Lindsay Crouse
Author
Series
Petra Connor novels volume 2
Formats
Description
Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. Once again Petra is at the center of the action. After investigating a drive by shooting in L.A. Petra follows her instincts to follow a possible eyewitness whose life is in danger. Meanwhile departmental politics threaten to sabotage her case, and her personal life isn't much better. Further complicating things a whiz-kid grad student is...
3) Brave Irene
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Plucky Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, braves a fierce snowstorm to deliver a new gown to the duchess in time for the ball.
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal...until the morning when she looked in the back yard...
5) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
7) Communion
Pub. Date
1989
Description
One man's riveting story of his unparalleled encounter with the unknown. Based on true experiences with visitors who did not appear to be human.
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Amidst the adventure, hardships, and excitement of her teenage years on the Dakota prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder puts pen to paper and begins to document her extraordinary life. Laura matures from young girl to woman, making sacrifices to help her family survive. She also meets her loving husband, Almanzo Wilder, and together with their daughter, Rose, they set off on their own pioneer adventure in Missouri.
9) Iceman
Pub. Date
c1984
Description
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about man's past. Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state. When the Iceman becomes part of their lives, the results are both moving and emotionally shattering.
11) The verdict
Description
An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
12) Prefontaine
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
Biographical film on the tragically short life of american track and field star Steve Prefontaine, who died in a car wreck at the age of 24 just before the 1976 Olympics.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
14) Jumanji
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Jumanji. When Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its powers until he is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
The Indian in the cupboard. On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little...
15) Slap Shot
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The story of the player/coach of a fading hockey team who finds a way to keep it going.
16) The arrival
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sylvester and the magic pebble: On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. When a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish, with results he hasn't expected.
The amazing bone: Pearl couldn't be a nicer pig. Touched by spring, she dawdles in the dandelions and exudes an infectious love for life. Then she happens upon a talking bone that used to belong to a witch. On the way home the bone manages...
18) The insider
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
19) Impostor
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Spencer John Olham, is a respected government scientist in the year 2079 trying to devise a secret weapon that will help his fellow humans win a decade-long war against invading aliens that are cloning human subjects and using the replicas as walking time bombs. Suddenly, Olham is accused of being an alien spy and a nationwide manhunt to capture him ensues. With even his doctor wife unsure that she can trust him, Olham must uncover the truth on his...
20) House of Games
Series
Criterion collection volume 399
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A therapist and best-selling author must confront her own demons when she meets a man who has gambling debts and she feels compelled to help him.