Campbell Scott
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, this big, brilliant, profoundly observed novel by National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris explores the absurdities of modern life and one man's search for meaning.
Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist...
Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and an atheist...
4) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
[Full screen version].
Language
English
Description
The powerful tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and a courageous young boy named Xan. Xan faces the true test of love when he must cross the wilds of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home.
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her. The only problem is that Alex has not written a song in years, he has never written lyrics, and what's worse, he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days. Sophie Fisher...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of a 19 year-old college freshman. Told in terrifying flashbacks, it chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Middle-aged single lawyer defends Father Moore, a priest on trial for the negligent homicide of a young girl named Emily Rose.
10) The pilot's wife
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Kathryn Lyon's perfect life takes a jolting nose-dive after news of a fatal mid-air explosion aboard a plane piloted by her husband. The tension increases when the black box is recovered and reveals shocking rumors that the crash may have been caused by her husband. Could her husband have secretly been a terrorist? Was her entire life with him a lie?
Author
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Music and lyrics. Alex Fletcher is a washed-up 80s pop star who has been reduced to working the nostalgia circuit of county fairs and amusement parks. The charismatic and talented musician gets a chance at a comeback when reigning pop diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her.
Two weeks notice. Lucy Kelson is Chief Council for the Wade Corporation, one of New York City's top commercial real estate developers. She's a brilliant...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The black hole: Following a scientific mishap, mankind is faced with total annihilation as a threatening black hole appears over St. Louis. Now, time is running out to obliterate the black hole and the electricity feeding alien it has unleashed. Final days of planet Earth: An archaeologist discovers that aliens, posing as government officials, are secretly harvesting human bodies in an attempt to take over Earth. The last sentinel: In the future,...
Publisher
[United Stated]
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Supernova : One scientist has made a terrifying discovery; the sun is about to explode. Now one team of scientists race to stop the apocalypse while the rest of the world becomes a whirling, raging inferno.
Final days of planet earth: Lloyd Walker is an anti-heroic archaeologist who, after stumbling upon an alien conspiracy, becomes enmeshed in an against-all-odds battle to save the human race. From the enigmatic Room 86 to the doomed Pericles space...
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a small team of scientists on a clandestine transatlantic mission to deliver his country's most valuable military secret, a revolutionary radar component, not to the US government, but to a mysterious Wall Street tycoon, Alfred Lee Loomis.
17) Hug machine
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The hug machine is available to hug anyone, any time, whether they are square or long, spikey or soft.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After noticing that his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, Paul O'Rourke, a man with a troubled past, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.
19) Cell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...