TREVOR RABIN
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a decendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he had to steal it himself. Even if he pulls off this monumental task, keeping the...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
3) Coach Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The story of a high school basketball coach who receives both criticism and praise after benching his entire team due to poor grades.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Formats
Description
Balthazar Blake is a modern-day sorcerer with his hands full defending Manhattan against dark forces. When a seemingly average kid shows hidden potential, Balthazar takes his reluctant recruit on a crash course in the art and science of magic to become the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice.
5) Flyboys
Pub. Date
[2007]
Formats
Description
A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
Description
Two former groupies used to get it on with every late 60's music legend with a guitar and a Y-chromosome. Decades later, Suzette is still her brassy, sassy self and Lavinia is now a proper suburban wife and mother. When Suzette loses her job, she seeks out her "sister". Once they get together, their two world's collide.
7) The Guardian
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
An aging United States Coast Guard rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Just prior to this same mission his wife announces that she cannot take anymore. This leaves him an emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position and moves into the school. Once there he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum...
8) Armageddon
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
When NASA discovers a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth, a crew of roughneck oil drillers is sent in to plant a nuclear warhead that should destroy it.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Nelville Flynn is escorting a witness on a plane that is bound for Los Angeles. The problem is that an assassin is bent on killing the witness. The assassin releases a crate containing about 450 deadly snakes onto the same plane. Nelville finds out and he becomes bent on doing his job and getting the snakes back where they belong - on land. If the snakes won't cooperate with Nelville, he will just have to send the snakes on to snake heaven.
10) Kangaroo Jack
Description
Charlie and Louis are from Brooklyn. Charlie's stepfather, Sal, is a crime kingpin who has loaned Charlie a lot of money. Sal sends Charlie and Lewis to Australia, where they're to meet and deliver a large amount of cash to a mysterious Mr. Smith. En route to the outback, Charlie and Louis accidentally run over a kangaroo, and they decide to dress the marsupial in sunglasses and Louis' favorite jacket for snapshots. Since the animal wasn't dead, it...
12) Bad company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
CIA agents Oakes and Pope are trying to purchase a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb from a Russian black marketer. Just as the partners discover that another bidder exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Now Oakes needs to recruit Pope's long lost twin brother, Jake, so that the deal can commence in ten days time. Offered a sizable payday, Jake agrees to undergo the vigorous training to impersonate his brother and helps Oakes...
13) American Outlaws
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James ride home to Missouri to be on their ranch with their mother. As a railroad moves through buying up as much land as possible, burning folks out if need be, the James-Younger gang of outlaws become determined to use any means to protect their land and the land of their townsfolk and friends.
14) Get Smart
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Agent 86 is the bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart. He works for CONTROL. They are on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS. Smart has along side with him the competent and beautiful Agent 99. The headquarters of the U.S. spy agency CONTROL is attacked and the identities of its agents are compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his analyst Maxwell Smart, who has dreamed of working in the field with superstar...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
17) Max
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Military dog Max returns from service in Afghanistan, traumatized by his handler's death. He's adopted by the man's family and helps the grieving family heal.
Formats
Description
Bad boys: Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are two Miami cops who watch as 100 million dollars in heroin, from the biggest drug bust of their careers, is stolen out of the basement of police headquarters. This puts them hot on the trail of a French drug lord Fouchet, who leaves a trail of bodies in his wake and only one witness.
Bad boys II: Wisecracking Miami narcotics officers Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett return to investigate the illegal trafficking...
19) Glory road
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
20) Gridiron gang
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Sean Porter was a football player who turned into a juvenile detention counselor. He wrestles with the seemingly insolvable problem. The vast majority of young men who leave detention fall right back into crime. Looking for a way to give these not-yet-hardened kids a taste of self-esteem and discipline, Porter manages to persuade his superiors to let him teach the kids football - and then take on other high school football teams. Based on a true story....