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Language
English
Description
Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The unhippest guy in the room is going to crack you up. Jim Gaffigan is the nice guy next door- with more than a hint of the devil in him. A regular of The Ellen Show and That '70s Show, the versatile actor shows his unique style of humor.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
More than puppy love: Steve, a rambunctious teen, has been causing quite a headache for his mother. To teach him a lesson in responsibility, she signs him up to be a foster caretaker of a puppy from the Kansas Specialty Dog Service. Steve chooses Banner, a loveable Labrador that he welcomes home with the help of his younger sister, Emily. The foster program only lasts for one year, and Emily struggles to understand why they can't keep Banner forever....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertanment
Pub. Date
[2007?]
Language
English
Description
Patch Adams: A doctor emphasizes humor in his care of patients, at risk to his career.
What dreams may come: Chris Nielsen dies and is united with his children, who died before him, in a beautiful afterlife, but must risk his own future to rescue his wife from her fate.
Publisher
Time-Life Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Pickin' and ginnin', singin' and spinnin' tall tales and corny jokes, the citizens of Kornfield Kounty landed on television as a summer replacement in 1969. Each week co-hosts Buck Owens and Roy Clark and a cast of comedians and musicians would welcome the biggest stars in country music to perform their songs and help deliver the classic one-liners.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Private Benjamin: A pampered, spoiled upper-middle class widow joins the army and the army will never be the same. Protocol: A daffy Washington D.C. waitress saves a visiting Arab dignitary from an assassination attempt and goes from serving drinks to serving her country in the State Department's protocol branch.
Publisher
PC Treasures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Flying deuces: Wanting to forget the romantic troubles of his past, Ollie persuades Stanley to join the French Foreign Legion with him. Before they know what is happening, Ollie ends up reincarnated as a mule. At war with the Army: Alvin Corwin is low man on the totem pole, and goes from one mishap to another at an army training camp in World War II.
11) Rodrick rules
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.-"Whatever you do, don't ask Greg Heffley about his summer vacation. As Greg enters the new school year, he's eager to put the events of the past three months behind him ... and one event in particular. Greg knows...
12) The last straw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Greg Heffley nimbly sidesteps his father's attempts to change Greg's wimpy ways until his father threatens to send him to military school.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Episodes from the first season of the Sanford and son about Fred Sanford who owns a junkyard shop with his son, Lamont. Fred is a widower and Lamont is always trying to get his father to go out, be active, and get involved with a variety of projects, but Fred just wants to hang out around his shop with his cronies.
14) Old school
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
15) The Wipers Times
Publisher
Trademark Productions Limited
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It's 1916 and British Captain Fred Roberts and his detachment discover an abandoned printing press in the ruins of Ypres, Belgium. Roberts has an idea, he will produce a newspaper to raise the spirits of his soldiers, taking their minds off 'the attentions of Messrs Hun and Co.' They call it The Wipers Times, after the army slang for Ypres, and fill it with spoofs, jokes, and subversive comedy. A hit with the troops on the Western Front, it also incurs...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion ... she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas. Olive braces herself for...
17) Mystery girl
Author
Publisher
New Harvest
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Taking a job as an assistant to housebound detective Solar Lonsky, failed Los Angeles novelist Sam Kornberg tackles an assignment to track a mysterious woman in a case marked by sexy doppelgangers, mental asylums, and video-store geekery.
19) A man called Ove
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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It was love at first con. Find out how FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare and con artist Nicolas Fox first met in this exclusive eBook original short story!
Con man Nick Fox is after Garson Klepper’s golden Peruvian relics. For Fox, convincing Klepper to hire him as security for the relocation of the relics to the Getty museum in L.A. was easy. Problem is, Fox wasn’t planning on Klepper also enlisting the help of...
Con man Nick Fox is after Garson Klepper’s golden Peruvian relics. For Fox, convincing Klepper to hire him as security for the relocation of the relics to the Getty museum in L.A. was easy. Problem is, Fox wasn’t planning on Klepper also enlisting the help of...