John Fusco
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging and knowledgeable...brings magical light and clarity to veiled martial arts history. In a cocoon shell, a man 'tis not a mantis til Fusco's faithful rendering of true life hero Wong Long bugs the Shaolin elders into accepting the teachings and virtues of the world's most dynamic insect...the praying mantis.—Dr. Craig D. Reid, Martial Arts Historian"
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Cape May is America's first seaside resort, and with that comes a mouthwatering food history. The New York Times even proclaimed the city "Restaurant Capital of New Jersey." The first settlers, the Kechemeche of the Lenape tribe, feasted on the fish and wild game in the area. The whaling industry briefly brought attention to the island, but Ellis Hughes's 1801 advertisement offering seashore entertainment with "fish, oysters, crabs, and good liquors"...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join Spirit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung fu classics unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kung fu master, Lu Yan, an enigmatic and skillful Silent Monk, and the vengeance-bent Golden Sparrow. These three lead him on a quest to find the Monkey King, who has been imprisoned in stone by the evil Jade Warlord for five hundred years.
5) Crossroads
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young classically trained guitarist learns the blues from an old bluesman who supposedly got his talent to play the blues from the devil.
6) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Spirit Untamed is the next chapter in the beloved franchise full of adventure, family and friendship. Free-spirited Lucky Prescott moves to Miradero to join her estranged father. She is decidedly unimpressed with the sleepy town until she discovers a unique tie to her late mother, who was a fearless horse-riding stunt performer. She quickly forms a bond with a wild mustang named Spirit and makes two new pals who love horses as much as she does. When...
8) Hidalgo
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of Fire, by one of the leading Arabian Sheiks. The race soon...
9) Young guns
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition, widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of Billy the Kid and his gang as they move from prairie trash to demi-gods.
10) Dreamkeeper
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends .
11) Thunderheart
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a world replete with greed, betrayal, sexual intrigue and rivalry, the series is based on the famed explorer's adventures in Kublai Khan's court in thirteenth century China.
13) The shack
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.