Bonnie Bedelia
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A successful motivational speaker learns the true meaning of Christmas when she is rescued from a near-fatal accident by a stranger. This close encounter leads her to discover that helping others is not only the key to true success but just might lead her to find true love.
3) The hill
Language
English
Description
The inspiring true story of Rickey Hill, the small-town son of a traveling pastor. A sandlot baseball phenom, Rickey defiantly overcomes his physical disabilities and father's persistent worry for his health, to fulfill his dream of playing professional baseball and ultimately transforming his connection with his father.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof. Join some of the best actors on television for a genuinely funny and heartwarming journey through the most challenging and rewarding role of a lifetime: being a parent.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof. Join some of the best actors on television for a genuinely funny and heartwarming journey through the most challenging and rewarding role of a lifetime: being a parent.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
John McClane is off-duty on Christmas Eve in the nation's capital when a team of terrorists, in town to rescue a drug lord from justice, has taken over a major international airport, holding thousands of travelers hostage. Amidst a blinding blizzard, McClane must race against time to defeat the terrorists and their murderous leader while also contending with an inept airport police chief, the stubborn head of the Army's anti-terrorist squad, and the...
8) Die hard
Language
English
Description
John McClane, a New York cop, flies to L.A. on Christmas Eve to visit his wife at a party in her company's lavish high-rise. Plans change once a group of terrorists, led by Hans Gruber, seize the building and take everyone hostage. McClane slips away and becomes the only chance anyone has in this beginning-to-end heart-stopping action thriller.
"John McClane, policier new-yorkais, est venu rejoindre sa femme Holly, dont il est separé depuis plusieurs...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Completely re-edited, the New Folger Library edition of Shakespeare's plays puts readers in touch with current ways of thinking about Shakespeare. Each freshly edited text is based directly on what the editors consider the best early printed version of the play.
Language
English
Description
Rusty Sabich's been swept up in an obsessive affair with a coworker in the prosecutor's office. When she is murdered, he's asked to lead the investigation. Then, astonishingly, he's accused of the crime. He's the perfect suspect and his fight to clear his name pulls him into a whirlpool of lies and secrets.
11) Die hard
Language
English
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Description
New York detective John McClane has just arrived in Los Angeles to spend Christmas with his family. As he waits for his estranged wife's office Christmas party to break up, German terrorists occupy the building, and McClane wages a one-man war to stop them.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the man convicted of killing her parents has his sentence pardoned, Jody, a Midwestern twenty-something, begins to question the facts behind her parents' deaths and gradually faces the possibility that the wrong man was convicted of the crime. The further Jody delves into the past, she is forced to revisit old wounds.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the remote desert of New Mexico, “The Manhattan Project” is materializing – the World War II effort to build the atomic bomb. **Oscar**-winner Paul Newman (*Hud*, *Nobody’s Fool*) stars as General Leslie Groves, the military man in charge of a massive project that will produce two weapons: “Fat Man” and “Little Boy.” Nominated for the Golden Berlin Bear at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"A singular, powerful experience."...
16) Die hard
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
High above the city of Los Angelos, a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has managed to escape detection, an off-duty cop. He's alone, tired, and the only chance anyone has.
17) Speechless
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
It was a match made in heaven ... almost. Two witty, intelligent insomniacs, Kevin and Julia, meet over the last box of sleeping pills at an all-night convenience store and are immediately attracted. They share an evening of passion and discover that they have a lot in common ... maybe too much in common.
18) Salem's Lot
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Into the sleepy little hamlet of Salem's Lot comes a stranger who unleashes an insidious evil so devastating it threatens to destroy the entire town and everyone in it. Ben Mears, a young novelist, returns home to Salem's Lot, determined to write a book about the eerie old Marsten House which overlooks the town. It is Mears' conviction that the source of all the trouble is the house itself, which he believes attracts evil to it. With the help of his...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
New York detective Lt. John McClane is the only hope when terrorists seize a Los Angeles high-rise and take hostages; McClane battles a team of terrorists holding thousands of holiday passengers hostage at the airport in Washington, D.C.; McClane is the target of a psychopathic terrorist planning to blow up New York City if he does not get what he wants; McClane must stop a criminal from bringing down the country's computer infrastructure.