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Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.
When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica to the Solomon Islands, Michael Crichton mixes cutting edge science and action-packed adventure,...
4) Split second
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Two retired Secret Service agents have each had similar experiences losing presidential candidates while assigned to protect them. As the discredited agents enter a maze of lies, secrets, and deadly coincidences, they uncover a shocking truth: that the separate acts of violence that shattered their lives were really a long time in the making--and are a long way from over.
5) Arbitrage
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Miller is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all: money, power, a loving wife, and a devoted daughter working by his side. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is running on borrowed time, trying to unload his crippled trading company before his frauds are revealed. A deadly error throws Miller's life into a tailspin, raising the suspicions of a detective and threatening the future of his financial empire.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-five episodes inspired by the dark humor of Roald Dahl, this series of brilliantly written and acted standalone suspense stories was an instant hit that became an international phenomenon that starred a cavalcade of top stars. Seasons 1 & 2.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When lawyer Gabriel John Utterson witnesses the odd behavior of a man named Edward Hyde, who uses cheques signed by Utterson's friend Dr. Henry Jekyll, he decides to investigate the strange and violent man. Utterson soon discovers the horrible and incredible truth in the form of a letter written by Dr. Jekyll and left near the body of the late Mr. Hyde.
Author Robert Louis Stevenson is believed to have had a somewhat volatile relationship with...
11) Mystic river
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood.
When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their...
12) Metro girl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Bill Barnaby has disappeared and his sister Alex heads for Miami to hunt him down and finds herself battling hit men, international intrigue, and a good-looking NASCAR driver, Sam Hooker, who is also looking for Bill.
13) The town
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doug MacRay is leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Special features include the extended cut.
14) Courting trouble
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Anne Murphy is the redheaded rookie at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato & Associates, and one morning she wakes up to front-page headlines proclaiming lawyer murdered -- above her own picture. If she wants to stay alive, she's got to play dead. She'll have to trust people she barely knows -- colleagues who hate her, homicide cops who want her out of the crime-fighting business, and a new love who inconveniently happens to be opposing counsel. But...
15) Next: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Crichton, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park , comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics as it's happening now, told as only Michael Crichton can tell it, with lightening fast pacing and thrilling chases. Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future -- it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct?...
16) Inside man.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
17) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels' routine investigation at the hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island takes a sinister turn as the investigation unfolds.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ben Affleck is ready for action, commanding the role of CIA agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller. America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when the CIA suspects that renegade Russian scientists are developing more nuclear weapons. Mobilized into action by CIA Director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman),...
19) Twin Peaks
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Includes both seasons of this Golden Globe-winning series. Follow FBI special agent Dale Cooper as he tries to hunt down just who killed Laura Palmer in the sleepy town of Twin Peaks, Washington.
20) The tourist
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank, a mild-mannered American on vacation in Venice, becomes unexpectedly involved with a beautiful woman Elise, but as their whirlwind romance quickly evolves, they find themselves thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse.
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