Bryce Dallas Howard
Author
Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown,...
3) Gold
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on an amazing journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Getting the gold was hard but keeping it is even more difficult, sparking an adventure through the most powerful boardrooms of Wall Street.
5) 50/50
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by personal experiences, an original story about friendship, love, survival, and finding humor in unlikely places. Two best friends' lives change when one of them is diagnosed with cancer.
7) Hereafter
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An American with psychic abilities, a French journalist and a London school boy are touched by death in different ways
8) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
9) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The residents of an isolated village live in mortal fear of the creatures that inhabit the surrounding woods
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures in a new era
13) As you like it
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The courtship of two exiles, a man and a cross-dressing woman, is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry and banishment in the Forest of Arden.
14) Jurassic World
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-two years following the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now includes a completely functioning dinosaur theme park, as once envisioned by John Hammond. After ten years of operation and decline in visitors, a unique attraction is designed to ignite visitor's interest, which fails horribly.
15) Rocketman
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An epic musical fantasy about the uncensored human story of Sir Elton John's breakthrough years.
16) Spider-Man 3
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A strange black entity from another world bonds with Spider-Man and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the complex swimming pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world
18) Pete's dragon
Language
English
Description
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
20) Manderlay
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, a young woman and her father stumble upon a plantation in Alabama where no one knows that slavery has been abolished