David Suchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a battle that will decide the fate of Narnia itself.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden Lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Millions of people know the stories of A.A. Milne, but few are aware that a real bear inspired them. Milne and his son Christopher met the real Winnie at the London Zoo in 1926. A Bear Named Winnie is based on the story of that amazing bear.
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Death on the Nile": A pleasure cruise down the Nile turns deadly when a murder is discovered on board. "Sad Cypress": The solution to a double-murder case appears to be cut and dried, but Poirot's instincts eventually lead him to the real truth. "The Hollow": A weekend retreat where all the guests appear to despise one another finds Poirot hard at work doing what he does best. "Five little pigs": Poirot agrees to help a young woman prove her mother's...
Author
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
After World War I, Tommy and Tuppence meet in London and decide that for adventure they will accept a job from the British government; Tommy and Tuppence start a detective agency and one of their first clients asks them to find a pearl necklace; after a body is found in her friend's library, Miss Marple sets out to solve the mystery; after being accused of a priest's murder, a man uses a list of names from the priest to clear his name; Captain Hastings...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
10) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances gets out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.
12) Effie Gray
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A sumptuous historical drama set against a luscious backdrop exploring the scandalous love triangle between Victorian art critic John Ruskin, his young bride Effie Gray, and his protǧ,̌ painter John Everett Millais. After marrying Ruskin, Effie quickly realizes her marriage is a lie when Ruskin refuses to consummate it. Yearning for affection, she soon falls for the charms of the charismatic Millais.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 8
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
CRIME & MYSTERY. The famous Orient Express, thundering along on its three days' journey across Europe, came to a sudden stop in the night. Snowdrifts blocked the line at a desolate spot somewhere in the Balkans. Everything was deathly quiet. "Decidedly I suffer from the nerves," murmured Hercule Poirot, and fell asleep again. He awoke to find himself very much wanted. For in the night murder had been committed. Mr. Ratchett, an American millionaire,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Casper: "Ghost therapist" Dr. James Harvey and his daughter Kat arrive at drafty, old Whipstaff Manor. Its greedy owner, Carrigan Crittendon, has hired Dr. Harvey to exorcise the house's apparitions: a friendly but lonely young ghost named Casper, who's just looking for a friend, and his outrageous uncles Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso (The Ghostly Trio). If the plan works, she and Dibs, her partner-in-slime, can get their hands on the manor's fabled...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...