Nathaniel Parker
1) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The second Fowl Twins adventure, a spinoff of the blockbuster Artemis Fowl series, starts with a bang—literally.
Artemis's little brothers Myles and Beckett borrow the Fowl jet without permission, and it ends up as a fireball over Florida. The twins plus their fairy minder, the pixie-elf hybrid Lazuli Heitz, are lucky to escape with their lives.
The Fowl parents and fairy police force decide that enough is enough and the twins are placed
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Suave, sophisticated Detective Inspector Lynley and his prickly, plebian sidekick Detective Sergeant Havers are back with two new gripping mysteries in this sixth and final series. But with Lynley struggling to cope with his wife's death -- and Havers struggling with her partner's heavy drinking -- will they be able to focus on solving crime?
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Letterbox
Language
English
Description
Lynley and Havers are assigned to a new case back in London, following the discovery of a body floating in the Thames. The victim, Eric Ramsey, was a doorkeeper at the House of Lords. On closer inspection, it appears that he has been savagely beaten, having had his hands tied behind his back. Initially, it looks as if the murder may be connected to Ramsey's gambling debts, but when a Clerk at the House of Lords is also murdered, events seem to point...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Pairing aristocratic detective Thomas Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) with his working-class partner Barbara Havers (Sharon Small), the British series chronicles the Scotland Yard duo's efforts to crack difficult cases while dealing with each other's class differences. This collection presents all four episodes of the series' third season: in "In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner," Lynley and Havers investigate a possible grudge-killing when the daughter of...
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Natural causes: While Lynley is suspended, pending the outcome of his disciplinary hearing, Havers teams up with a different Detective Inspector, Fiona Knight, to investigate the drowning of a young woman in her car.
One guilty deed: Lynley is reinstated, and he, Havers, and their colleague Detective Constable Winston Nkata are trying to catch a crime boss. But when their star witness is found shot dead at Havers' childhood holiday retreat, she becomes...
11) Stardust
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen [ed.].
Language
English
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
12) Bleak house
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
Two innocent young orphans are the potential heirs to a fortune. Their fates are snarled in a monumental legal battle known as Jarndyce and Jarndyce. Another orphan, Esther Summerson, whose mysterious parentage proves to be intertwined with the fate of the Jarndyce wards and the aloof Lady Dedlock. Lady Dedlock faces the revelation of her dark past once Mr. Tulkinghorn catches wind of it. The icily beautiful Esther's background also comes to light...