Edward Herrmann
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 102
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this...
2) The passage
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy -- abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When a beautiful lawyer from the prosecuting attorney's office, Carolyn Polhemus, is brutally murdered, assistant prosecutor Rusty Sabich is entrusted with the case. But he and Carolyn were much more than colleagues, and a zealous fellow prosecutor becomes convinces that Sabich is guilty of the crime.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
5) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Description
Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.
"In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Spurred by a personal tragedy, America's foremost documentarian is tackling cancer. Ken Burns examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The series artfully weaves three different films in one: a riveting historical documentary; an engrossing and intimate verite film; and a scientific and investigative report.
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar bills and pocket change.
Publisher
The History Channel
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2 explores the ideological conflict that existed between Thomas...
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of the first truly modern artistic movement, focusing on five of its most important practitioners, Renoir, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and Morisot. Their determination to remain true to their convictions--and the price they paid as a result--is vididly captured in their own words, taken from letters and diaries, while the world's foremost authorities offer fascinating insights into their lives and work"--Container.
11) Overboard
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The film critic best known for his "Chicago Sun-Times" reviews and his thirty years as co-host of "Siskel & Ebert at the Movies" describes his life and career, including his recovery from alcoholism and the complications from thyroid cancer treatment.
Publisher
A&E Televison Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the nation's sixteenth president. Presents a complex portrait of a man who many consider to be our greatest commander-in-chief, but who considered himself a lonely man. Brings to life the tumultuous time in which he led the country, some of his finest Civil War moments, and his final hours.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A documentary of the American Revolution. Chronicles events leading up to the war, the revolution, and the writing of the Constitution. Features dramatic readings from letters and diaries of the period, comments by historians, and live-action recreations.
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In a town not so far away and a time not so long ago, baby Rose was left on the porch of Greenwoods Orphanage, where Mrs. Hartley (Nancy Stafford) and the children under her tender care become her family. But when tragedy strikes, Rose (Bailee Johnson) loses the only home she has ever known and she is abruptly shipped to Irongates--a place that seems as cold and cruel as her previous home was kind. The strict headmaster, Mr. Crampton (Edward Herrmann),...
17) The Lost boys
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
When Sam, Michael, and their mother move to Santa Clara, California, strange things begin to happen. A new twist on the familiar vampire story.
19) The lost boys
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a string of mysterious deaths occur after they move to a coastal California town, teenagers Mike and Sam become convinced that their new home is overrun with vampires.
20) The paper chase
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A moving story of a first-year Harvard Law School student who comes to terms with his dreams in America's most competitive school. Hart finds he must survive much more than the pressures, all-night cramming and insecurities he expected. He becomes fearful of a brilliant professor, who terrorizes some, inspires others and who easily separates the men from the boys.
