Donald Sutherland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.
3) Fallen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
4) Virus
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a crew of a crippled tugboat discover a deserted Russian military ship they find an alien electical life-form waiting inside.
5) Forsaken
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An embittered gunslinger attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
7) Backdraft 2
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the 1991 hit follows an investigator with the Chicago F.D., who has to track down an arms dealer who use deadly fires as a distraction.
8) Backdraft
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Stephen McCaffrey and his younger brother Brian are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Stephen is so relentless that he drives Brian out of firefighting and into arson investigation. Assisting arson investigator Donald Rimgale, Brian becomes involved in a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled...
9) Moonfall
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
10) MASH
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
During the Korean War, three U.S. Army surgeons defy military authority when they are not performing their duties.
12) The Italian job
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"In Venice, Italy, a team of expert thieves pulls a daring heist of $35 million dollars in bars of gold. One of the thieves betrays his companions and swipes the gold for himself. One year later, in Los Angeles, the surviving team members create a smart and devious plan to steal back the gold and get their revenge on the traitor"--IMDb.
13) Treasure Island
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can successfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
14) Ad astra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
15) Cold Mountain
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Inman, a young Confederate soldier, who is injured during the explosive 1864 battle of Petersburg, Virginia, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada awaits him. In Inman's absence, Ada befriends Ruby, who helps her keep up her late father's farm. Meanwhile, in his travels, Inman encounters a menagerie of interesting and colorful characters.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
17) Astro Boy
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
18) The best offer
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
19) Basmati blues
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is a musical comedy that follows Linda Watt, a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9, " a genetically modified rice she's created, unaware that the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.