Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"Teenager Jimmy Donovan struggles to survive in a household with a drug-addicted mother and a six-year-old sister, Angie, by selling marijuana in a diverse, suburban neighborhood. After his mother is hospitalized, Jimmy makes the difficult decision to begin pushing heroin in order to make the tuition payments for Angie, which will keep her in a safer, private school. This new business venture sparks some problems and sends Jimmy and his friends into...
Pub. Date
1996. 2004
Description
Isaiah Turner didn't want to be a hero. All he wanted was revenge. Orphaned when both his parents were cruelly murdered by the wealthy and powerful Cyrus Bloomington, the young Isaiah grew up with one aim in mind: to find the man who killed his folks and take him down.
Description
One day Amy's travels through the farm's woods lead to a discovery that touches her, a nest of orphaned goose eggs. She nurtures the eggs until they hatch and, since geese imprint on whoever happiness, Thomas does not have the heart to deny her family of goslings. The young geese thrive but their idyll is disturbed when an officious wildlife officer tells Thomas that it is illegal to raise wild geese without clipping their wings. Thomas however, has...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Unconquered Helen Keller in her story (1954): Through newsreels, interviews, photographs and motion pictures, traces the life of Helen Keller from birth until 76 years of age, and shows how this blind and deaf woman became one of the most celebrated women of two centuries.
Visions in silent darkness (2008): uses new research and goes further to show Helen Keller as not just acclaimed and capable but, rather, as an exceptional intelligence and a brilliant...
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Medical examiner Megan Hunt returns to work after Inspector Peter Dunlop's death to find her new partner is an old flame. Will her history with Detective Tommy Sullivan make working side by side impossible? Their search for justice becomes even more personal when a serial killer takes Megan's daughter hostage.
11) Secret Window
Author
Formats
Description
Troubled and recently divorced writer, Mort Rainey, is stalked by a deranged man claiming that he has stolen his original story.
Pub. Date
2008
Formats
Description
"Having survived the terrible battle with Azula, Aang faces new challenges as he and his brave friends secretly enter the Fire Nation. Their quest is to find and defeat Firelord Ozai. Along the way, they discover that Ozai has plans of his own. The leader of the Fire Nation intends to use the massive power of Sozin's Comet to spread his dominion permanently across the four nations. Short of time, Aang has a lot of bending to learn and no master to...
13) Georgia O'Keefe
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"The turbulent, 20 year love affair between artist Georgia O'Keefe and photographer Alfred Steiglitz fuels some of the most important art of the 20th century. Celebrated photographer and art impresario Alfred Steiglitz (Jeremy Irons) is shocked to learn that the extraordinary drawings he has recently discovered were rendered by a woman. Deciding to display the work of then-unknown artist Georgia O'Keefe (Joan Allen) in his gallery without her knowledge,...
Series
White Collar volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Description
White collar centers on the doubtful crime-solving partners Neal Caffrey, a charming ex-con, and Peter Burke, the federal agent charged with keeping him in order.
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Separated from his friends and family, and on the verge of losing it all, Michael Westen goes deep undercover, joining forces with a mysterious woman and infiltrating a sinister terrorist network. With time running out, Michael must do whatever it takes to stay alive and protect his loved ones. But now, he may be forced to go too far.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 12
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Barney Winslow had walked away from his family with a bitterness and a rage that well fit a prizefighter. He had never measured up to his father's expectations and long ago he'd lost hope of being the person his brother was. He only wished they'd stayed in their own nice little world and leave him alone. Barney had come to believe the promises of the prize ring. If he let the rage out with his hands, he'd have all the money and women he wanted. Just...
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