Tim Robbins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television ٢family.٣ But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a...
4) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A romantic comedy that focuses on two of Americas favorite pastimes - baseball and sex. A woman is utterly obsessed with baseball and each season takes a promising player and gives him the benefit of her experience. But when she tags "Nuke" LaLoosh, a pitcher with "a million-dollar arm and a five-cent head," his assigned mentor decides to intercede.
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 these groups--especially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang start acting suspiciously.
8) IQ
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A young mechanic falls in love with Albert Einstein's mathematician niece and the scientist schemes to make her fall in love with the mechanic.
9) Cadillac man
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A carsalesman's life becomes complicated, with a wife, a girl friend, and an armed gunman taking hostages at his car dealership.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A reclusive hearing-impaired woman forced to take a vacation finds a temporary job caring for an injured oil rig worker burned and blinded by an accident, over time the two develop an emotinal relathionship.
12) Bull Durham
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 1988.
Language
English
Description
American romantic comedy, dealing with a very minor minor-league team and three of its current constituents, an aging baseball groupie that beds one player each season, a cocky foolish new pitcher, and the older, weary catcher brought in to wise the rookie up.
13) Catch a fire
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
14) Dark waters
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
15) Nothing to lose
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
"Advertising executive Nick Beam has completely bottomed out. His career is a mess, his marriage is on the rocks and a fast-talking, would-be carjacker has just jumped into his car! So what does he do? Nick throws common sense out the window and turns the tables on his captor! Soon this mismatched pair speeds off on a comical crime spree that includes holdups, high-speed chases, and revenge!"--Container.
16) Noise
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A man loves his neighborhood in New York City, but can't stand the noise around him. He becomes a vigilante and goes after everyone from the next door neighbor to the mayor in order to get some peace and quiet.
17) A perfect day
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rescue workers in former Yugoslavia have a difficult day after the Yugoslav Wars.
18) Howard the duck
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A cigar-smoking beer-loving duck from a parallel universe winds up in Cleveland, where he falls for a rock singer while doing battle with the Dark Overlord in an effort to return to his own world.
19) Dead man walking
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the outrage that will follow her decision.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Characters and themes from Stephen King's multiple universes converge in the fictional town of Castle Rock. In season two a feud between warring clans comes to a boil when budding psychopath Annie Wilkes, nurse from hell, gets waylaid in Castle Rock. And as the town celebrates its 400th anniversary, Castle Rock's first settlers -- including Henry Deaver -- find themselves joining in the festivities.