Joan Allen
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
State of Terror follows Ellen Adams, a novice Secretary of State, who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Aaron Cross is an agent groomed by the government program that also unleashed Jason Bourne, but with a few new wrinkles. Cross is busy training in Alaska when he's caught in a tsunami of hurt, thus beginning a frantic search for answers to who and what he is.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A sharp-witted suburban wife is left alone to raise four headstrong daughters when her husband unexpectedly disappears. Things get even more hectic when she falls for her neighbor, an ex-baseball player turned radio DJ.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Imagine the world without our masterpieces. Interviews with eyewitnesses and historians and newsreel footage show how during World War II the Nazis systematically took or destroyed the art of Europe. It follows the heroic Europeans who first hid, and then set out to find and return what had been taken, with the help of the Allied forces "Monuments Men". It is work that continues to this day.
7) Death race
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Private corporations run most of the prisons across the U.S. for profit. Jensen Ames is framed for his wife's murder on the same day that the steel mill he works at closes. Ames is sent to prison where he is coerced by Hennessey, the sadistic prison warden, to drive a Ford Mustang and become known as the famous masked driver, Frankenstein. She tells Ames that she knows his baby was left in foster care, but that prisoners are freed upon winning five...
8) Yes
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Feeling trapped in her marriage to a politician, an American scientist begins an affair with a Lebanese surgeon who works as a chef in London. As the affair goes on the couple finds it difficult to put aside their very different beliefs.
9) Off the map
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bo, an 11-year-old girl, lives in a remote desert area of New Mexico, with her mother, a free spirit, and her father, who is losing a battle with depression. One day an IRS agent visits the family, to perform an audit, and decides that he would rather stay than return to his job. He becomes a catalyst for major changes and discoveries affecting every member of the family.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color, black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Narrates the remarkable journey of Hannah Senesh, a young Hungarian poet and diarist, paratrooper and resistance fighter. Told through Hannah's letters, diaries, poems, and the recollections of those who knew her, the film traces Hannah's life from childhood in Palestine to her daring WWII mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Narrated by Joan Allen.
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Language
English
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding. This time, inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Simon is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar which is an upgrade to Project Treadstone, by writing about it in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne sets up a meeting with Ross and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst...
12) Bonneville
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Faced with the decision of a lifetime, Arvilla Holden hijacks her two best friends and sets off in a vintage '66 Bonneville convertible across the great American West to deliver her husband's ashes to her step-daughter. What begins as a simple road trip for the trio, will end up becoming a chance to rediscover themselves, their friendship, the importance of promises and always living life to the fullest.
13) Manhunter
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy," he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
The heartwarming true story of a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station everyday 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 for his beloved master. During his daily visits he touched many lives and taught the local people about love, compassion, and above...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate American history and learn about the public and private lives of our Presidents; Senator Ted Kennedy and his dog, Splash, invite children on a typical whirlwind day on Capitol Hill; A little girl imagines what her day would be like if she were Madam President; The true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it. Supports early reading; leadership; history knowledge.
16) The crucible
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
17) Pleasantville
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (124 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.
18) Nixon
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (212 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A riveting look at a complex man, Richard Nixon, whose chance at greatness was ultimately destroyed by his passion for power--when his involvement in conspiracy jeopardized the nation's security and the presidency of the United States.
19) Room
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Once again, Jason Bourne emerges from hiding and into chaos. His return this time prompted inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross. Ross's writing is unveiling Operation Blackbriar--an upgrade to Project Treadstone--in a series of newspaper columns which have woken, and profoundly disturbed, Bourne's former masters. Bourne must uncover and eradicate the sources of their paranoia, before they eradicate him. Clawing his way out of madness,...