Andrew McCarthy
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's, and Less than Zero, and as a charter member of Hollywood's Brat Pack. That iconic group of ingenues and heartthrobs included Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, and Demi Moore, and has come to represent both a genre of film and an era of pop culture. In his memoir Brat: An '80s Story, McCarthy focuses his gaze on that singular moment...
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas only thinks his life has been turned upside down after his developer father remarries and moves his new wife and daughter into the soon-to-be completed Mangrove Hollow. But an "expedition" to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie with a giant problem--the huge, lumbering, fire-breathing variety--and it's up to Nick, his stepsister Laurie, and his big brother, Julian (plus a familiar face from the original Spiderwick...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The actor-turned-travel writer meditates on how travel has helped him to overcome life-long fears and confront his resistance to commitment, tracing his soul-searching visits to such world regions as Patagonia, the Amazon, and Kilimanjaro.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago. Over the course of the journey, the pair traversed...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father had an illegitimate child, now an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same town, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the standoff at the prison turns into a full-blown riot, the inmates take advantage of the confusion by conducting sǎnces, holding prisoner auctions, and preening for the morning news. But with relationships tested and friendships starting to fray, will life at Litchfield ever return to normal?
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Season three of the popular Netflix original series about Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a classy woman in her thirties who is sentenced to prison after being convicted of a ten-year-old crime of trafficking money for her drug-dealer girlfriend.
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Actor and award-winning travel writer Andrew McCarthy discovers his ancestry in a compelling narrative that combines 26 intriguing and heartfelt stories about discovering home and roots with tips and recommendations on how to begin your own explorations. Addressing the explosive growth in ancestral travel, actor and travel writer Andrew McCarthy recounts his own quest to uncover his family's Irish history, along with 25 other prominent writers whose...
Series
Orange Is the New Black volume 1
Publisher
Lions Gate Television ; Tilted Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Four mothers. Four daughters. Eight stories. The Joy Luck Club is four women in San Francisco who have played mah jong together on a weekly basis to for forty some years. One of them, Suyuan, has died, and her daughter June is preparing to go to China. Auntie Lindo with daughter Waverly, Auntie Ying Ying with daughter Lena, and Auntie An Mei with daughter Rose are at the going away party. Born in China, the Joy Luck Club members came to America...
Publisher
Harper Children's Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, a collection of thirty-six excerpts from the Old and New Testaments includes the creation story, the battle of Jericho, the birth and youth of Moses, and the baptism and temptation of Jesus.
15) Less than zero
Publisher
CBS/Fox Video
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Julian is a boy with looks, charm, intelligence and a father who sets him up in the record business; he also has a drug habit. His best friend Clay wants to help and is willing to do almost anything for his friend, but Julian is going downhill so fast that he might take his girlfriend and Clay with him.
A Beverly hills boy has looks, charm, intelligence, and a drug habit.
17) St. Elmo's fire
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Seven friends, recent college graduates, search for a place in the real world and face the issues of career and commitment. Against the backdrop of St. Elmo's, their local hang-out, they save, betray and love each one another as only the closest of friends can.
19) The sight
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Michael hits an old woman with his car and her spirit visits him. She had the ability to see spirits and her mission was to help guide them on to the next world. Now she has passed this legacy, and a number of angry spirits, to Michael.
20) Pretty in pink
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A poor girl falls in love with a rich guy, and it angers both their families and their friends.