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41) The book of life
Pub. Date
2014
Description
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
42) Stationary Bike
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
©2006
Description
New on audio from Stephen King. Climb aboard Stationary Bike -- a streamlined fever dream of a tale, in which an ordinary household object assumes otherworldly powers and a familiar journey takes a terrifying twist. When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Based on Steve Harvey's relationship self-help book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man. Four women have decided to take the advice in Harvey's book and use the recommendations to get their men on track. When the men discover this, they try to turn the tables on their women.
All the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas. But plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that...
46) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character. Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity...
47) The beaver
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
48) The guardians
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
49) Men in black 3
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Agent J must travel back in time to MIB's early years in the 1960s and save his partner, Agent K, from being assassinated by an alien. Along the way, Agent J teams up with young Agent K and learns that there are secrets to the universe that Agent K never told him.
51) Man gone down
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A father of three in a biracial marriage trying to claim a piece of the American Dream. On the eve of his thirty-fifth birthday, he finds himself broke, estranged from his Boston Brahmin wife and three children, and living in a friend's spare bedroom in Brooklyn. He has four days to come up with the money to keep his family afloat, and four days to make sense of his past and his future in a country where he feels preprogrammed to fail. But he has...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way. Jeremy Tambling's provocative Introduction reveals subtle themes relevant today in Dickens' favorite work.
54) Mr. Paradise
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Elmore Leonard is the undisputed master, the 'King Daddy of crime writers' (Seattle Times), in the august company of the all-time greats of mystery/noir/crime fiction genre: John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, et al. The creator of such unforgettable classics as Stick, Out of Sight, and Get Shorty-not to mention the character of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, lately of TV's hit series Justified-Leonard is in fine form with Mr. Paradise....
55) Price check
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Pete Cozy has a nice house in the suburbs and a solid job that allows him to spend quality time with his wife and son. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, fast talking Susan. Due to Susan's influence, Pete quickly finds himself on the executive track. That means more money, more time at work, and the less time with his family. He and Susan get too close and become enamored with one another-creating tension in the workplace...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Jennifer Lopez stars as Claire Peterson, a high school literature teacher struggling to get back in the dating game after separating from her cheating husband. When handsome and charismatic nineteen year old Noah moves in next door, Claire has a moment of weakness that leads to an extremely intense and intimate night together. Noah's attraction quickly turns into a dangerous, violent obsession, forcing Claire to her limits as she protects her world...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells the story of a boy named Charles Xavier who discovers that he is a mutant with special powers, how he decides to use those powers to protect humanity, and how he starts a school to teach mutants to use their super powers for good.
Author
Formats
Description
"Meet Linda Breland, single parent of two teenage daughters. Linda's personal life? Well, between the married men, the cold New Jersey winters, her pinched wallet and her ex-husband who marries a beautiful, successful woman 10 years younger than she is - let's just say, Linda has seen enough to fill 1000 pages.
As the story opens, she is barreling down Interstate 95, bound for Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, the land of her ancestors. Welcomed by...
60) Making love
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A married couple has to come to terms when the husband finds himself falling in love with another man.
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