Scott Alexander
1) Goosebumps
Language
English
Formats
Description
After going to a new small town,the teenager boy Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange... he is a prisoner of his own imagination...
2) 1408
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project. Defying the warnings of...
3) Ed Wood
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed worst movie director of all time. Wood was the auteur behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Cody Banks is just your typical teen, but he has one secret - he is a teen CIA agent. His assignment is to befriend a school classmate to get to her dad, who is unknowingly helping an evil organization. Can he complete his mission and get the girl?
Cody Banks es solamente un joven típico, pero tiene un secreto - es un agente joven de la CIA. Su tarea es hacerse amigo de una compañera de clase para llegar a su papá, quien ayuda sin saberlo una...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of the lawyers, it explores the chaotic dealings behind closed doors and how prosecution overconfidence, defense shrewdness and shocking courtroom twists led to one of the most earth-shattering verdicts of all time. It is based on the best-selling book The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin.
6) Screwed
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Desperate for a payback from Miss Crock, his boss from hell, Willard (MacDonald) enlists the help of his hotheaded best friend Rusty (Chappelle) to dognap her precious pooch and hold it for ransom. But when the dog escapes and Miss Crock thinks Willard's the one being held for a price, they get help from the creepy and crazy mortician Grover Cleaver (DeVito) to cash in on the payoff.
7) Auto focus
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bob Crane became well known as the star of the comedy hit series "Hogan's Heroes." With fame and success, Crane drove headfirst into the darker, destructive side of celebrity life. He eventually teamed with a video technician who helped him document his numerous sexploits. But when his fast living got out of control, the end result was a brutal murder that remains one of Hollywood's most scandalous unsolved mysteries.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Siamese cat saunters into the hideout of two bank robbers, their hostage scratches a plea for help on her wristwatch and places it around the cat's neck. When the cat returns home wearing the clue, the F.B.I., two sisters, their boyfriends and a neighbor get involved in the case.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Zach moves to a small town and realizes his new neighbor, Hannah, is in danger. When he tries to rescue her, he accidentally unleashes the monsters that are characters in the books of her writer father R.L. Stine. Zach, Hannah, and Stine must get the monsters back into the books.
10) 1408
Language
English
Description
Renowned horror novelist Mike Enslin only believes what he can see with his own two eyes. After a string of bestsellers discrediting paranormal events in the most infamous haunted houses and graveyards around the world, he scoffs at the concept of an afterlife. Enslin's phantom-free run of long and lonely nights is about to change forever when he checks into suite 1408 of the notorious Dolphin Hotel for his latest project. Defying the warnings of...
12) Big eyes
Language
English
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
13) Ed Wood
Pub. Date
c1994, [2004]
Language
English
Description
A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the once voted worst movie director of all time. Wood was the mind behind Glen or Glenda? and Plan 9 from outer space, and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled.
14) Problem child
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A good-natured man and his social-climbing wife adopt a seven-year-old boy to brighten their lives. But Junior soon turns ordinary events into comic nightmares.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When a Siamese cat saunters into the hideout of two bank robbers, their hostage scratches a plea for help on her wristwatch and places it around the cat's neck. When the cat returns home wearing the clue, the F.B.I., two sisters, their boyfriends and a neighbor get involved in the case.