Joan Allen
Author
Language
English
Description
This is the true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it, by building her own business, raising a family in the Wild West, working to get women the vote for the first time, AND becoming the first female judge and the first woman in the US to hold a political office!
Author
Language
English
Description
Receive God's love-it's for everyone.
This is a true story about how God works in the lives of ordinary people who put their trust in Him, Jesus Christ. It brings miracles into everyday situations and invites readers to believe for themselves so that they can see miracles in their lives. It covers all kinds of situations, from salvation to baptism of the Holy Spirit to healings and deliverances, knowing God intimately to crisis and prosperity. As...
Author
Language
English
Description
State of Terror follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage. A series of terrorist attacks throws the global order into disarray and the secretary is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the deadly conspiracy, a scheme carefully designed to take advantage of an American government dangerously out of touch and...
8) Death race
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
Speedway champion Jensen Ames is framed for a murder he did not commit, but is given a chance to win his freedom if he competes against violent criminals in a cross-country road race.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if your pain and lack of mobility aren't due to your age, but your habits? The instructions in this book are the experiences of four women over seventy-five who have used these principles and exercises for years to regain strength and mobility. Bowman shows how anyone over fifty can improve their whole-body mobility-- and move and feel better-- without special equipment. -- condensed from back cover.
10) The ice storm
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's emotional crises in the suburbs of the '70s during an ice storm.
12) Off the map
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and come to terms with love and loss.
15) The almost moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over...
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Following the shocking murder of her former lover, detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) joins her partner Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) in a race to destroy evidence that would implicate Linden in the crime. Meanwhile, the two must resolve a case involving the horrifying slaying of a prominent family whose son is enrolled in a respected military academy."-- Container.
17) Blessings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Late one night, a teenage couple drives up to the big white clapboard home on the Blessing estate and leaves a box. In that instant, the lives of those who live and work there are changed forever. Skip Cuddy, the caretaker, finds a baby girl asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep the child . . . while Lydia Blessing, the matriarch of the estate, for her own reasons, agrees to help him. Blessings explores how the secrets of the past...
19) Unless
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Language
English
Description
"[Shields is] unsparing as she explores the black holes of uncertainty in women's lives . . . these are the dark thoughts of an illuminating novel." —Chicago Tribune
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
For all of her life, forty-four-year-old...
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
For all of her life, forty-four-year-old...
20) Georgia O'Keeffe
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe and her tumultuous relationship with photographer Alfred Stieglitz.