Tim Matheson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season. Thereupon begins one of the most hilarious-and heartwarming-journeys ever told. Along...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
One month before her CIA training is over, agent Annie Walker is summoned for active duty in one of the agency's most secretive branches, but unknown to her, Annie is being used as bait by her bosses to get someone or something from her past.
Publisher
Direct Source Special Products
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
An abusive husband terrorizes his wife and children and charges his wife with abandonment. She is forced to take her children and go underground to start a new life. Eventually she must face him in a final showdown to be able to live in peace.
9) Child's play
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Zoe Hart's life was going according to plan: she was on her way to becoming a heart surgeon just like her father. But when she's told that she didn't have the bedside manner needed for an important fellowship, she's devastated. If she wants to get the fellowship next year, she must become a general practitioner. So, the New Yorker takes a chance on an offer from an admirer--in the deep south.
13) Drop dead Fred
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A young woman who has just split from her husband is advised by her mother to try to regain her balance by returning home. However, what- or who- she discovers is her childhood imaginary friend, Fred. After being locked in a box for 21 years, Fred is bursting with energy, and is just the ticket to re-energize the depressed young woman!
Language
English
Formats
Description
Van is a 7th-year student who has no plans to graduate. Life is good for Van. He's got a coed in every closet and a party to go to every night. His slick reputation even catches the eye of sexy Gwen Pearson, an on-campus reporter determined to expose the naked truth behind his wild exterior. When Gwen enters his life and his father stops paying for his tuition, Van's days as king of Coolidge College could be over.
16) Black sheep
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
17) Blind fury
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nick Parker, was blinded by an explosion in Vietnam, but rescued and trained to be a master swordsman by sympathetic villagers. Twenty years later he has become a drifter. He visits the family of Frank Devereaux (O'Quinn) an old Army buddy, now a chemist. There he foils an attempt by gangsters to kidnap the family in order to force Frank to produce designer drugs. Frank, it seems, has fallen into debt to the mob while gambling at a Reno casino. Nick...
18) Jonny Quest
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jonny's father is a scientist, the sort who travels to exotic locations and faces a host of sinister villains, gun-wielding thugs, and fearsome monsters. Not only does Jonny go along on these escapades, but so do his tutor-bodyguard, Roger T. "Race" Bannon, his mystical adopted brother, Hadji, and his dog, Bandit.
Publisher
Turner Hanna Barbera Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Showcasing the episodes in the three-segment form as they originally aired, these stellar retro hits soar through space and time to deliver justice! First, intergalactic policeman Space Ghost navigates the cosmos in his tricked-out spaceship, The Phantom Cruiser, battling villains like Brak and Zorak in his legendary suit and powerful wristbands. Then, Dino Boy teams with caveman Ugh and dinosaur Bronty to go primeval on the ancient menaces of their...
Publisher
Distributed by Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Mary White: In this true life story, a man reflects on the year he spent with his daughter, who was a young social reformer and expert horsewoman.
Wind dancer: A girl loses her ability to walk during a riding accident. Her physical therapist hopes that the girl can form a bond with her therapy horse that will allow her to walk again.