Ernie Hudson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This masterpiece by celebrated New York Times bestselling author Walter Mosley is the mysterious story of a young Black man who agrees to an unusual bargain to save the home that has belonged to his family for generations.
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess...
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. The stranger offers him $50,000 in cash to spend the summer in Charles's basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Autobots and their human comrades have been separated, following the destruction of their headquarters, and Optimus Prime is badly injured. Unfortunately, it is just the beginning of their troubles, as the powerful Decepticon Shockwave has come to Earth with his newest weapon: a clone of one of Cybertron's most ancient and fearsome beasts, Predaking. Now it's up the Autobots and their allies, both old and new, to reunite and protect the world...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Arcee, Ratchet, Bulkhead, and many others are back to roll out against Megatron's latest attempt to conquer Earth. And Megatron proves to be more powerful than ever, having acquired a rare element that allows him mastery over life itself. Team Prime may be few against the Decepticon hordes, but they find increased strength via bonds forged with three human teenagers. Make no mistake, Transformers Prime delivers heavy metal...
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It's been nearly 30 years since Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now, a new team, led by physicist Ben Song, has been assembled to restart the project in hope of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it. Everything changes, however, when Ben makes an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving the team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it. At Ben's side throughout his leaps...
9) Congo
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A primatologist who is attempting to return his sign-language-trained ape to the jungle is joined by a diamond-seeking explorer and a member of a communications company looking for her colleagues who disappeared while searching for industrial diamonds.
An expedition to return a gorilla to Africa and find the Lost City of Zinj and its diamond mines encounters a variety of dangers.
In Congo, Charles Travis is testing a communication system by laser...
10) Ghostbusters 2
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[1989, 2005]
Language
English
Description
The ghost battling parapsychologists are back to fight the supernatural ill will that's been building up under New York.
Home use only.
11) God's not dead 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Christian teacher is forced before a judge for honestly answering a question about Jesus in the classroom. With the principal and superintendent joining forces with a zealous civil liberties group, Grace faces an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom.
13) Champions
Publisher
Focus Features, Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A former minor-league basketball coach is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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 pulic 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.
Publisher
RHI Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mercy mission: A determined commercial airline pilot with a plane full of passengers is the only hope for a single-engine aircraft lost over 20,000 miles of empty ocean. (92 min.).
Nowhere to land: A 747 en route from Sydney to Los Angeles is armed and dangerous, thanks to an onboard biochemical bomb. With nothing but ocean below and time running out in the air, veteran pilot Captain John Prescott has only his experience and his courage to rely on...
16) Redemption day
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Having just returned home, decorated U.S. Marine Captain Brad Paxton's wife, Kate, is kidnapped by a terrorist group while working in Morocco. He is forced back into action for a daring and deadly operation to save the woman he loves.
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Teamed with his friends Mickey, Neutron and Pedro, high school student Jim Carroll seems headed for a bright basketball career. But when pressures from his coach, his mom, and school seem to mount, Jim finds solace in all the wrong places, and the dark streets of New York begin to tear him apart.
18) Ghostbusters
Series
Language
English
Description
When ghosts go on a rampage, only three men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face the supreme challenge If you want your spirits raised, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!
19) The crow
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A murdered man comes back to avenge his death and to protect the innocent.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Ghostbusters, the doctors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz and Egon Spengler suddenly find themselves downsized from the University's parapsychology department. They then decide to go the entrepreneurial route, chasing down ghostly ghosts and apparitions. In Ghostbusters 2, the three doctors regroup to nuke the spooks in this comedy. Sidelined after their spectacular save of New York Ciy five years ago, the heroes of the hereafter once again answer the...