David Morse
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A military space probe, sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere, is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorizes the residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn infant. The United States government is forced to mobilize Project Wildfire, a top-secret emergency response protocol....
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Language
English
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Grandpa and Noah are sitting on a bench in a square that keeps getting smaller every day. The square is strange but also familiar, full of the odds and ends that have made up their lives: Grandpa's work desk, the stuffed dragon that Grandpa once gave to Noah, the sweet-smelling hyacinths that Grandma loved to grow in her garden. As they wait together on the bench, they tell jokes and discuss their shared love of mathematics. Grandpa recalls what it...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration into the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership. Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the man make the times or do the times make the man? In Leadership in Turbulent Times, Goodwin draws upon...
5) 16 blocks
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A hard-drinking, has-been cop faces obstacles when he is assigned the task of transporting a witness from the jail to the courthouse so he can testify against members of the NYPD.
7) McCanick
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a criminal is released from prison, a narcotics detective starts a manhunt to keep the criminal from revealing details about the detective's true past.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Rebels in a politically volitile Latin American country have kidnapped Alice Bowman's husband for ransom-- 3 million. Terry Thorne is the hostage retrieval expert who becomes Alice's only hope in navigating a high-stacks game where terrorists value money over life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, which tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
10) Disturbia
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme, New Orleans' protagonists strive to build their own legacy...
12) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Selma, a factory worker in rural America and single mother, is losing her eyesight from a hereditary disease. Determined to protect her 10-year-old son from the same fate, Selma is saving her money to get him an operation. In the evenings, Selma escapes by rehearsing for a production of The sound of music with her best friend. When a neighbor betrays her trust, Selma's life spirals out of control and the lines between reality and fantasy blur.
14) Trouble
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Aging siblings fight over the rights to their father's land.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
16) The Langoliers
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ten passengers on a plane are forced to make an emergency landing after time has stopped and they discover that no one else in the world exists, except for the evil creatures that are coming after them.
17) The boy
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a lonely brooding boy meets a mysterious drifter, he begins to give in to his darker impulses.
18) The green mile
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When John Coffey arrives on the death row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary, the prison guards discover that he has mysterious powers hidden within him.
19) Bait
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Convinced that Alvin Sanders, a small-time crook, will lead them to 43 million dollars in stolen gold, U.S. Treasury agents implant a bug and let him go.
20) Crazy in Alabama
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
In 1965, a backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe encounters the harsh realities of the adult world through two murders--his eccentric Aunt's beheading of her husband and the killing of a young black man by a racist sheriff.