Charles S. Dutton
Author
Pub. Date
2002, c1995
Description
Boy Willie wants to buy a farm that his ancestors used to work as slaves, but first he must sell the family's most valued possession, a beautifully carved piano that holds a unique place in their history. He tries everything to persuade his sister to let it go, but she refuses. To her, the heirloom symbolizes the heart and soul of the family.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Ernie Davis was born in New York and raised in poverty. He overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles to become an unstoppable running back for the Syracuse Orangemen. With the guidance of coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie would develop from an impressive high school athlete into a college legend. Ernie would become the first black to win the Heisman Trophy. Refusing to play by the unspoken racist rules of the day, Ernie broke through one barrier after...
4) Runaway
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A young man learns the importance of kindness when he tries to live among the homeless in the subway system of New York City.
5) Rudy
Pub. Date
c2000
Formats
Description
Although people have told Rudy all his life he's not good enough, smart enough or big enough, nothing can stop his impossible dream of playing football for Notre Dame.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
A guard at a teen correctional facility who saw the cycle of destructive choice and racial tensions between female teen offenders, decides to do something about it. He gathered African-American, Latina, and white teens, and put together a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the detention center. The experience of belonging to his track team not only broke down the racial divides between the young women, but transformed them, putting them on...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian's debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man's hard-fought road towards reconciling with his better self. Coming home to a broken marriage and uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Papazian) thinks he's at the end of his rope. But when his troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony can't seem to turn away. To the dismay of the boy's embattled...
8) Legion
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When God loses his faith in mankind, he sends a legion of angels to bring about Armageddon. An out of the way diner becomes the setting for the ultimate battle of survival as Archangel Michael helps the group of strangers defend themselves and ensure the birth of a baby who will become the new messiah.
9) True women
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of frienship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas lains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
10) Gothika
Description
Dr. Miranda Grey is a clinical psychologist who works alongside her husband, Doug, in the mental ward of a top security prison, where Miranda has been devoting much of her attention to a clever but deeply disturbed murderer named Chloe. One night, Miranda has a hideous nightmare in which a chance meeting with a strange young girl. Once she wakes, however, Miranda discovers that the real horror has just begun.
12) Alien 3
Series
Alien volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Lt. Ripley is the lone survivor when her crippled spaceship crash lands on Fiorina 161, a bleak wasteland inhabited by former inmates of the planet's prison. This is the story of her fears that an Alien was aboard her craft and the realization that may compel her to try to destroy not only the creature but herself.
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
The U.S. Navy makes a chilling discovery: an extraterrestrial craft has landed in the Atlantic Ocean. As a result, a team of experts must be quickly assembled to prepare for the possibility of an unprecedented crisis situation - an alien invasion. The response plan is dubbed THRESHOLD and the members of the team are experts in their individual pursuits from contingency analysis, microbiology, physics, language and mathematics, to covert operations....
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Lou Gosset Jr. is a grizzled con, when Jared Williams (Blair Underwood) arrives in the prison, is soon revealed to be his long-lost son. When the two are realized the parole board stipulates that Jared and his father live with him. While his father gets a job as a car mechanic, and falls in with Yvonne (Rae Dawn Chong), Underwood falls in with his old criminal buddies, who decide to rob the dealership where his father works
16) Random hearts
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
An internal affairs sergeant and a Congresswoman become entangled in a shocking mystery and an unexpected romance after their spouses are killed in a plane crash together.
17) Legion
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
When God loses faith in humans, he sends a legion of angels to destroy them and humanity's last hope lies in a group of people trapped at a truck stop with the Archangel Michael.
18) Legion
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When God loses his faith in mankind, he sends a legion of angels to bring about Armageddon. An out of the way diner becomes the setting for the ultimate battle of survival as Archangel Michael helps the group of strangers defend themselves and ensure the birth of a baby who will become the new messiah.
19) Eye see you
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
A brutal seral killer is targeting cops, and detective Malloy is on the trail. But now the killer is making it personal, and his dedication becomes a twisted emotional nightmare. Time is running out, and so are the options, as Malloy engages in an extreme game of cat-and-mouse with a killer who won't be stopped.
20) Nick of time
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.