Adam White
2) The midcoast
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's spring in the tiny town of Damariscotta, a tourist haven on the coast of Maine known for its oysters and antiques. Andrew, a high school English teacher recently returned to the area, has brought his family to Ed and Steph Thatch's sprawling riverside estate to attend a reception for the Amherst women's lacrosse team. Back when they were all teenagers, Andrew never could have predicted that Ed, descended from a long line of lobstermen, or Steph,...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After years of working as an FBI agent, Titus Crown returns home to Charon County, land of moonshine and cornbread, fist fights and honeysuckle. Seeing his hometown struggling with a bigoted police force inspires him to run for sheriff. He wins, and becomes the first Black sheriff in the history of the county. Then a year to the day after his election, a young Black man is fatally shot by Titus's deputies. Titus pledges to follow the truth wherever...
Publisher
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Go up-river and deep into the jungle, far from Brazil's cities and stadiums, where families of giant otters, tufted capuchin monkeys and mischievous coati (South American raccoon cousins) rally their wits to survive in a breathtakingly beautiful yet dangerous land. Follow their lives through an exciting year, from first steps in a brave new world, to ingenious resilience during drought and monsoon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee...
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Amphibians and reptiles ruled the world for nearly 200 million years, and today there are well over 14,000 species. Ranging from some of the largest, most deadly creatures on Earth to the smallest and strangest, these are some of the most fascinating and dramatic animals on the planet. Looks at parental and breeding behavior, as well as adaptability. A magnificent overview of life on the planet Earth.
10) Red tail reborn
Publisher
Hemlock Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American fighter pilots, who fought during World War II.
12) All involved
Author
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A story set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots details a series of murders committed outside of the active rioting zones by gang members using the chaos to settle old scores.
Author
Language
English
Description
Rice and Williams trace pro football's grand transformation from a loose coalition of regional teams constantly on the verge of collapse to surviving the Great Depression and World War II, to its eventual preeminence as an international phenomenon. -- adapted from jacket
Publisher
The Message Productions, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Filmed over 211 shoot days in nine countries and five continents over four years, This Changes Everything is an epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by Naomi Klein's international non-fiction bestseller This Changes Everything, the film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana's Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond....
15) Ingrid goes west
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unstable young woman with a checkered past of obsessive behavior. She secretly moves to Los Angeles to befriend Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) -- an Instagram "influencer" with a fabulous artist boyfriend, a camera-ready terrier, and an array of new products and brands to promote to her followers. After Ingrid adopts a Taylor-made identity for herself, her attempts to prove she's BFF material are underway--that...