David Strathairn
Author
Language
English
Description
"Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon ... and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn...
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When Tell Sackett wakes up after being shot, his beautiful wife Ange, his wagon and the life he had planned had all disappeared. He vows to stop at nothing to find her, but when the truth comes out, it is more terrifying and more painful than he ever could have imagined.
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Tyrel Sackett was born into trouble but vowed to justice. After having to kill a man in Tennessee, he hit the trail west with his brother Orrin. Those were the years when decent men and women lived in fear of Indians, rustlers, and killers, but the Sackett brothers worked to make the West a place where people could raise their children in peace. Orrin brought law and order from Santa Fe to Montana, and his brother Tye backed him up every step of the...
5) Hondo
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
The year is 1874, and the whites have broken their treaty with the Apache Nation. Hondo, a U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider, encounters a woman and her son living alone in Apache territory, and leads them to safety, falling in love along the way.
7) Sackett
Author
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he'd wanted was...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tell Sackett has a healthy respect for the Apaches as warriors, but that doesn't stop him from crossing the border into the Sierra Madres to rescue his nephew. What bothers Tell more is the boy's mother. Could she be inventing a rescue mission that is really intended to deliver her husband's brother into an Apache ambush? Tell knows the only things he can depend on are his wits and cold steel, but this time, that may not be enough.
10) Mojave crossing
Author
Series
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...
11) Shutter Island
Author
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but uncover true wickedness as Ashcliffe's mysterious patient treatments propel them to the brink of insanity.
12) Mystic river
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do horrific...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
14) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language.
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate...
16) Temple Grandin
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
17) We are Marshall
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home from a hard-fought game in North Carolina. Less than a minute...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime, with someone who claims to be God.
After covering the war in Afghanistan, journalist Paul Asher returns home to find his life falling apart. With his marriage near collapse, he's in the grips of a personal crisis he's struggling to understand. But the young reporter's life takes a strange turn when he is offered the opportunity...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (240 mins.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented series exploring the history, impact and drama of America's highest court. ... By fusing history with biography, The Supreme Court humanizes the enigmatic black-robed figures, revealing their temperaments, passions, deeply held personal beliefs and life stories"--Slipcase.