Beau Bridges
Publisher
Hallmark
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Murder doesn't beat around the bush, or at least that's the conclusion florist Abby Knight has come to. The former lawyer traded in her high-pressure job for a more serene life; but while she may have been done with homicide, it wasn't done with her. Now, in a new town, she finds herself being pulled into new cases which hit way too close to home. Her only option is to nip these murders in the bud, or the next funeral arrangement might be her own....
22) NightJohn
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When a new slave named NightJOhn is brought to the plantation, he opens a whole new world for Sarny because he has forbidden talents. He can read and also he can teach. As she learns to read she learns the power of words and the unconquerable strength of the human spirit.
23) Wildflower
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Drama of an abused, backwoods girl coming of age in the Depression-era South.
24) Underdog kids
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An inspiring movie for the whole family that explores the struggles and challenges of a group of inner city kids from a poor neighborhood who bravely take on the undefeated Beverly Hills Junior National Karate Team in the ultimate karate showdown at Nationals.
25) Rocketman
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A computer geek is chosen to go on the first manned mission to Mars, and his crewmates aren't happy.
26) Dreamin' wild
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The true story of love and redemption, this film is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album's rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Publisher
GKids
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1963 in Yokohama, an innocent romance blossoms between two high school students, Umi and Shun. As Japan recovers from World War II and prepares to host the 1964 Olympics, the mood contains both optimism and conflict as the younger generation struggles to escape the shackles of the past. While trying to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, the relationship flourishes. But a buried secret from their past emerges to cast...
31) Reilly's luck
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Val Durrant was just a child when he began his education at the side of a gambler named Will Reilly. From Colorado boomtowns to seedy Texas saloons to the streets of Europe and back, it was a school of cards, poetry, violence, honor, and luck. But outside a fancy Colorado hotel, Reillys luck ran out in a blazing roar of gunfire. Val will have to heed every lesson the gambler ever taught him if hes to bring in the ruthless gunmen who brought Will Reilly...
32) Charlotte's web
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her...
34) Norma Rae
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Norma Rae, a textile worker in a small Southern town, discovers that she has a social conscience when a labor organizer arrives at her mill to establish a union.
35) White Crosses
Author
Language
English
Description
Larry Watson's previous fiction evoking contemporary Western small-town life has won him awards, a dedicated readership, and unqualified critical praise. Now he has written a novel that envelops the rich emotional terrain of his beloved Montana in a mystery that is both unexpected and unforgettable. After a nighttime accident at the bottom of Sprull Hill in Bentrock, Sheriff Jack Nevelsen is compelled to try and protect a part of his hometown that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With this book, the author, former Vice President Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming. He presents, with alarming clarity and conclusiveness - and with humor, too - that the fact of global warming is not in question and that its consequences for the world we...
37) Smile
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Lin lives in a world of quiet hardship in China, longing to live without fear or shame. Katie lives in a world of pampered ease in Malibu and wants something new and challenging in her life. When these two come together, their lives are forever changed.
