Anonymous
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Arthurian legends have long been the source of countless popular tales. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" is one of the best known and most widely read. During King Arthur's New Year's celebration, a mysterious knight, with green clothes and horse, arrives with a challenge to the knights of the round table-any one of them may swing at the Green Knight with an axe if he too is willing to take a blow one year and one day after. Gawain, one of Arthur's...
42) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Beowulf is one of the most universally studied of the English classics, and considered to be the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
The title character is a warrior with superhuman strength who honors his king by performing glorious deeds, the first of which is to rescue the royal house of Denmark from two violent monsters. After killing them, he returns triumphantly and rules his people wisely as their King...
43) Jay's Journal
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything. He was wrong. When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...
45) Jay's journal
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010, c1979
Edition
1st Simon Pulse pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A withdrawn adolescent boy's initiation into the occult draws him ever deeper into the bizarre world of witchcraft, voodoo, and satanism until, at age sixteen, he commits suicide.
48) Little red wagon
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Based on the inspirational true story of eight-year-old Zack Bonner on his quest to change the world with nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon. When Zack sets out to help the homeless children in America in the wake of Hurricane Charley, by walking across the country, he must overcome bureaucrats and blisters and capture the hearts of his family and the entire nation.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A gripping memoir of bravery and sacrifice by a young woman whose escape from her abusive family and an oppressive culture in Saudi Arabia captivated the world
In early 2019, after three years of careful planning, Rahaf Mohammed finally escaped her abusive family in Saudi Arabia—but made it only to Bangkok before being stripped of her passport. If forced to return home, she was sure she would be killed, like other
...50) The tomorrow man
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come, and Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other's stuff.
51) Babel
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Language
English
Description
A wealthy American is touring Morocco with his wife. The two become the focus of an international incident also involving a poor Moroccan farmer who is struggling to keep his two young sons in line and his family together. A San Diego nanny, with her employers absent, makes the disastrous decision to take her charges with her to a wedding in Mexico. A deaf-mute Japanese teen tries to deal with a relationship with her father and the world in general...
52) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
53) Scenic route
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mitchell and Carter, life-long friends who have drifted apart, are on a road trip when their old pickup breaks down, leaving them stranded on an isolated desert road. what begins as an inconvenience becomes a very real life or death struggle.
54) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
56) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
58) The beaver
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
59) The wife
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The story of the couple's youthful passion and ambition interwoven with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later, a lifetime's shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love.
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia Music Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Full concert performance shot in Los Angeles during her international tour to highlight the release of B'day on her 25th birthday. Concert selections include hits from Dangerously in love & B'day, Destiny's Child classics and Dreamgirls. Guest appearances include superstars Jay-Z, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williames.