Hope Davis
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Dr. Marina Singh, a research scientist with a Minnesota pharmaceutical company, is sent to the Amazon to find her former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson, who seems to have disappeared while working on a new drug. No one knows where Dr. Swenson is, and the last person sent to find her died before completing his mission. Plagued by trepidation, Marina embarks on an odyssey in hopes of finding answers. Now in her seventies, the uncompromising Dr. Swenson...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
6) Divisadero
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire...
Author
Language
English
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Description
It is 1916 and a woman awakens in a field hospital in France. She wears a British nurse's aide's uniform but has an American accent. With no memory of her past, she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, and that her name is Stella Bain. While she tends the wounded, the gaps in Stella's psyche plague her. Desperate to find answers, she sets off for London, where she is taken in by Dr. August Bridge, a surgeon who becomes fascinated with her bizarre...
Author
Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young investment banker dies under suspicious circumstances, FBI agent John O'Hara pursues a suspicion that the victim's beautiful bride is responsible.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad’s (Michael Caine) illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife’s edge between...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--
Author
Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Time Warner Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of The beach house and Kiss the girls comes a sizzling new thriller. When a number of rich men come to a mysterious end, and a young investment banker dies of a supposed heart attack, FBI agent John O'Hara believes it is the work of a cold-blooded killer. Turning his eye to the only witness - the young banker's beautiful and secretive widow - O'Hara thinks he's closing in, but he's not sure whether he's pursuing justice or his own...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A married couple, who are both dentists, begin having marital problems when the husband suspects his wife is having an affair. His jealousy has him having dreams that border between fantasy and reality and the whole family is affected by the problems.
"A powerful examination of contemporary family life."--Los Angeles Daily News
"An interesting and sometimes bitterly amusing film."--Newark Star-Ledger
"The Secret Lives of Dentists has emotional...
13) Rebel in the rye
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Kevin Spacey & Nicholas Hoult star in the tale of the literary genius behind the masterpiece Catcher in the Rye and the mentor who helped change American culture forever.
14) Arlington Road
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of thise groups--expecially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.
16) The matador
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a facilitator of fatalities, and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his touch as a reliable hit-man, Julian needs Danny's help with...
18) Your honor
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
19) Charlie Bartlett
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
When Charlie Bartlett moves to town, his honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist' among Western Summit High's students. Along with fellow student Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the occasional prescription to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice.
20) About Schmidt
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
A man upon retirement embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.