Will Patton
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Pioneer homesteaders facing drought and debt give way to modern-day hippies trying to lose themselves in the vanishing wilderness and real estate developers out to make a buck-unforgettable characters in nine stories that range in tone from crude cowboy humor to heartbreaking American tragedy.
22) The son: a novel
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
James Swanson transports listeners back to one of the most shocking, sad, and terrifying events in American history. A riveting, ticking-clock pace, with an unprecedented eye for dramatic details and impeccable historical accuracy to tell the story of the JFK assassination as it has never been told before.
Author
Series
Hackberry Holland novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...Hackberry Holland makes his first appearance in this early gem...Against the backdrop of growing civil rights turmoil in a sultry border town, the hard-drinking ex-POW attorney yields to the myriad of urgings of his wife, his brother, and his so-called friends to make a bid for a congressional seat--and finds himself embroiled in the seamy world of Texas powerbrokers. And when Hack attempts to overturn an old army buddy's conviction, and crosses...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Season three opens seven months after the 2nd Mass arrived in Charleston. Tom has been elected as a political official of Charleston, but he has his hands full as the resistance continues to battle the alien invaders. The newly formed alliance Tom formed with a new alien race gains them their first real advantage in the war against the invading Espheni.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
On March 4, 1865, at the United States Capitol, a crowd of fifty thousand listened as President Lincoln delivered his classic second inaugural address, urging charity and forgiveness to a nation in the final throes of war. Just two months later, a train, nine cars long and draped in black bunting, pulled slowly out of a station in Washington, D.C. Dignitaries and government officials crowded the first eight cars. In the ninth rode the body of Abraham...
29) The fourth kind
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A psychotherapist investigates an ongoing series of mysterious disappearances in the town of Nome, Alaska, in which her patients appear to be the victims of alien abduction.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A collection of fifteen stories, eleven of which have never been previously published, from the early career of bestselling American master Elmore Leonard [...] Marked by his unmistakable grit and humor, the stories in Charlie Martz and Other Stories, produced early in his career, when he was making his name particularly with westerns, reveal a writer in transition, exploring new voices and locations, from the bars of small-town New Mexico and Michigan...
31) The November man
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Codenamed 'The November Man,' Peter Devereaux is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness Alice Fournier. He soon finds this assignment makes him a target of his former friend and CIA protege David Mason. With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules, and...
32) If it bleeds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author, legendary storyteller, and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas. Mr. Harrigan Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Princess Kaʻiulani [is] the bright and beautiful heir to the Hawaiian throne in this epic based on a true story. Following an idyllic childhood in Honolulu, the willful teenage princess is sent to Britain to receive an education fit for a future queen. There, she meets the handsome young Clive Davies..., who quickly sweeps her off her feet. But meanwhile, destiny calls back home, where the Hawaiian monarchy is overthrown and the threat of U.S. annexation...
34) The Postman
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow--only scattered bands of terrorized survivors in what was once called the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for the works of Shakespeare and something he has yet to discover: the power to inspire hope.
38) Megan Leavey
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the true life story of a young Marine Corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. When she is assigned to clean up the K9 unit after a disciplinary hearing, Leavey identifies with a particularly aggressive dog, Rex, and is given the chance to train him. Over the course of their service, Megan and Rex completed more than 100 missions until an IED explosion injures...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As season five opens, all breed of beast and mutant are running rampant on earth. The Espheni's power core has been destroyed, and humans are now ready to fight on their terms, even if it means resorting to hand-to-hand combat against the enemy. After four years of being tortured, imprisoned and mutated and having their loved ones stolen from them. Tom and the second Mass are filled with rage, ready to destroy the enemy in an all-out battle to determine...
40) Fled
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin are convicts on the run. Handcuffed together on work detail, prisoners Charles Piper (Fishburne, The Matrix) and Mark Dodge (Baldwin, The Usual Suspects) flee the scene of a massacre by a fellow inmate who has single-handedly eliminated half of the prison guards. In no time the Attorney General's office,with a keen interest in the escaped Dodge, assigns a U.S. Marshal (Robert John Burke, 2 Guns) to track down...