Guillermo del Toro
1) The strain
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world. At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold. A terrifying...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Spanish Civil War. Ofelia and her pregnant mother, Carmen, have come to live with her mother's new husband in a forest north of Spain. Ofelia is afraid of her new stepfather, whom she has nicknamed "The Wolf," and worries that he will hurt her mother. In the forest she encounters a small twiglike creature that she knows immediately is actually a fairy. She follows it through the forest, where she meets a half-man, half-goat creature, the Faun. He...
4) Trollhunters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
320 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors? It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These facts are unpleasant but useful. There are things out there,...
6) Pacific Rim
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes: a washed-up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner. Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent, turned suddenly violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting was self-defense, but she is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. What most troubles her isn't the tragedy itself-- it's the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing Leppo's body after his death. Questioning her future...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (586 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil, Jim is determined to save the world, right after gym class. A must-see original series for the entire family.
10) Oscura
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
As New World vampires go to war with Old World vampires over an ancient book containing the entire history and darkest secrets of the vampires, Eph Goodweather and his team seek to stop the vampiric plague and the monsters it has created.
11) Cronos
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an antique dealer finds a 400-year-old device that makes the user younger and promises eternal life, he discovers that its powers come with a heavy price.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
263 pages, one unnumbered page : illustrations (some color) ;hardcover 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Over the last two decades, writer-director Guillermo del Toro has mapped out a territory in the popular imagination that is uniquely his own, astonishing audiences with Cronos, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, and a host of other films and creative endeavors. Now, for the first time, del Toro reveals the inspirations behind his signature artistic motifs, sharing the contents of his personal notebooks, collections, and other obsessions. The result is a startling,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
319 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Language
Vietnamese
Description
“Cháu không nên vào trong này. Cháu có thể đi lạc mất. Trước đây đã có chuyện như vậy xảy ra rồi. Một ngày nào đó, nếu cháu muốn, cô sẽ kể cho cháu nghe câu chuyện đó.” Trong những câu chuyện cổ tích, luôn có người đàn ông và con sói, có quái thú và bậc cha mẹ đã qua đời, có cô gái và khu rừng. Ofelia biết tất cả những điều này, giống như bất...
15) Hellboy
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the 1940s, the Third Reich has joined forces with the evil Grigori Rasputin, who has used his occult powers to summon up a demon from the depths of Hell. However, the demonic creature is captured by American forces, and put in the care of Professor Broom. Under Broom's care, Hellboy develops the desire to do good. Sixty years later he takes action as part of an elite secret defense team alongside Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapian, an aquatic humanoid...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself.
18) The orphanage
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...
19) Pacific Rim
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (Blu-ray) (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.