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Academy Award winners Juliette Binoche and Morgan Freeman lead this riveting thriller set in the trucking industry and its seamy underbelly of human trafficking. To save the life of her brother, Sally, a truck driver, reluctantly agrees to smuggle illicit cargo: a girl named Leila. As Sally and Leila begin a danger-fraught journey across state lines, a dogged FBI operative sets out on their trail, determined to do whatever it takes to terminate a...

Presents information on the skills and training needed to become a motor transport operator. Details the responsibilities that go along with this career and includes color photographs, a glossary, and further reading sources.

How do you make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does? That's the question facing Odd Thomas, the young man with a unique ability to commune with restless spirits and help them find justice and peace. But this time, it's the living who desperately need him. Three helpless innocents will be brutally executed unless Odd can intervene in time. Who and where they are remain a mystery. The only thing Odd knows for sure is who the killer will...

"Tacoma Jones loves working at her family's roadside diner, the Brake Fast, pouring coffee and serving eggs and muffins to truckers all day long. But tonight, she is finally going to break out her collection of cookbooks and prepare the best dinner the state of Washington has ever seen. But her excitement is dampened when she learns that today is one of Dad's bad days, when his depression makes it hard for him to get out of bed. Tacoma knows she can't...

A long-haul trucker reflects on the changing realities of the working class as witnessed during journeys ranging from the I-95 Powerland and the Florida Everglades to the truck stops of the Midwest and the Rocky Mountains. More than thirty years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a long-haul trucker. Since then he's covered more than a million miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Known by his trucker...

A secret weapon of a mysterious consortium, Charlotte Rowe, who baits evil predators and stops them in their tracks, goes after a long-haul truck driver whose cargo bay is a gallery of horrors on wheels.

"A rhyming picture book that asks different kinds of big-wheeled workers how they feel about their various jobs."--Provided by publisher.

Four action films featuring Sylvester Stallone. Tango & Cash: Two rival L.A. policemen who have one thing in common -- each thinks "he" is the best -- team up to pursue a vicious international crime lord who has set them up. Demolition man: In 2032 San Angeles, the bad guy Snipes escapes from prison, the only cop who can stop him is Stallone, a cop in an ice cube. Specialist: Hired by May Munro to bomb the mobsters who murdered her parents, ex-CIA...

Philo Beddoe, the easygoing truck driver and bare-knuckle brawler, and his 165-pound orangutan pal, Clyde, get into more mischief in this faster and funnier sequel to Every Which Way but Loose. Beddoe is hoping to 'retire' from fighting. But a new contender lures him back, and mobsters kidnap his girl to ensure he'll turn up for the showdown. Ma, Orville, and those hapless motorcycle morons called the Black Widows all return for more fun.

The year is 2196. Three truckers pull off a dangerous transport - contents unknown - across the solar system in their rocket powered rig ...