Jay Russell
1) Ladder 49
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran of the Baltimore Fire Department under the watchful eye of his mentor Chief Mike Kennedy. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. As Jack reflects on his life - seeing his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, the impact his job has had on his wife and kids - Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save Jack's...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Present day Scotland. A tale is told to a couple of American tourists by a kindly gentleman in a pub. Angus is a lonely boy who pines for his father, who is serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate that has been billeted by soldiers in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. The troop's commander has an eye for mom, is suspicious about a mysterious handyman, Lewis, who is also a war...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra - special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret-- a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.
5) My dog Skip
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who says best friends have to be human? Not Willie Morris (Frankie Muniz), who receives a talented terrier named Skip for his birthday. With Skip's remarkable and unconventional help, Willie and Skip turn bullies into friends, tangle with hapless moonshiners, and even win the affections of the prettiest girl in school.
Series
Pub. Date
c[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nell's a newly single mom who wants this Christmas to be extra - special for her two kids. It turns out to be special, indeed, but it's not what she had in mind. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Chaos reigns in this entertaining comedy, and the notion of 'family' takes on a whole new meaning.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Angus, along with his sister and mother, live on an estate in the Scottish Highlands, near Loch Ness. Angus discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Celtic mythology. The creature befriends Angus and will eventually be known as the Loch Ness Monster. Trying to hide the dinosaur-like creature, nicknamed Crusoe, Angus enlists Lewis to transfer it to the lake, where boy and serpent have extraordinary adventures together until human stupidity...
8) My dog Skip
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in Mississippi in the late 1940s and based on Willie Morris' boyhood memoirs. Eight-year-old Willie loses his only friend in the world to the draft, until his mother gives him a puppy for his birthday.
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During the special time of growing up, children always need a special friend. Here are two of the best. My dog Skip is a memoir about a Jack Russell terrier who helps his young owner turn bullies into friends, outwit hapless moonshiners and even win the attention of the prettiest girl in school. Heroism is a dog named Shiloh in Shiloh 3 : Saving Shiloh, the concluding adventure in a series of three. The little beagle is a bundle of canine devotion--...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Benji the hunted (G) (1987) (89 min.): "Lost at sea and washed ashore in the rugged backwoods of North America, Benji inadvertently becomes the guardian to an orphaned little of cougar cubs. Together, they dodge untold perils from man and beast in an amazing odyssey to reach safety"--Back cover.
A dog's purpose (PG) (2017) (100 min.): "A devoted dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and...
11) Tuck everlasting
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and her domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Her magical summer begins when she meets Jesse Tuck. Jesse is full of life and adventure and Winnie falls in love. The Tuck family has a powerful secret - a spring that holds the magic of everlasting life. Now Winnie must choose whether she wants to live life as she knows it or drink from the spring.