Amy Ryan
Author
Language
English
Description
Zen and Xander are sisters-truly, madly, deeply sisters, and this is their last summer together.
Zen is the "good" girl with a black belt in karate and a newfound penchant for kicking heads. Xander is a wild scientific genius with a self-destructive streak a light-year long. They have three things in common: they're brown-eyed blondes, they've noticed the boy next door has turned into a hottie, and they miss their mom, who died almost a year ago.
These...
Author
Language
English
Description
Shot is an intimate portrait of a young woman's sudden transition to a chronic, life-threatening, auto-immune disease. Treatment for a routine infection one Monday morning yielded, with stunning speed, to a glucose monitor, test strips, insulin vials, and a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes. In Shot, Amy Ryan shows what it really takes to live with and manage an incurable disease. She charts the essential duties that keep her stable while revealing the...
4) Flame
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the thrilling conclusion to Amy Kathleen Ryan's Sky Chasers series, Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on-board the New Horizon-and take down their enemies before it's too late
Waverly and the other members of the Empyrean have been scattered, and their home ship destroyed. Their mission to rescue their parents didn't go as planned, and now they're at an even greater disadvantage: trapped with their enemies on the New Horizon, trying...
5) Vibes
Author
Language
English
Description
A high school girl can read minds-and doesn't like what she hears.
Nothing is beyond Kristi Carmichael's disdain-her hippie high school, her friend Jacob, her workaholic mom. Yet for all her attitude, Kristi has a vulnerable side. She can hear the thoughts of her fellow students-a power that's not as cool as it sounds, since she can hear them calling her fat and gross. She's hot for Gusty Peterson, one of the most popular guys in school, but of course,...
6) Glow
Author
Series
Sky chasers volume 1
Language
English
Description
One of School Library Journal's Best Fiction Books of 2011. If a violent battle destroyed the only world you've ever known, would you be brave enough to save who was left? Would love be strong enough to survive the fight? Either way, there's no turning back. The Empyrean is the only home 15-year-old Waverly has ever known. Part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space, she and her boyfriend Kieran will be pioneers of New...
7) Spark
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After a desperate escape from the enemy ship, Waverly has finally made it back to the Empyrean. The memory of home has been keeping her alive for the past months… but home is nothing like she left it. Forced to leave their captive parents behind on the New Horizon, she's returned only to find that Kieran has become a strict leader and turned the crew against Seth. What happened to the Kieran she thought she knew? Now Waverly's not sure whom she...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertaiment/Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Donovan is a Brooklyn lawyer who finds himself thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Get ready to move your feet! Elmo, Abby, and the rest of the team are getting together for a party! And it's not any old party; it's a dance party! Join in the fun as Zoe choreographs a ballet, Nina teaches dances from all around the world, Elmo records a music video, and more!
13) Don Verdean
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hired by an ambitious small-town pastor to find sacred relics in the Holy Land, a self-proclaimed Biblical archaeologist comes up short, and his attempt to cover up his failure fuels a comic conspiracy.
15) Keane (Rated R)
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
William Keane is searching for his 6-year-old daughter who has been missing for months. One day, he meets a young woman and her 7-year old daughter. As he becomes increasingly attached to the child, it emerges that Keane's daughter may never have existed at all.
16) Green zone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
During the Iraq war, U.S. Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller leads Mobile Exploitation Team-Delta (MET-D) on a fruitless search of suspected WMD sites. When he wonders out loud why the intelligence is all wrong, he's told not rock the boat. Soon Miller, working with a local Iraqi informant named Freddy, is going after a Ba'athist general named Al-Rawi. CIA agent Martin Brown and journalist Lawrie Dayne share Miller's doubts; each have some pieces to...
17) Clear history
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Nathan was the successful head of marketing for a start-up electric car company. A disagreement with his boss led Nathan to walk away and sell his stock. Soon after, the company became wildly successful, humiliating Nathan who fled into exile. A decade later, Nathan lives a simple life on Martha's Vineyard and goes by the alias 'Rolly DeVore'. But when his old boss shows up, Nathan/Rolly vows to drive him off the island before his true...
18) Gone baby gone
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Patrick and Angie must face...
19) Changeling
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburban Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.