Paul Winfield
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Description
Easy Rawlins, working as a school janitor in Los Angeles, is seduced by a teacher into taking her dog, which her husband is threatening to kill. When the husband is murdered, Rawlins becomes the prime suspect and must clear his name. By the author of Black Betty.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends in indestructible cyborg, a Teminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
3) Sounder
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a black sharecropper family living in Louisiana during the Depression. The father steals food for his family and is sent to prison. While he is in jail the mother provides love, security and strength at home. The oldest son bravely becomes the man of the house until his father returns home.
4) Sounder
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of an 11-year-old black youngster, "Boy." When his sharecropper father is arrested and sentenced to five years at hard labor after stealing food to feed his family, Boy embarks upon a journey to find out where his father has being imprisoned. Accompanied by his dog Sounder, Boy also makes the arduous crossover from boyhood to manhood, with the help and sometimes hindrance of various people along the road.
5) Sounder
Publisher
Legacy Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
What begins as a two-hour road trip to a neighboring town turns into an all-day adventure for Ira and Maggie Moran.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus volume 1
Language
English
Description
The principal, Mr. Ruhle, leaves his beloved chicken, Giblets, in Dorothy Ann's care. The Friz takes the class on a field trip to see how eggs are made.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus volume 7
Language
English
Description
Ms. Frizzle's class learns all about color, light beams, reflection and refraction in this dazzling episode inside a light-powered pinball machine!
Author
Series
Magic School Bus volume 8
Language
English
Description
Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
Author
Series
Publisher
Phoenix Books, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Introducing Socrates Fortlow, an ex-con struggling to find his place in the world after 27 years in jail. Living in an abandoned apartment building in South-Central L.A., Socrates is one step away from the streets. He bags groceries at the supermarket, recycles bottles and cans for pennies, and feels himself slipping toward invisibility - until he meets 11-year-old Darryl, who is perilously close to a life of violence and bloodshed. Socrates' determination...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (243 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Star trek: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path. As it heads towards Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on.
Star trek II: Feeling that the future holds nothing close to what the past once did, Admiral James T. Kirk begins to believe that galloping...
Author
Series
Magic School Bus volume 13
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Frizzle shrinks the class and sends them inside the computer for a guided tour, everything goes haywire. How the CPU will they solve this problem?
14) Sounder
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity. After stealing to feed his family, Nathan is sent to a prison camp. In their fight for survival, his determined wife and their eldest son hold the family together. Once the boy becomes an adult, he searches for his father but instead discovers manhood.
Author
Series
Magic School Bus Space Adventures volume 3
Language
English
Description
Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
Author
Series
Magic School Bus Super Sports Fun volume 5
Language
English
Description
Gravity pulls on Phoebe, so she can't slam-dunk. Ms. Frizzle takes the class into space and turns the Bus into a planet - with adjustable gravity!
17) The Terminator
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A cyborg is sent to the past to kill the woman who will conceive the child destined to become the great liberator and arch-enemy of the Earth's future rulers.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 381 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Epic story covering a period in U.S. history from John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859 to the summer of 1865 following President Lincoln's death. Focuses on two related families living on either side of the Mason-Dixon line who find themselves at war with each other.
Author
Series
Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
203 p.
Language
English
Description
On the road in a "borrowed" '36 Ford, nineteen-year-old Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and his companion, Raymond "Mouse" Alexander, are on a perilous odyssey that takes them from Houston to a mysterious bayou world of voodoo, sex, revenge, and death. Their destination is desolate Pariah, Texas - Mouse's home once, and still home to his hated stepfather. Encountering violent and unexpected threats, Easy and Mouse forge bonds that will link them in the decades...
20) Big Shots
Author
Language
English
Description
Ivan Reitman, producer of National Lampoon ’5 Animal House and producer/director of Ghostbusters, brings you Big Shots, a slam-bang comedy-adventure with a heart as big as Chicago. It centers on the unlikely but very special friendship that develops between two 11-year-old boys. Obie is a kid from the lily-white suburbs struggling with the recent death of his father while Scam is a product of the inner city, Streetwise but equally alone. Together...