Bruce Boxleitner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain left behind a quiet life and a career as a college professor to fight for the Union. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was a man of great religious faith who served in the defense of the Confederacy. And Gen. Robert E. Lee, who led the Confederate army, was a man who was forced to choose between his loyalty to the United States and his love of the Southern states where he was born and raised. As Chamberlain, Jackson,...
5) Tron: Legacy
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
"...plugs into your cerebral cortex and makes it sizzle."--New York Post
"...state of...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A heartwarming story adapted from the bestselling 'Love Comes Softly' series by Janette Oke. When the wife of a struggling homesteader on the western frontier unexpectedly dies, the man searches for the strength and courage to raise his young daughter, and finds it, with the help of his parents.
8) Far haven
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
In 1887, Hunter Braddock moves back to Far Haven, Arizona, to start over with his two young children, but when his father-in-law is brutally attacked, he must take on the corrupt forces strangling the town in order to protect what he loves most.
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
A family saga focusing on the lives of the Macahan family in the Old West. Their stories are played out against a realistic recreation of the American West in that lusty, hard-hitting period when laws were frequently broken and progress was charted by individual suffering and survival.
11) Wedding bells
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When two commitment-phobic busy professionals with little in common are asked to be the best man and maid of honor at a mutual friend's wedding, they didn't expect a life-changing romantic experience of their own.
12) Tron : legacy
Series
Description
When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
Life in the Colorado wilderness tests the Macahans to the limit in the gripping second season of one of the most epic TV Westerns of all time. Hardened mountainman and patriarch Zeb gets caught in the middle of a war between the Sioux tribe and the U.S. Army, while fugitive son Luke comes across a lethal gang of ex-Confederate gold robbers while on the run. Aunt Molly Culhane joins the family, bringing Irish grit and heart to the homestead.
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Gettysburg (254 min.): "... the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil."--Container.
Gods and generals (219 min.): "... reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful clashes of Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Each installment presents unique themes, viewpoints and characters, all tied together by their connection to the Macahan family saga, while the family's destiny is manifestly tied to that of the nation's. The third season sees mountain man Zeb Macahan continues to lead the clan in the task of taming the new frontier, with Molly Culhane by his side.
18) Tron: legacy
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
When Flynn, the world's greatest video game creator, sends out a secret signal from an amazing digital realm, his son discovers the clue and embarks on a personal journey to save his long-lost father. With the help of the fearless female warrior Quorra, father and son venture through an incredible cyber universe and wage the ultimate battle of good versus evil.
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Ten years after he became President of the Interstellar Alliance, John Sheridan returns to Babylon 5 for the IA's anniversary celebration. When a technomage shows him a glimpse of a future Earth destroyed in a devastating Centauri assault and a demonic entity makes itself known closer to home, the stakes are raised, with billions of lives in the balance.
20) Pandemic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When a Los Angeles bound passenger airline reports an inexplicable death mid-flight, Dr. Kayla Martin of the Center for Disease Control is called in to evaluate the frightening possibilities. She must determine if it is the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack or worse, a new virus that can't be contained. With the clock ticking and a search for Patient Zero commencing around the globe, the virus begins to spread, the body...