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Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity-and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the new marshal in town needs volunteers, one of the first to sign up is Miss Rosie Decker. And why wouldn't she? She's a sharpshooting, horse-taming tomboy—and she's out for revenge. Marshal Hank Walker is forming a posse to find the man who killed her sweetheart, and Rosie is determined to help track him down. When the marshal refuses her service on account of her being a woman, Rosie is undeterred. If it's a man Marshal Walker wants,
...Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
An evil elf prince breaks an ancient pact between humans and creatures. He declares war against humanity. He is on a mission to release The Golden Army, a deadly group of fighting machines that can destroy the human race. As war is ready to erupt, Hellboy and his team of paranormal outcasts prepare to face off with the forces of darkness in the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into Captain America, a Super Soldier. Now, as Captain America, Rogers joins forces with Bucky Barnes and Peggy Carter to wage war on the evil HYDRA organization, led by the villainous Red Skull.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Brooklyn Wainwright is thrilled to be appearing on the San Francisco edition of the hit TV show This Old Attic as a rare-book expert and appraiser. Her first subject is a very valuable first-edition copy of the classic children's story The Secret Garden,which is owned by a flower vendor named Vera. Once she hears what her book is worth, Vera is eager to have Brooklyn recondition it for resale. But after the episode airs, a furious man storms onto...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Technological advances have escalated Cold War tensions to an all-time high, and undercover KGB operatives Elizabeth and Philip Jennings face the growing threat of discovery. As their assignments grow more deadly, their family is in more danger, and their loyalties are tested like never before.
Author
Publisher
E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc
Pub. Date
c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
10) Wicker Park
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unbeknownst to Matthew, is an actress named Alex, who may hold the key to Lisa's original...
11) Night probe!
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Bantam reissue ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery...
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Creature teachers Chris and Martin Kratt will take families along on extraordinary animal-powered adventures. The show transforms the Kratt Brothers into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real-life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little-seen habitats and showcase key science concepts.
14) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This is a film about the conflict between nature and grace, the agonizing mystery of God, and the meaning of life itself. The death of his brother forces Jack O'Brien to confront his past, which is dominated by his difficult relationship with his father. Jack's father was a stern authoritarian whose no-nonsense demeanor masked a host of unfulfilled dreams. His mother was a gentle, kind woman who often allowed her own needs and desires to give way...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
The crew of Sandpiper Air and their friends and family at Tom Nevers Field return for more laughs, more romance, more rivalry and more surprises. In this season, millionaire Davis Lynch steals Helen's heart; Lowell gets together with and divorces Bunny the same day; Joe dates a 19-year-old; an old, old flame returns to woo Fay; and Brian and Alex's relationship gets even rockier. Finally, in the shocking season finale, the romance between Joe and...
17) Get Smart
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Maxwell Smart is bumbling Agent 86 of Control, the secret agency created to fight the evil KAOS organization. Invariably, Smart's bumbling style lands him in hot water. Luckily, Agent 99 is there to bail him out.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Continues to chronicle life and death in Chicago's County General hospital emergency room. Portrays the plight of medical students in their quest to become physicians. Healing is teamwork and science with instant decisions and best guesses to be made. Joy one moment, tragedy the next, but always a 24/7 readiness.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Television series about the work and lives of a group of emergency room doctors in Chicago. In this season, Carter's playful office love affair becomes a 24/7 crisis; Kovac's partying affects his performance; Weaver is promoted to a position outside the ER-- but Romano replaces her; Kovac and Carter decide it's time for a change and opt for assignment in Africa.
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