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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission, not...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission, not...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
When Caroline Ellis takes a job as a hospice worker in Louisiana's bayous, she unlocks a deadly secret involving magic, conjure, and sacrifice that pulls her into a terrifying world of strange, frightening, and unexplained incidents. The key to escaping may lie in a decrepit attic, but if she dares to believe in what she discovers, everything she fears will become real.
7) Sarah's Key
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Pub. Date
2012
Description
Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten-year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night. Desperate to protect her younger brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard a their secret hiding place a and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty seven years later: Sarahas story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Attack force: After Marshall Lawson loses his strike force team in a seemingly random, cold-blooded attack, he takes it upon himself to investigate the killings. He uncovers a covert military operation so secret that the military wants Lawson dead so their secret will be protected. Lawson engages in a merciless battle with a drug-dealing operation that appears to be funded by a rogue arm of the military.
The hunt for Eagle One: A daring raid becomes...
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
Oskar in conviced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnnected from his grieving mother and driven by a active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a greater...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The lives of both the family and the servants in the London townhouse at 165 Eaton Place are followed. Upstairs lives Richard Bellamy, the head of the household, and also a member of Parliament. His wife is a member of the titled aristocracy. Downstairs is Hudson, the Scottish butler who directs and guides the other servants concerning their tasks and proper places.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
This is a story that unfolds from inside the mind of Oskar Schell, an inventive eleven-year-old New Yorker whose discovery of a key in the belongings of his father, who died in the Wrold Trade Center on 9/11, sets him off on an urgent search for the lock it opens. As Oskar's quest takes him across the city, he encounters an eclectic assortment of people - survivors in their own way - who help uncover links to his father, preserving a connection to...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Xena travels the ancient world seeking redemption by battling for a better future for all mankind. But even as she makes powerful strides, Xena's efforts are crippled by the shattering misdeeds of her past. From sacrificing everything to save her best friend, Gabrielle, to accepting the punishment for her treatment of a young girl long ago, Xena faces inner demons and supernatural ones alike with her trademark bravery, wit, and strength in Season...
17) Freezer
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Robert Saunders, a New York City mechanic who is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there, and how he'll survive, will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing eight million, and a wounded cop who may hold the key it all. The temperature is dropping. The fear is growing.
18) Hustle & flow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the door to success demands one last hustle--if he's ever going...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic. The untold story of the building of a legend, and the many lives it affected during its 3-year construction. To its wealthy investors, it was a dream. To the middle class who oversaw the project, it was as challenge. But to the working class who built it, Titanic was the start...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Following its television debut in 1971, Upstairs Downstairs quickly became one of television's most enduring achievements. Over five brilliant seasons, millions of enthralled viewers made 165 Eaton Place their home away from home. Upstairs, the Bellamy family negotiated the scandals and successes of the English aristocracy, while downstairs, their loyal staff took a much livelier approach facing the challenges of their own lives. Together, their stories...