David Arnold
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evan Taft has plans. Take a gap year in Alaska, make sure his little brother and single mother are taken care of, and continue therapy to process his father's departure. But after his mom's unexpected diagnosis, as Evan's plans begin to fade, he hears something: a song no one else can hear, the voice of a mysterious singer . . . Shosh Bell has dreams. A high school theater legend, she's headed to performing arts college in LA, a star on the rise....
Author
Publisher
F+W Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
This high caliber reference offers readers a dynamic colorful depiction of handguns significant to days gone by. More than 20 models from the 1900s are covered - the Colt SAA, Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum, Walther P-38, Beretta 92 - reminiscent of the days of gunfighters and cowboy action heroes.
Based on the series of featured 20th century handguns from Handguns magazine, each chapter will include thorough coverage of a specific model,
...Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is Noah Oakman, sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then Noah gets hypnotized. Now Noah sees changes--inexplicable scars, odd behaviors, rewritten histories--in all those around him. All except his Strange Fascinations"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gorgeously rendered adventure that captures the ache and joy of adolescence in a mad world."—Tillie Walden, award-winning author of On a Sunbeam
Ty and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans for the future: step one, make a killer documentary about humanity’s recent brush with extinction; step two, apply to film school together; step three, achieve...
Ty and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans for the future: step one, make a killer documentary about humanity’s recent brush with extinction; step two, apply to film school together; step three, achieve...
Author
Series
Publisher
Citation Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Leon the lion and friends have some fun with feel-good stories to share with young children. Flyin Lion and his friends inspire children to reach for their dreams and do their best in everything that they do. Soothing bedtime verses are told through cute animal characters that show children how special they are and how they can aspire to be anyone or anything. Stories teach about diversity and help children understand that we are all different yet...
8) Mosquitoland
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane."--Provided by publisher.
10) Four brothers
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.
11) Zoolander
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three-time winner of the Male Model of the Year, Derek, loses out the fourth time to rival, Hansen. Now the ridiculously good-looking supermodel must save the world from an evil clothes manufacture.
12) Casino royale
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Bond receives his licence to kill, 'M' sends him on a mission to face Le Chiffre, a ruthless and cunning financier who will teach Bond his most important lesson: Trust no one.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Modern bounty hunter Lewis Gates is hired to track down three dangerous fugitives who have escaped into the Montana wilderness. When the fugitives are found murdered, Gates has a mystery on his hands. Accompanied by anthropologist Lillian Sloane, Gates ventures further into the mountains and discovers an isolated settlement inhabited by [Cheyenne dog soldiers] thought to have been wiped out [in the area] by white settlers a century earlier. The two...
14) Die another day
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
While on assignment in North Korea, Bond is captured by government agents, where he's imprisoned and tortured for over a year. When Bond is exchanged for another prisoner, not everyone is certain 007 is still capable of doing his job. After an unscrupulous entrepreneur is discovered to be in cohoots with the other prisoner, Bond is back on the case, and he finds the two men have sinister plans which could decide the fate of the world.
15) Die another day
Series
Language
English
Description
From a dark cell in a North Korean prison to the beautiful beaches of Cuba, Pierce Brosnan's 007 is on the trail of a diabolical genius who's hellbent on slicing up the earth... literally.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little too perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
18) Made in Dagenham
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011, ©2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant, walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally.
19) The musketeer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A young man comes of age and decides to avenge the brutal murder of his parents. In a world threatened by war, and finding he has impressive combat skills, he finds the opportunity he is looking for in the elite fighting force of the infamous Musketeers. After years of disgrace, he reunites the group and brings them back to their previous glory. Along his journey, he helps the Queen of France and finds love.
20) Behind the Song
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A song to match everyone's heartbeat.
A soaring melody, a pulse-pounding beat, a touching lyric: Music takes a moment and makes it a memory. It's a universal language that can capture love, heartbreak, loss, soul searching, and wing spreading—all in the span of a few notes. In Behind the Song, fourteen acclaimed young adult authors and musicians share short stories and personal essays inspired by the songs, the albums, the musicians who
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