James Frain
1) Architect
Author
Language
English
Description
When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of an uncompromising modernist architect, who proceeds to build HIS dream house instead of theirs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiance for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion, and much more.
Language
English
Description
Upon release from a stint in prison, Rudy impulsively decides to pose as his old cell mate Nick in order to make time with Nick's beautiful penpal Ashley. But Rudy's ruse blows up when he realizes that Ashley was doublecrossing Nick ... and now he's inescapably part of an armed robbery plot being hatched by her evil brother.
10) Titus
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a victorious Roman general whose rigid code of honor and duty proves to be his downfall. A shocking journey into the depths of the human heart, a place where vengeance and passion reign supreme.
11) Gallows thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding historical drama about an ex-soldier in 1820s London who must help rescue an innocent man from Death Row, by bestselling author Bernard Cornwell It is the end of the Napoleonic Wars and England has just fought its last victorious battle against the French. As Rider Sandman and the other heroes of Waterloo begin to make their way back to England, they find a country where corruption, poverty, and social unrest run rampant, and where...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This videodisc presents the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40 year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn, the series delves in to Henry's most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.
13) Intruders
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A chilling paranormal tale about an evil secret society devoted to chasing immortality by taking refuge in the bodies of the living. Add to this a sinister agent bent on executing the unlucky to cover his crimes and a ten-year-old girl who picks the most dangerous moment to run away from home.
14) Arabian nights
Language
English
Description
A legendary heroine, Scheherazade, saves her kingdom and her own life by seducing her husband Schahriar's imagination with the fantastical tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and other larger-than-life heroes, warriors and djinns.
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Vince Faraday is an honest cop on a corrupt police force. But when he's framed for murder and presumed dead, he finds that he must go into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana, and son, Trip. Determined to battle the criminals who now control his hometown, Vince takes the law into his own hands and becomes The Cape - his son's favorite comic book superhero.
17) Transit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The camping trip was meant to reunite the Sidwell family--it's not. When they are hunted and terrorized by violent bank robbers, their very survival will depend on working together.
18) Empire
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mini-series about Octavius and Marc Anthony's struggle to control ancient Rome following Julius Caesar's assassination.
19) Alpha alert
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist attack on Washington D.C. leaves three war veterans who are suffering from PTSD trapped in an elevator together, the isolation and highly stressful situation brings previous wartime experiences to the surface, and while dark forces are at work outside the elevator, a battle for control and survival ensues inside.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.
In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play's tragic conclusion.
Staring Ray Fearon as Othello, James Frain as Iago and