Thayne whipple (185 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Richard Arden has just been told he's dying - a rare disease, no cure, no way to know if he has months or years. Alone in the world, with no family and no one to call, he decides he won't wait for it to take him. He'll choose the moment himself.Then, standing on a bridge at the edge of that choice, someone tries to kill him first.What follows is a relentless, feverish chase through a city that seems to be turning against Richard from every direction - police who won't believe him, a doctor searching for a rational explanation, a woman named Angela who loves him anyway, and a pursuer he can never quite see. Is someone really hunting him, or is his mind unraveling under the weight of his diagnosis? As the line between persecution and delusion disappears, Richard has only one path left: to stop running, and finally turn to face what's chasing him.ENEMIGO is a gripping, atmospheric descent into fear, love, and mortality - a story that asks how far a man will go, and how much he'll risk, when he's already been told how it ends. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He came looking for work. He found a war.When a nameless drifter takes a job sweeping floors in the cattle town of Dry Ridge, he stumbles into a range war years in the making - the Bannister brothers ruling through fear, small ranchers losing everything, and a debt of blood no one has been able to collect. But the drifter isn't quite what he seems, and before it's over, the whole town will know his name.A tightly wound Western screenplay of revenge, disguise, and reckoning on the open range.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some secrets are worth digging up. Others should stay buried.When the city announces plans to demolish the old Martell factory - abandoned for a decade and whispered about ever since its owner died there under mysterious circumstances - thirteen-year-old Cory Clark and his best friend Zeke can't resist one last look inside before it's gone.What they find is far more than dust and ghost stories.A police detective recruits the boys as unofficial scouts for a stalled investigation. A starving stranger hiding among the crates begs for their silence and their food. And somewhere in the factory's forgotten offices, a fortune - hidden by a dead man a decade ago - is still waiting to be found.As Cory and Zeke are pulled deeper into a mystery involving armed men, a desperate fugitive, and a hidden inheritance worth killing for, they'll have to decide how far loyalty and curiosity are worth risking everything.The Old Factory is a coming-of-age mystery-adventure screenplay about friendship, courage, and the price of doing the right thing when it would be so much easier to walk away.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He could talk to horses. It cost him everything - and gave him something no one else in his world would ever find.Buckskin Brady is the star attraction of a struggling traveling circus, a horseman whose gift with animals borders on the uncanny. When the circus folds, he's cast out with nothing - and left for dead beside the tracks by a railroad detective who catches him hopping a freight.Alone in a remote canyon, Brady rebuilds a life from nothing: a hut by a stream, hides tanned by his own hands, and the slow, patient work of earning the trust of a wild stallion and the free-running herd it leads. The man the world discarded becomes something else entirely - the wild horse hermit.But peace in the wilderness doesn't last. A rancher wants the herd for profit, and when his men ride in to break them, Brady becomes the only thing standing between the horses and capture - a stand that will cost him blood, put a young woman's life on the line, and end in a race no one expects him to win.Wild Horse Hermit is a classic Western screenplay about what a man will risk for the wild things - and the family - worth protecting.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Richard Arden has just been told he's dying - a rare disease, no cure, no way to know if he has months or years. Alone in the world, with no family and no one to call, he decides he won't wait for it to take him. He'll choose the moment himself.Then, standing on a bridge at the edge of that choice, someone tries to kill him first.What follows is a relentless, feverish chase through a city that seems to be turning against Richard from every direction - police who won't believe him, a doctor searching for a rational explanation, a woman named Angela who loves him anyway, and a pursuer he can never quite see. Is someone really hunting him, or is his mind unraveling under the weight of his diagnosis As the line between persecution and delusion disappears, Richard has only one path left: to stop running, and finally turn to face what's chasing him.ENEMIGO is a gripping, atmospheric descent into fear, love, and mortality - a story that asks how far a man will go, and how much he'll risk, when he's already been told how it ends.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Will Murdock never meant to start a family. He just wanted someone to split the chores with.Widowed and worn down from running his ranch alone, Will lets his friends talk him into the unthinkable: mail-ordering a bride out of the back of a magazine. He draws a name from a hat - Cornelia O'Connor - and within a day of meeting her at the stage station, they're married.Cornelia is everything Will hoped for. But she comes with six grown sons, and they don't all arrive at once. One by one, Curt, Emmerson, Ernest, Clyde, Rodney, and Billy Boy show up at the ranch - and Will's quiet life gets a lot more crowded, and a lot more complicated.Between feuding brothers, a runaway bride, and a neighboring land baron determined to force Will off his own range, Home on the Range is a warm, funny, unproduced Western screenplay from the personal papers of Verland T Whipple - a story about the family that finds you when you least expect it.This edition presents the original screenplay in standard reading format, followed by a full plot synopsis in the back matter.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - HANNAH'S WAGER is a classic American Western - an unproduced screenplay by Verland T Whipple, published for the first time. When Indian raiders kill her husband and carry off her young son, Hannah Alder refuses to wait for the law, or for luck. She marches into a lawless gold-mining camp and makes an offer that stops the saloon cold: any man willing to ride with her can put his name in a hat, and when they bring her boy home, the winner gets her hand in marriage - and the farm to go with it. Six men take the bet. A gunfighter with something to prove. A former officer with nothing left to lose. A nervous little man running from his debts. A card sharp who can't resist bad odds. And two hard cases who mean to collect on Hannah long before any Indians do. None of them know the country. None of them know where her son is being held. All Hannah knows is that he's out there - somewhere north, somewhere in the mountains - and she isn't turning back. Written in the tradition of classic frontier cinema, Hannah's Wager is a page-turning story of grit, betrayal, and one woman's refusal to accept 'impossible' as an answer. Presented here in its original screenplay format, exactly as Whipple wrote it.…

Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. HANNAH'S WAGER is a classic American Western - an unproduced screenplay by Verland T Whipple, published for the first time. When Indian raiders kill her husband and carry off her young son, Hannah Alder refuses to wait for the law, or for luck. She marches into a lawless gold-mining camp and makes an offer that stops the saloon cold: any man willing to ride with her can put his name in a hat, and when they bring her boy home, the winner gets her hand in marriage - and the farm to go with it. Six men take the bet. A gunfighter with something to prove. A former officer with nothing left to lose. A nervous little man running from his debts. A card sharp who can't resist bad odds. And two hard cases who mean to collect on Hannah long before any Indians do. None of them know the country. None of them know where her son is being held. All Hannah knows is that he's out there - somewhere north, somewhere in the mountains - and she isn't turning back. Written in the tradition of classic frontier cinema, Hannah's Wager is a page-turning story of grit, betrayal, and one woman's refusal to accept "impossible" as an answer. Presented here in its original screenplay format, exactly as Whipple wrote it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Will Murdock never meant to start a family. He just wanted someone to split the chores with.Widowed and worn down from running his ranch alone, Will lets his friends talk him into the unthinkable: mail-ordering a bride out of the back of a magazine. He draws a name from a hat - Cornelia O'Connor - and within a day of meeting her at the stage station, they're married.Cornelia is everything Will hoped for. But she comes with six grown sons, and they don't all arrive at once. One by one, Curt, Emmerson, Ernest, Clyde, Rodney, and Billy Boy show up at the ranch - and Will's quiet life gets a lot more crowded, and a lot more complicated.Between feuding brothers, a runaway bride, and a neighboring land baron determined to force Will off his own range, Home on the Range is a warm, funny, unproduced Western screenplay from the personal papers of Verland T Whipple - a story about the family that finds you when you least expect it.This edition presents the original screenplay in standard reading format, followed by a full plot synopsis in the back matter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The loudest voice in southern Utah belongs to its shyest boy. Timmie Tittertatter can sing exactly like the whole Tabernacle Choir, organ included. He didn't ask for it, he doesn't much want it, and when he lets it out at full volume it rattles windows, scatters pigeons, and blows the hats clean off the citizens of Hoopla Ridge. Before he knows it, Timmie, his crusty, soft-hearted Grandpa, and his gentle mother are bouncing out of the canyons in an old truck and into the big time: amateur night in Salt Lake City, a fast-talking little agent named Jewelneck, a pompous professor determined to expose the 'trick,' a panel of very serious doctors, and concert halls from coast to coast, all the way to Carnegie Hall and a command performance at Buckingham Palace. But fame has its price. Deer season is slipping by. Timmie's best friend is a long way from the spotlight, and home feels farther away every day. And Grandpa, who has never had two nickels to rub together, has discovered business deals. The Boy Who Could Sing Like the Tabernacle Choir is a warm, funny American tall tale about family, fame, and what home is really worth: big-hearted comedy with a small-town soul. About this edition This book presents the complete feature-film screenplay in standard screenplay format, followed by a full plot synopsis. (Spoiler alert: the synopsis gives away the ending, so read the script first.) Story by Jack Nelson; screenplay by Verland T Whipple. An unproduced screenplay published for the first time, in the spirit of the tall-tale comedies that families love to watch together. A good fit for readers who enjoy: - Clean, heartwarming family comedy- Small-town Americana and canyon-country Utah- Grandfather-and-grandson stories- Screenwriters, film students, and anyone curious how a screenplay reads on the page This is a work of fiction. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square or The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two brothers. One sheepherder. A whole lot of mountain. Ten-year-old Thad Taggart would rather read than fight, and his tough older brother Joe Buck is tired of rescuing him. When their father, furious that his sons are turning into 'mama's boys,' ships them off to a remote mountain sheep camp with a gruff, ungrammatical sheepherder named Rufe Rawlins, the brothers find out fast that the high country doesn't care how delicate anybody is. Coyotes in the night. A rattlesnake among the rocks. A mountain lion in the trees. A runaway ram, a flash of temper, and a legendary grizzly the old-timers call Old Ephraim. Far from home and running low on options, Thad and Joe Buck will have to work out what the Taggart tradition of courage really means. Wild On The Mountain is a warm-hearted family adventure comedy set in the early twentieth-century West, a story of brothers, second chances and an unlikely mentor who teaches two boys more than they ever expected to learn. About this edition: This is an original, unproduced feature-film screenplay presented in an easy-to-read screenplay format, with a full plot synopsis in the back of the book. Story by Jack Nelson. Screenplay by Jack Nelson and Verland T Whipple.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deep in the woods behind their home, Timothy, Taffy, and Jonathan Jr. have explored every inch of the forest - or so they thought. Until the day a storm chases them straight into a door hidden in the trunk of an ancient oak, and the world they know disappears behind them.Inside the tree is a realm of elves, secret staircases, hidden cities, and creatures no schoolbook ever mentioned - ruled from the shadows by Fantazama, a sorceress who has stolen the one thing that holds the tree's magic together. Without it, the tree's people are powerless against her - and without her permission, the three children may never find their way home again.To get back, Timothy, Taffy, and Jonathan Jr. will have to cross a spider's web strung over nothing, survive the tunnels of a termite army, and outwit a sorceress far more cunning than she looks - with nothing to rely on but each other.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When Karen Brooks' car breaks down on a remote canyon road, she and her young son Corey have nowhere to turn but to her uncle Will Ramsey's isolated ranch - the one place she thought was far enough away to be safe.It isn't.Somebody has followed them. Somebody who cuts the power, ties up the neighbors, and starts picking off anyone who gets between him and what he's come for. Somebody Karen thought she'd left behind for good.Will Ramsey is no stranger to danger - he's a war veteran who knows how to survive when the odds turn against him. But nothing has prepared him for an enemy this patient, this savage, or this determined. As the hunt moves from the ranch house into the rugged canyon wilderness beyond, Will discovers that stopping this man may mean becoming the very thing he's hunting.Chosen Prey is a tense, blood-and-dust survival thriller about what a family will do to protect its own - and what happens when the hunter and the hunted trade places.This edition presents Verland T Whipple's original, unproduced screenplay in its full shooting-script format, together with a complete plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She's invisible to every boy on campus. So she became three unforgettable ones instead. Frances Geraldine Brinkermeyer has a name too big for her, a reputation for being overlooked, and a marketing class assignment that gives her a very bad idea: if boys respond to the right packaging, she'll simply build it herself. Enter Gloria Sweet, glamorous and effortless. Blanche Le Jour, French and mysterious (mostly in accent). And Jasmine, a veiled princess from a desert kingdom nobody can quite locate on a map. Frances Geraldine plays all three, juggling costume changes, a telephone that never stops ringing, and three separate suitors who are each certain they've found someone singular. Meanwhile, the one boy who likes her exactly as she is keeps getting canceled on. It's a brilliant scheme right up until all three of her inventions are nominated for Homecoming Queen - and someone has to climb up on that stage and answer for it. Plan B is a screwball campus romantic comedy from the unproduced screenplays of Verland T Whipple, presented here in its original screenplay format alongside a full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The FBI tells former cop Grady Hix that his partner's killer is untouchable - living like a king in Buenos Aires, protected by wealth, power, and an ocean's worth of legal distance. Hix decides the law's reach isn't the only reach that matters. Alone, off the books, and with nothing but a local fixer, a paid informant, and his own nerve, Hix sets out to squeeze the life apart from every direction at once: turning rival crime lords against each other, framing corrupt officials, and closing in one carefully engineered disaster at a time. But taking down a man this protected takes more than pressure. It takes a disguise, a lie big enough to believe, and one last con with everything riding on it. Squeeze Play is a tightly wound revenge thriller about how far one man will go when justice runs out of road - and what's waiting for the man who thinks he's finally safe. From the unproduced screenplay archives of Verland T Whipple, presented here in its original screenplay format along with a full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two boys. One secret. A blackmail scheme that gets way out of hand.In the quiet town of Oakcrest, Freddy Foster and Rusty Hobbs are just ordinary kids - until they stumble onto local businessman Sidney Spangler's biggest secret. What starts as harmless hush money for candy and toys turns into something far more dangerous when the boys realize Sidney is mixed up in a scheme that could ruin the whole town.Determined to find out what's really going on, Freddy and Rusty follow Sidney to a secret meeting - and discover a shadowy operator named Mr. Smith, a land syndicate, and a plot to sabotage local businesses and buy up Oakcrest out from under everyone's feet. But eavesdropping on criminals has its risks, and when the boys are caught, Mr. Smith makes it clear that loose ends don't get to just walk away.Tied up in an abandoned house with a syndicate enforcer standing guard, Freddy and Rusty have to keep their heads - and hope somebody finds them before it's too late.The Little Blackmailers is an unproduced screenplay by Verland T Whipple, presented here in its original screenplay format along with a full plot synopsis. A small-town crime caper with real stakes, told through the eyes of two kids in over their heads.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When his elderly father is killed in a hit made to look like an accident, Army Lieutenant Eric Embrecht doesn't wait for the police to catch up.With his karate instructor Pahka at his side, Eric starts working his way up the local syndicate's chain of command - one dangerous man at a time - toward whoever gave the order. A police detective who suspects exactly what Eric is doing can't stop him, and the woman who loves him won't stay out of the danger no matter how many times he tells her to.As the trail leads higher and the stakes get sharper, Eric discovers that the people around him aren't always who he thinks they are - and that justice, once you start collecting it yourself, has a way of demanding everything you've got.Next on the List is a previously unproduced screenplay by Verland T Whipple, presented here in its original screenplay format along with a full plot synopsis. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some friends are worth finding. Some are better left lost.Martin Tyler flies into Los Angeles to track down a friend he hasn't seen in years - and within hours he's mistaken for a war hero he isn't, followed by a magazine writer with an agenda of her own, and jumped by a knife-wielding stranger in a dark alley.With no one else to trust, Martin hires private investigator Fitzpatrick McMurty: sharp, unflappable, and never without the stuffed raven perched on his office desk. Together they follow a trail of dead ends, double-crosses, and a decades-old fortune in stolen diamonds - straight into the path of a man who's been waiting a long time to collect what's owed him.Long Lost Friend is a previously unproduced screenplay by Verland T Whipple, presented here in its original screenplay format along with a full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She checked in as a guest. She almost never checked out.Margaret 'Maggie' Mallory buried a husband who died a cop, and she buried her old life along with him. But when Harry Wilburn, her late husband's partner, shows up asking for one impossible favor, she can't say no.An old man found half-dead in the desert keeps telling the same story: he was a guest at Bright New Horizons, the most exclusive retirement resort money can buy - and he escaped it to save his life. The resort's record is spotless. Its guests want for nothing. And Harry can't shake the feeling that something is very wrong behind those gates.So Margaret checks in under a false name, playing the part of a wealthy widow settling into her golden years. The staff are warm. The service is flawless. And beneath all of it is a secret that will kill her if she finds it - and kill her faster if she doesn't get out in time.Desert Resort is a tense, twist-filled screenplay from the estate of Verland T Whipple, presented here as a screenplay & full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A forgotten cavalry post hasn't seen real trouble in years - which suits the men just fine.Then a stranger rides in claiming to be their new commanding officer, warning of an Indian attack nobody else believes is coming, and turning a sleepy fort upside down with drills, discipline, and dead-serious orders.Major Marshall Horne isn't quite what he seems. Neither is the 'attack.' As tempers fray, loyalties splinter, and an old flame from Horne's past complicates everything further, one soldier's desperate gamble will decide whether Fort Deception survives the day - and whether anyone believes a word he says once it's over.A comedy-drama western about the last man anyone expected to save a fort, and the bluff of his life - from the unproduced screenplay archive of Verland T Whipple.This edition presents the original screenplay alongside a full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A world-famous soprano comes home to bury her father - and finds a house full of people who wanted him dead. When opera star Sarita Verdugo returns to Mexico City from a triumphant European tour, it's for the worst possible reason: her father, the wealthy and wheelchair-bound Ricardo Manuel Verdugo, has died in a fall from a remote mountainside pavilion. At her side is her American press agent and lover, Kenneth Davis. Waiting at home is her younger sister, Linda - twenty-five, plain, and worn down by years spent as their father's sole caretaker, quietly furious at the sister who got to leave. Grief doesn't get much room to breathe. The family chauffeur has his own theories about the old man's death, and no shortage of contempt for the people who employ him. A police lieutenant isn't satisfied the fall was an accident. The Verdugos' Great Dane, usually gentle, has started attacking without warning - and just as suddenly forgetting he ever did. And Linda has fallen for a mariachi trumpet player with plans of his own for the Verdugo fortune. As 'accidents' keep happening around the estate - a growling dog in the dark, a near-miss at the opera house, a late-night confrontation nobody survives - it becomes clear that whoever is orchestrating them is patient, careful, and already inside the house. The Fearmaker is Verland T Whipple's tightly wound screenplay of inheritance, obsession, and a killer hiding in plain sight - building to a reversal that turns everything the reader thought they knew about the Verdugo sisters inside out. This edition includes the complete original screenplay, formatted for reading, along with a full plot synopsis.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When drifter Cody Hays spots smoke rising over a lonely stretch of country, he never expects to find a young woman standing alone in the ashes of her burned home. Dusty Sheas has lost everything except a soot-blackened box she won't let out of her sight - and the story behind it. Cody brings her to the small town of Windridge, where a fresh start seems within reach: a new job with the local mining company, a room at the boarding house, and a growing spark between them. But Windridge holds its own tangle of secrets. A recovering friend's obsession grows more dangerous by the day. A bank officer's unwanted attention won't take no for an answer. And the local sheriff can't shake one question about a box that should have been too hot to touch. As old wounds and new dangers close in, one storm on the open road will force everything into the light - and test how far love can reach into a life that's never had a place to call its own. SCREENPLAY & SYNOPSIS This edition presents Verland T Whipple's original screenplay in its complete form, along with a full plot synopsis in the back matter.…