Edward Asner
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Language
English
Description
Corporate raiders (Edward Asner) with limitless capital have a market analysis on a new legal substance and a strategic plan to take over. As Mary Jane (Joan Schirle), a back to the land pot farmer comes to terms with her life as a grower and a mother in the economy, will she survive the establishment's infrastructure as a female entrepreneur?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
4) Hiroshima
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic "that stirs the conscience of humanity" (The New York Times). Almost four decades after the original publication of this celebrated book, John Hersey went back to Hiroshima...
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Language
English
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Description
Presents a dramatized account of a meeting organized by Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The invited guests include heavyweight champion Joe Louis, tap star Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and actor Paul Robeson. Rickey wants their backing when he taps Jackie Robinson to be the major league's first black ballplayer. The men discuss the integration of baseball, racial equality, and their own struggles with segregation in the United...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a newspaper acquires top secret papers from the Pentagon, they decide to publish them. As a result, the public is made aware of a shady study about U.S. participation in the Vietnam War. The First Amendment is tested when the public's right to know clashes with the government's urge for secrecy.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Returning from college one Christmas, Thomas Kinkade finds his mother is ready to lose the family cottage to foreclosure. He is inspired to paint a mural of his hometown, which launches his career and helps the town rediscover their Christmas spirit.
8) The bachelor
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Faced with the choice of getting married within 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon.
9) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
11) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
12) Actual innocence
Author
Language
English
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Description
It's not every day a federal judge comes knocking at one's door, especially with a curious request- to review the final appeal of a murderer on Death Row. California lawyer Greg Monarch has every intention of saying no to the request- until he discovers the prisoner is his former lover. Six months from execution, Sarah Trant has turned to the one man she hopes can save her. Greg failed once before trying to rescue Sarah from...
14) For Us All
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Language
English
Description
A team of lawyers uses a little-known legal writ to fight and overturn the conviction of Fred Korematsu, unjustly sentenced for resisting the WWII mass incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The play draws much inspiration from Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and his Quest for Justice by Lorraine K. Bannai (University of Washington Press 2015) and Justice Delayed by Peter Irons (Wesleyan University Press 1989).
Includes a...
15) Elf
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], ©2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
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Language
English
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Description
In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch--depressed, in poor health, unhappy with his life - wrote an angry letter to God. His frustrated questions - What does it take to make life work? What have I done to deserve a life of such continuing struggle? - poured out onto a yellow legal pad. Before he was through, his pen stayed suspended over the paper, and a reply was whispered into his mind by a voiceless voice: 'Do you really want an answer to all these questions,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros. Television Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Christmas has always been a test of survival for Eddie and his brood. And that's truer than ever when they receive an all-expenses-paid holiday tour of the South Pacific and end up shipwrecked on a remote island.
18) Mastergate
Author
Language
English
Description
In this satirical comedy, playwright Larry Gelbart examines the court hearings for the Iran-contra scandal that erupted during the Reagan Administration.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the imagination of radio pioneer Norman Corwin comes one of the strangest trials in the history of jurisprudence. A molecule refuses to be assigned to any particular substance and insists on choosing for itself.
Starring Edward Asner, Carl Reiner, Charlie Robinson, and Erika Schickel.
Written and directed by Norman Corwin.