Lee Tergesen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Housewife Marta Walraven adores her husband, children and their idyllic Northern California life together. But beneath the suburban dream lies a dark and dangerous world, and when life presents unforeseen tragedy, the perfect facade comes crashing down. Now Marta must drop all illusions, embrace her new reality, and dig deep to discover reserves of courage, resilience and ingenuity she never knew she had.
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Newlyweds Alex and Alice are hosting a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. The other couples arrive in various states of discord, and the tensions are compounded when Alice's friends bring along a surprise guest--the very young and beautiful Helena. Alex and Alice try to keep the evening from spiraling out of control, and their own marriage from coming apart.
4) Tooken
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In this spoof film on the Taken action-film franchise, Bryan Mills is an ex-CIA agent now working as a mall security guard. He keeps finding his things are being taken from him, his wife, his dog, his daughter's virginity. With the help of his ex-CIA elderly mother, Bryan battles his nemesis BrownFinger to free his family and a pound of dogs in danger of exploding.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
9) Monster
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute who was executed in 2002 for the brutal murders of at least 6 men in Florida. Homeless most of her life, Wuornos subsisted by working as a prostitute. In Florida, down to her last five dollars and pondering suicide, she stopped into a bar for a beer where she meets Selby. One night, after a john attacks her, Aileen pulls a gun and kills the man. Aileen's loathing for the men who pay her for sex...
11) Extreme dating
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Four twenty-something friends believe that the key to winning over their true loves is to place themselves in extreme situations. They plot a fake kidnapping but the plan goes awry when the kidnappers turn out to be ex-cons with plans of their own. The remaining friends must now rescue the captives and manage to avoid the law at the same time
12) No one lives
Pub. Date
©2012.
Description
After a couple is taken hostage, the kidnappers discover that they now have to fight for their own survival.
Description
Wayne's World: Originally a skit on "Saturday Night Live" during the late '80s and early '90s, "Wayne's World" is about two teenage dudes who host a public access TV show, which is mainly about rock, babes and people who live in the area. One day Wayne and Garth go to a rock concert, and Wayne falls in love with a bass guitarist named Cassandra Wong. Wayne spends the rest of the movie trying to get Casandra to fall in love with him. He also struggles...
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