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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
2) Mad honey
Author
Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse....
Publisher
Distributed by Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004, 2002.
Language
English
Description
Lou Delamere seems to have it all: fame, money, and a beautiful best friend, Alex. When she and Alex retreat to her estate on Shelter Island looking to relax, they find themselves trapped by a severe storm and cut off from all communication. Soon a stranger knocks at the door and a dangerous game begins where no one is who he appears to be.
6) Brimstone
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A triumphant thriller set in the menacing inferno of the old American West, Brimstone tells the story of Liz, a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful Preacher for a crime she didn't commit.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--
The automobile industry has abandoned Vacca Vale, Indiana, leaving the residents behind, too. In a run-down apartment building on the edge of town, commonly known as the Rabbit Hutch, a number of people now reside quietly, looking for ways to live in a dying city. Apartment C2 is lonely and detached. C6 is aging and stuck....
9) La ceremonie
Series
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Catherine hires the illiterate Sophie to work as her maid at her remote home in the French countryside. But Sophie soon falls under the influence of the mysterious Jeanne and suddenly the stage is set for murder, violence and betrayal.
12) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Follows a troubled man, Bill Foster, who has a mental breakdown and embarks upon an increasingly violent crime spree across Los Angeles. A police detective, Sgt. Prendergast, who is working his last day before retiring, is the only one who correctly pieces together the clues. Prendergast races to find and arrest Foster before the dangerous and unpredictable man reaches his destination: his ex-wife and young daughter.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When, after seeing a meteor fall from the sky, citizens of a small town discover that they have no power or telephone service, they begin to panic and become increasingly violent as they await the arrival of monsters from outer space.
Author
Series
Modern filmmakers
Introduction violently original Murder most simple Blood simple Babies bikers and buffoons Raising Arizona The professional kill Miller's crossing Life of the imaginary mind Barton Fink Reinventing the circle of suicide The Hudsucker proxy What's the deal with greed and wood chippers? Fargo Abiding by Chandler The big Lebowski Three convicts and the KKK O brother where art thou? Cutting Cain's law The man who wasn't there Cruel intentions Intolerable cruelty The killing joke The ladykillers The unrelenting country No country for old men Burning paranoia Burn after reading
Introduction violently original Murder most simple Blood simple Babies bikers and buffoons Raising Arizona The professional kill Miller's crossing Life of the imaginary mind Barton Fink Reinventing the circle of suicide The Hudsucker proxy What's the deal with greed and wood chippers? Fargo Abiding by Chandler The big Lebowski Three convicts and the KKK O brother where art thou? Cutting Cain's law The man who wasn't there Cruel intentions Intolerable cruelty The killing joke The ladykillers The unrelenting country No country for old men Burning paranoia Burn after reading
Publisher
Praeger
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One is more likely to go to prison in the USA than any other country in the world. Follow the stories of two innocent men who spent decades behind bars for murders they did not commit. With gripping testimony from inmates, guards, staff, cops, analysts, lawyers, and reformers, it exposes the failed "punishment model" and examines the dramatic programs proven to work.
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
17) Brubaker
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a reform warden who risks his life to replace brutality and corruption with humanity and integrity in a state prison farm.
18) Trust
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
Publisher
IFC Films ; [S.l.]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In 1975, 17-year-old Irish-Protestant Alistair Little assassinated the 19-year-old Catholic, Jim Griffin in his Ulster home. The murder was witnessed by Joe, Griffin's 11-year-old brother. Thirty years later, Alistair has been rehabilitated and released from prison, while Joe remains traumatized and bitter. When a television talk show decides to bring them together for a live on-air reconciliation, the two must come face-to-face with their own worlds...
20) Romper stomper
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hando (Crowe) leads a gang of skinheads that terrorize Asian immigrants in their Melbourne neighborhood. He soon meets Gabe (McKenzie), a teenage girl from a broken home. Looking for adventure, she falls in love with Hando and leaps into the careless and dangerous lifestyle of this band of racist punks. But when Gabe swaps partners for Hando's right-hand man, Davey (Pollock), she pits the two against each other leading to a shocking conclusion.