Joe Morton
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Language
English
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
2) The march
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient...
4) Africa
Publisher
National Geographic Television
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
An unprecedented look at the continent of Africa, as seen through the eyes of the African people. Experience the skills needed to survive, not only the climate, but the social and economic conditions as well.
5) Freedomland
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates an emotionally charged story of a white woman who claims her son has been kidnapped and a black detective who suspects her of infanticide.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Small town. Big secret. A car accident leads U.S. Marshal Jack Carter into the top-secret Pacific Northwest town of Eureka. For decades, the United States government has relocated the world's geniuses to Eureka, a town where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. This season finds Carter reeling from his dismissal and looking for a new job when catastrophic occurences pull him back.
Language
English
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Description
In the year 2029, a computer called Skynet is fighting against a human resistance force, after having nearly destroyed the rest of humanity in 1997. Skynet has found a way to send some of its warriors, called Terminators, back in time, back to 1995. A new prototype liquid metal Terminator is sent to kill the 10-year John Connor, who will become the resistance leader. To counter this assassination attempt, John sends back a reprogrammed Terminator...
11) Speed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the quirky town of Eureka, America's brightest scientists are working on some of the government's best-kept secrets-- some lead to brilliant inventions and some to total chaos. Making sense of the mysteries is Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the surreal small town after a random car accident.
18) Willie the Lion
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Documentary on jazz pianist, Willie "The Lion" Smith. One of the creators of a new stomping piano style known as "Harlem Stride," Smith was a captivating showman, a decorated war hero, a cantor in a Harlem synagogue, a teacher of young musicians like Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk, and a composer of over hundred songs, including some of the most exquisite tunes in the jazz repertoire. Featuring performances by Willie the Lion Smith,...
19) Speed
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Jack Traven, an L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist who is sent to diffuse a bomb that a revenge-driven extortionist has planted on a bus. But until he does, Jack and passenger must keep the bus speeding through the streets of Los Angeles at more than 50 miles per hour-- or the bomb will explode.
20) Paycheck
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by his friend Rethrick to do a special job, with the promise of a multi-million dollar paycheck when sucessfully completed. When he is finished, all memory of what he had been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted by the FBI for something he has no recollection of doing and has little time to work it out. Before his memory...