6) Overload
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Provides inside glimpses of the little-known world of electric power production--which is increasingly vital to all. One incident after another at Golden State Power and Light Company leads to the ulitmate crises--a total black-out!
7) Wheels
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Master storyteller Arthur Hailey's #1 New York Times bestseller is a turbocharged thriller about America's automobile industry, from the bottom up Ford. Chrysler. General Motors. They were the Big Three, accused by critics of greed, monopoly, and abusing the public trust. In the shadows of these towering giants is American Motors, blazing its own path to greatness. Adam Trenton, the fiercely ambitious executive in charge of project development,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1959]
Language
English
Description
The classic medical novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Arthur Hailey takes readers behind the scenes of a great hospital. Change is in the air when a new board chairman sets out to modernize and expand Three Counties Hospital in Burlington, Pennsylvania - a once venerable institution whose standards have slipped. Dynamic Dr. Kent O'Donnell, a Harvard Medical School-trained surgeon, accepts the board's offer to lead and reform the rundown,...
13) Hotel
Author
Language
English
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Description
Reveals the inner workings and problems of a large hotel in New Orleans. Shows how the management deals with several incidents like the changing of the hotel's ownership, a racial incident, an attempted rape, theft, a hit-and-run accident, and much more.
15) Airport
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The manager of an international airport must juggle personal crises with professional responsibilities as he attempts to keep his blizzard-torn facility open to rescue a bomb-damaged jetliner.