Stanley Tucci
41) The Witches
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
Pub. Date
©2014.
Description
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
44) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' team of reporters delve into allegations of sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government...
45) The Children Act
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
As her personal life falls apart, a judge has to decide a difficult case where religious parents of a 17-year-old boy suffering from leukemia refuse to allow the hospital to perform a life-saving blood transfusion.
46) Robots
Description
With the help of his misfit mechanical friends, a small town robot named Rodney embarks on the adventure of a lifetime as he heads for the big city to pursue his dreams and ultimately proves that anyone can shine no matter what they're made of.
47) Blackout
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once.
48) Doctor De Soto
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tells a story about a mouse dentist who copes with the toothaches of various animals, except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
49) Supernova
Pub. Date
2021
Description
A gay couple, one a musician, the other a novelist, embark on a road trip as dementia starts to take hold of one of them.
Description
Two Supreme Court Justices have been murdered. A lone law student turns her suspicions about the deaths into a speculative brief that sends shock waves into the highest levels of government. She finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government. She writes a speculative legal brief exposing the activities of a powerful oil magnate. With the help of Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, they suspect...
52) Show dogs
Pub. Date
2018
Formats
Description
After a failed attempt to recover a stolen baby panda, police dog Max reluctantly teams up with a human FBI agent named Frank. A hot tip leads Max and Frank to Las Vegas for the world's most exclusive dog show.
54) A private war
Pub. Date
c.2018
Description
In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin is one of the most admired war correspondents of our time. She is fearless and rebellious, and her mission to show the true cost of war. It drives her, along with war photographer Paul Conroy, to embark on the most dangerous assignment of their lives as they journey to the frontlines of conflict across the globe.
56) A Little Chaos
Pub. Date
2015
Description
A romantic drama following Sabine, a strong-willed and talented landscape designer, who is selected to build one of the main gardens at King Louis XIV's new palace at Versailles. In her new position of power, she challenges gender and class barriers while also becoming professionally and romantically entangled with the court's renowned landscape artist Andre Le Notre.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This collection of six modern classics by William Steig includes stories concerning creatures ordinary and extraordinary from Shrek, to Irene, a brave and loving little girl who must battle a howling blizzard, to Spinky, a boy who is so completely annoyed by his family that he no longer has any use for the human race.
58) The Witches
Pub. Date
2021
Description
The darkly humorous and heartwarming tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world’s Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the...
59) Space chimps
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Ham III is the grandson of the first chimp astronaut. Soon, the fun-loving chimp has to get serious about the mission - rid a far-away planet of their nefarious leader. Ham III becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog.
60) Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious "Spotlight" teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment....