Kenneth Branagh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing the animals with human speech.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures, and epic battles between good and evil -- what more could any reader ask for in one book? The book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by Clive Staples Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia. For the past fifty years, The Chronicles of Narnia have transcended the fantasy genre...
5) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cars fly, trees fight back and a mysterious elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of the second year of his amazing journey into the world of wizardry. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, and to save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.
7) Cinderella
Series
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the transformative power of kindness with Disney's Cinderella, a modern classic that shines with beauty, imagination...and magic! Despite being bullied by her stepmother and stepsisters, a spirited Ella refuses to despair or retaliate, choosing instead to honor her mother's last words: "Have courage and be kind". Then one day, she meets a remarkable, like-minded man in the woods and she resolves to take charge of her fate in hopes of seeing...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A global action thriller set in the present day. This original story follows a young Jack as he uncovers a financial terrorist plot. When Ryan believes he's uncovered a Russian plot to collapse the United States economy, he goes from being an analyst to becoming a spy and must fight to save his own life and those of countless others, while also trying to protect the thing that's more important to him than anything: his relationship with his fiancée...
10) Thor
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen god of thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
11) Henry V
Author
Language
English
Description
A young and uncertain monarch, King Henry defeats the French, but sadly learns that victory takes it toll in bloodshed.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Language
English
Description
An elderly bird watcher falls to his death in a meticulously planned and brutal murder. In an apparently unconnected case a local man disappears and Wallander gets too close to one of the suspects. Wallander believes he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Language
English
Description
Wallander investigates the brutal slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse. A police leak of the wife's dying words leads to an outbreak of racist reprisals in Ystad. The fallout from the case leads Wallander to doubt everything, including his abilities as a police officer.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 2
Language
English
Description
Kurt Wallander is contacted by an old friend who is certain his father has been murdered. Wallander refuses to get involved as he is suspended from the police, but subsequent events convince him that there is more to the case.
Author
Language
English
Description
Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh, "Henry V") is an insomniac playwright who lives in L.A. He's now in the tenth year of a decade-long string of production flops. He finds himself bonding with a new neighbor's daughter (Robin Wright, "Forrest Gump") who has mild cerebral palsy. To top it all off, during one of his midnight walks, he meets his doppelgänger (Jared Harris, "Mad Men").
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Language
English
Description
Anna, a friend of Wallander's daughter, turns up out of the blue looking for help. When she disappears, Wallander is forced to break the silence with his daughter Linda. The investigations lead Wallander to a Christian cult, with a vendetta against modern society.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Language
English
Description
Wallander is attending a police conference in Cape Town when he's asked by the South African police to help with the case of Inga Hedeman, a Swedish voluntary worker in the townships who's been missing for ten days. A combination of gut instinct and inspired police work lead Wallander first to a deserted farmhouse where he finds evidence of Inga's presence and a severed finger...
Author
Series
Wallander volume 3
Language
English
Description
Hakon von Enke, a retired high-ranking Swedish naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest one morning. Hakon is Linda's father-in-law so when Wallander is approached by his distressed daughter, he can't help but investigate further.
Author
Series
Wallander volume 1
Language
English
Description
With the promise of a new start Kurt Wallander moves into a new home with his girlfriend Vanja. Their happiness is cut short when Wallander's dog unearths a skeleton buried in his garden. The body is of a murdered girl, dead for over ten years. Is this fate or coincidence?
Author
Series
Wallander volume 2
Language
English
Description
The search for an elderly woman who has recently gone missing from an old people's home, leads to the discovery of another murdered woman.