John Briley
1) Tai-Pan
Pub. Date
2003?
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dirk Struan is the savage Scottish leader of the dominant merchant chiefs, or Tai-Pans, who trade the South China Sea. His goals are to make Hong Kong the greatest merchant empire of all, to take his slave for his lady, and to make China his glorious new world.
Author
Description
This is the touching account of Father Damien who went to the Hawaiian island of Molokai in 1872 to minister to the lepers exiled in a labor colony. He became widely known as the "Apostle of the Lepers" or "The Leper Priest" because of the care and sacrifice he made for those forgotten people . Based on a true story.
3) Enigma
Author
Description
A C.I.A. Agent tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence to stop a murderous diabolical plot.
4) Gandhi
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (191 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chronicles the life of Gandhi beginning with his political activities in South Africa during the late 1890's and ending with his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948. Shows the development of his philosophy of non-violence as he leads the people of India to independence from the British.