Anne Heche
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.
Having wandered away from her arguing family during a hike on New England's Appalachian Trail, a young girl discovers that she is lost in the menacing woods with only her personal stereo...
Author
Language
English
Description
Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe, devoted to his profession and the painting hobby he loves, has a solitary but ordered life. When renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery of Art and becomes his patient, Marlow finds that order destroyed. Desperate to understand the secret that torments the genius, he embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism....
3) Toxic skies
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A strange new disease has a city in its grip, killing people with alarming speed. Two strangers are brought together in their urgent mission to find a cure. Dr. Tess Martin is a top virologist driven by her tragic past. Her only hope is Jack Bowen. Jack is a rule-breaking renegade who holds the key to the disease's horrendous origins.
4) Catfight
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A reunion between two former college friends sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
High school basketball coach Ray Drecker lives in a Detroit devastated by the decline of the auto industry. After an electrical fire destroys his home, he loses custody of his kids to ex-wife Jessica; joins forces with poet-turned-pimp Tanya, with whom he once had a fling; and becomes a male escort.
6) Birth
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A widow for ten years, Anna is looking forward to getting remarried when a mysterious boy appears claiming to be the reincarnation of her late husband.
7) What remains
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A small-town pastor reckons with an act of forgiveness while a sheriff investigates a murder that may be related.
8) Cedar Rapids
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
9) 13 minutes
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just thirteen minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength...
10) Supercell
Publisher
Saban Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Baseball-size hail, violent winds, and churning tornadoes make supercells deadly, and when William Brody was a boy, his father a legendary storm-chaser was killed by one. Now the family business belongs to Zane Rogers, a reckless tour operator who sees dollar signs where others see storm clouds. When his destiny arrives in the form of one of the most powerful storms on record, William leaves his mom and home behind to team up with his father's ex-partner,...
11) Call me crazy
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The actress describes her struggle to overcome a difficult and abusive childhood, including her father's frequent absences and his death from AIDS, her rise to success in the entertainment world, and her lesbian affair with Ellen DeGeneres.
12) Body double
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Returning home from a trip to Paris, Boston medical examiner Maura Isles confronts a nightmarish scene. Police cruisers line her street and slumped in a car at the end of Maura's driveway is a dead woman, her head bloodied by a gunshot wound. Cops and neighbors gape at her as she approaches. Only when Maura looks at the victim does she understand why everyone is so shocked by her arrival. The dead woman looks exactly like Maura. Within a week, the...
13) The last word
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Harriet is a retired businesswoman who tries to control everything around her. When she decides to write her own obituary, a young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, resulting in a life-altering friendship.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops leading the Durham chapter of...
15) John Q
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Formats
Description
John Q. is a factory worker facing financial hardship as a result of reduced hours in his workplace. He and his wife soon discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although they have an HMO, they are informed that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money for the surgury himself and with no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the...
17) Dig: Season one
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When FBI agent Peter Connelly (Isaacs) investigates the murder of a beautiful American woman in Jerusalem, he soon discovers that the holiest city on earth hides an unholy secret. Now, in a race against time, Peter must stop the schemes that threaten to bring about an ancient prophecy and change the course of humanity.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A trilogy of stories set in the same house--with different occupants and spanning over 40 years--examines three women, the common crisis of an unexpected pregnancy, and the wrenching decision to have an abortion. In 1952, abortion is illegal. A widowed nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy by taking drastic measures to obtain one. In 1974, a happily married woman, the mother of four children, discovers that she is pregnant again. Now she must...
19) Arthur Newman
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Newman; follows the mid-life travails of sad sack Wallace Avery. Refusing to face a life he hates, he stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur₂s road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind. Through the process, Arthur and Mike discover that what they love most about each other are the identities they...