Darren McGavin
Description
He's heir to the Madison Hotel millions, but the only subjects Billy has studied are babes and booze. But when Brian Madison informs his goofball son that he plans to turn over his Fortune 500 company to vice president/weasel Eric Gordon, Billy makes the bet of his life. He's going back to school with hilarious results.
Description
Happy Gilmore: Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot translates to an astonishing 400 yard tee shot. So when his grandmother loses her home to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by joining the pro golf tour, bringing his ferocious temper and outlandish antics to the well-tended fairways. Before long, Happy is a media sensation, attracting crowds and news cameras wherever he...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Formats
Description
The harrowing story of a man with no memory, Jason Bourne, an assassin hunted by unseen armies for reasons he doesn't remember. A shooting victim, suffering from amnesia, finds himself with a Swiss bank account in the name of Jason Bourne, a professional assassin being manipulated by a top-secret American government organization to kill his arch rival, the dreaded Carlos.
Pub. Date
1984
Description
All that stands between 9 year old Ralphie Parker and happiness is a Genuine Red Ryder Carbine Action Two Hundred Shot Lightning Loader Range Model Air Rifle. Unfortunately, everyone says "NO! You'll only shoot your eye out!" Set in 1940's Indiana this is a classic Christmas story.
8) Hangar 18
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Two astronauts deploy a satellite from the space shuttle when it collides with an unidentified object. The object makes a crippled but safe landing in the remote southwestern U.S. where it is quickly carted off by government agencies to an Air Force base--Hangar 18. Meanwhile, the two astronauts, back on Earth, are anxious to find out what has happened, but no one is talking. The government will stop at nothing to keep them from discovering the truth....
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Backed by 'The Boss' and blessed with other worldly powers, Jonathan and Mark travel wherever the Spirit takes them. From small towns to bustling cities, their journey touches troubles lives from all corners of America. Imparting hard-earned wisdom, humor, and whenever necessary, a dash of divinity, these gentle souls perform everyday miracles of remarkable transformation.
10) Perfect Harmony
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Set in South Carolina during the 1950s, two boys form a friendship in spite of the racial barriers that divide the town.
12) Summertime
Series
Criterion collection volume 22
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A lonely secretary travels to Venice on a vacation with the secret hope of falling in love.
13) Captain America
Pub. Date
[2011], c1992
Description
The Red Skull defeats Captain America in 1941, but the superhero is thrown into suspended animation. Captain America is revived 50 years later to face the Red Skull one more time.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 min.): For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 min.): A suspended FBI agent becomes trapped in a deadly game against...
15) From the hip
Pub. Date
2006, c1987
Description
Robin "Stormy" Weathers is a brash young lawyer with a reputation for breaking the rules and some wild ways of practicing criminal defense. But when Stormy takes on the case of a brilliant professor accused of a brutal murder, he finds himself questioning his client's innocence as well as his own abilities as an attorney.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Happy Gilmore: Although Happy dreams of becoming a professional hockey player, he discovers that his hockey slap shot translates to an astonishing 400 yard tee shot. So when his grandmother loses her home to the IRS, Happy decides to earn the house back by joining the pro golf tour, bringing his ferocious temper and outlandish antics to the well-tended fairways. Before long, Happy is a media sensation, attracting crowds and news cameras wherever he...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Maximum overdrive (1986, 98 min.) : For three horrifying days, the Earth passes through the tail of a mysterious comet. The comet's magnetic fields cause all the machines to suddenly come to life and terrorize their human creators in a horrific killing spree. Now it's up to a small group of people trapped at a desolate truck stop to defeat the killer machines.
Raw deal (1986, 106 min.) : A suspended FBI agent becomes trapped in a deadly game against...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Apple Dumpling Gang: Three orphan children strike gold in 1878 California.
Apple Dumpling Gang rides again: Amos and Theodore are back and trying to make it on their own. When they arrive at the town they are going to, all sorts of things go awry.
Hot lead & cold feet: A tough father is out to take control of a small western town with the help of his twin sons: one a gunfighter, the other a mild-mannered coward.
Gus: The California Atoms are in...