Joan Allen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With fierce intelligence and emotional intensity, Alice Sebold brings us a searing portrait of a mother-daughter bond that descends into murder. Clair and Helen Knightly are a parent and child locked in a relationship so unrelenting that they have become the center of each other's worlds. But as this novel opens, Helen crosses a boundary she never thought she would approach. And while her act is almost unconscious, it somehow seems like the fulfillment...
Author
Publisher
Propriometrics Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
As seen on the Today Show, Dynamic Aging isn't that same old senior fitness, senior stretching, senior strength book you've seen again and again. This book is about using simple exercises to feel better and get back to living vitally no matter your age.
Don't blame your age if you're feeling creaky. It could just be the way you're using (or not using) your body. ―Washington Post on Dynamic Aging as a Book for the Ages
Movement is a powerful tool...
5) Face/off
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sean Archer is a tough and rugged FBI Agent. He is still grieving for his dead son, Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is now his sworn enemy and happens to be the very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. Archer corners Castor. Their fight knocks Troy out cold. Archer finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. The only other person who knows the bomb's location is Casor's...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Rickover built the world's first commercial nuclear power plant at Shippingport, PA. Rickover's achievements made him into a national celebrity, and he appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Many questioned Rickover's goal of an all nuclear navy, and others questioned his creation of a technocratic elite, his own navy within the Navy.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
p1993, 2000
Language
English
Description
This heart-warming film is based on the true story of a young boy who is a chess prodigy and his father, who attempts to walk the fine line between encouraging his son's talent, and preserving the love they have for each other.
8) Room
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
9) Ethan Frome
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
A classic love triangle, set in 19th century rural New England.
10) A good marriage
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With a serial killer on the loose and a stranger stalking her family, a dedicated wife unveils a sinister secret about her husband that threatens their marriage and lives.
11) Manhunter
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A retired detective is coaxed back to catch a serial killer known as "The Tooth Fairy."
12) The crucible
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
13) Face/off
Language
English
Description
FBI Special Agent Sean Archer is trying to find a biological weapon that has been placed in Los Angeles by the sadistic terrorist-for-hire and criminal mastermind Castor Troy. Archer has been hunting Troy for the last 8 years and is consumed by revenge because Troy is responsible for the death of Archer's son. To do this, Archer must 'borrow' Troy's face using a surgical procedure to go undercover as Troy, but things go wrong when Troy assumes the...
14) It's the rage
Publisher
Key DVD
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint.
Publisher
Weston Woods Studios
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents ; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill ; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President ; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Suports early reading; leadership ; history knowledge.
16) Bonneville
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Enterrtainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband's ashes to her step-daughter. What begins as a simple road trip for the trio, will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises and always living life to the fullest.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Celebrates Preston Tucker as the ultimate believer in the American dream. Tucker, builder of the 1948 Tucker Torpedo car, is a dynamic designer and an enthusiastic showman who envision the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's other three automobile manufacturers.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Teenager Samantha Hughes of Hopewell, KY is pretty, headstrong and curious about the father she never knew and about the war that took him away. The war nobody wants to remember. This story is about a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece struggling to heal the wounds of Vietnam. The film captures the horror of battle and the disillusionment of a soldier who thought war meant glory and discovers it also means both pain and fear.