Richard Gere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
After being stranded in a desert after a crash, a pilot comes in contact with a captivating little prince who recounts his journey from planet to planet and his search for what is most important in life. For over sixty-five years Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic, The Little Prince, has captured readers' hearts. The whimsical story with a fairy tale feel has sold over 3 million copies in all formats. This exciting pop-up edition includes the complete...
2) Amelia
Language
English
Description
Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate...
3) Arbitrage
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Robert Miller is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all: money, power, a loving wife, and a devoted daughter working by his side. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is running on borrowed time, trying to unload his crippled trading company before his frauds are revealed. A deadly error throws Miller's life into a tailspin, raising the suspicions of a detective and threatening the future of his financial empire.
4) Unfaithful
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Connie Sumner lives in the New York City suburbs with a loving husband and wonderful child but longs for more; she begins an affair with a mysterious young man and soon her husband senses that she is hiding something from him and takes matters into his own hands.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After the tragic death of her parents five years ago, Olivia returns to her hometown with her new husband, Luke and reconnects with her parent's old family friend, Franny. The couple are then forced to navigate the all-consuming interest of this powerful, mysterious, and possessive philanthropist.
6) Maybe I do
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Michelle and Allen are considering the "big" next step in their relationship, marriage. When they invite their parents to finally meet, it turns out the parents already know one another quite well, which leads to wildly differing opinions about the value of tying the knot.
Language
English
Description
Adrienne Willis is a woman with her life in chaos. She retreats to the small coastal town in the Outer Banks where she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs. She has a wayward husband who has asked to come home and a teen-aged daughter who resents her every decision. Upon arrival, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives. Paul is the only guest at the inn, and he is facing his own crisis of conscience....
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This documentary tells the story of the Buddha's life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. It features the work of some of the world's greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha's life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists, including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Even after his master passed away, he continued to return to the same spot at the station every day for the next nine years to wait. During his daily visits he touched many lives and taught the local people about love, compassion, and, above all, unyielding loyalty....
10) The Jackal
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Jackal--the greatest assassin in history--out to eliminate a top U.S. government official. Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned underground operative, is the only man who can stop him. Now, the Deputy Director of the FBI is taking the biggest risk of all...he's releasing one criminal to stop another.
12) Shall we dance?
Language
English
Description
A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
13) Primal fear
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
14) Time out of mind
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
George is a man whose struggle to find food and a place to sleep in New York City is beautifully captured with remarkable realism and heartrending compassion. Shuffled into the unforgiving bureaucracy of a men's shelter, George seems destined to wind up as just another lost soul swallowed up by the system, until he meets a gregarious, down-and-out ex-jazzman who inspires George to reconnect with his estranged daughter.
17) Runaway bride
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An unlikely love story developes when a cynical, big-city columnist comes to a small town to cover the story of Maggie Carpenter, a bride who's left men at the altar several times.
18) The Cotton Club
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
19) The Benefactor
Language
English
Formats
Description
Golden Globe-winning actor Richard Gere (*Chicago, Pretty Woman*) and Dakota Fanning (*The Twilight Saga, Coraline*) star with Theo James (*Divergent*) in this mysterious drama that follows a philanthropist who meddles in the lives of a newly-married couple in an attempt to relive his past. Nominated for Best Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival** "*...A surprising and graceful first fiction feature for writer-director Andrew Renzi*."...