Gary Ross
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Sex. High-stakes corruption. Murder. Meet Gideon Rimes, an Iraq-war vet and army detective turned Private Investigator. Returning a kid separated from his family at the border should have been an easy task. Too bad Gideon left his Baby Glock in his gun safe back in New York... (Publisher's Note: This is a short story in the Gideon Rimes mystery series.)
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Take another trip into the darkness!
Venture forth into fourteen chilling tales of unrelenting horror. A dull and quiet night turns into a bloody, gory evening shift in an emergency ward. Three revolting murders begets a supernatural revenge. Turnabout is fair play with New York's elite. Erotic dreams mask an unpredictable fate. Government involvement only makes matter worse. A doctor is held captive by his judge, jury, and executioner. Generational...
4) Seabiscuit
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Follows the story of the champion racehorse and the three men who discovered him, chronicling how a former bicycle repairman purchased the horse despite its lack of promise, and how the horse rose to become one of the sport's top performers.
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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bartholomew Biddle's life has always been pretty ordinary, but when a huge wind blows past his window one night, he feels the call of adventure, grabs his bed sheet and starts flying. Soon he's soaring far above his little town, heading wherever the wind takes him. But will he be able to find his way home again?
8) Ocean's 8
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Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
9) Big
Description
"All twelve-year-old Josh Baskin wants is to be big. But when his wish is granted beyond his wildest dreams, Josh finds a new face in the mirror ... his own, at age 30. Now, aided only by his boisterous best friend, he'll have to keep his true age secret as he tries to fill his own oversized shoes. But as his innocent charms help him rise to the top of the adult world, Josh will face the biggest decision of his life -- return to his own age, or remain...
10) Pleasantville
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.
11) Dave
Description
Kevin Kline stars as an off-the-wall, temporary replacement for the missing president. His unusual style of governing and decision making tip off the opposition that something is definitely "out-of-order" in Washington.
12) Ocean's 8
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Description
Debbie Ocean gathers a crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's yearly Met Gala.
"Ocean's 8's girls-just-wanna-have-grand-larceny conceit is the kind of starry, high-gloss goof the summer movie season was made for."--Entertainment Weekly
"You've got stars, gowns, and crisp montage sequences of team building and crime planning... The pleasures of Ocean's 8 are just what you think they'll be."--Village Voice
"Bullock and Co. are a pack...
13) The hunger games
Pub. Date
2012
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Description
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival...
17) Dave
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to impersonate the ailing president.
18) Big
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A 12-year-old boy's wish comes true when he asks a mechanical carnival genie to make him 'big'. He manages to land a job at a toy company where he experiences the complications of being an adult.
19) The Hunger Games
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Once upon a time in the far away kingdom of Dor lived a brave and virtuous mouse with comically oversized ears who dreamt of becoming a knight. Banished from his home for having such lofty ambitions, Despereaux sets off on an amazing adventure with his good-hearted rat friend Roscuro, who leads him, at long last, on a very noble quest to rescue an endangered princess and save an entire kingdom from darkness.