Campbell Scott
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement...
2) The shining
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.
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English
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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller’s masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with...
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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After her fiance calls off their marriage a week before the wedding. heartbroken Christine Hollister reluctantly agrees to accompany her friend Jessica to Peru to do volunteer work in an orphanage, where she meets American doctor Paul Cook.
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English
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"Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed history and led to Nixon's resignation. In forty-six hours of interviews with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them original and not in the presidential archives and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
13) Clinton
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A profile of former American president Bill CLinton.
Author
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Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Time Warner Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
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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...
16) Duma
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy in South Africa wants to return the cheetah he raised from a cub to the wild instead of allowing it to be placed in captivity.
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Parker, a brilliant writer with a razor-sharp tongue, shares a professional but intimate relationship with comic genius Robert Benchley. But when she meets Charlie McArthur, she falls hopelessly in love, a condition even literary genius can't seem to cure.
18) The dying Gaul
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
19) One week
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a young man is confronted with his mortality, he takes a cross-country road trip from Toronto to Vancouver Island on a vintage motorcycle. In search for himself, he finds out what makes this country, and his life, so beautiful.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In an extremely rare decision, the Catholic Church officially recognized the demonic possession of a 19 year-old college freshman. Told in terrifying flashbacks, it chronicles the haunting trial of the priest accused of negligence resulting in the death of the young girl believed to be possessed. Middle-aged single lawyer defends Father Moore, a priest on trial for the negligent homicide of a young girl named Emily Rose.