Alan Cumming
1) Leviathan
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
The award-winning actor, writer and activist presents a collection of outrageous and poignant stories and photographs from his personal life, from his awkward entertainment of Elizabeth Taylor at Carrie Fisher's birthday party to chasing down Oprah at a glitzy gala to secure a photo for a friend.
5) Emma
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Emma brings to life Jane Austen's novel about a woman who makes it her goal to 'fix' the lives of all her friends while ignoring her own problems.
Series
The good wife volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
Description
An assassination attempt is made on the life of the president by a teleporting mutant. This act upsets the entire world and entices the president to begin the mutant-human war as predicted by Charles Xavier earlier. In an effort to get to the bottom of the attack and prevent world-wide war, Xavier sends out Storm and Dr. Jean Grey to search for the teleporting mutant and discover the truth behind the assassination attempt.
Series
Goodwife volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
9) Koala Kid
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Johnny is a rare white koala bear who just wants to fit in and make friends in the Australian outback. But when a twist of fate mistakenly transforms him into a fearless protector of animals named the Koala Kid, Johnny finds himself in over as head in a thrilling cross-country trek to outwit a villainous crocodile named Bog.
10) Burlesque
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Ali is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger than life voice causes a charismatic entrepreneur to make...
11) Tin Man
Pub. Date
[2008].
Description
Dorothy Gale, a.k.a. DG, is all grown up and bored. She mopes around working as a waitress and goes to school part time. Before she knows it, she's back in OZ and on the run from the evil sorceress Azkadellia, her storm troopers and clumsy bats. Along the way she falls in with some strange characters including the brainless Glitches; Raw, a cowardly and psychic lion-man hybrid; and, Wyatt Cain, a cowboy cop from Central City called a 'tin man' because...
12) Spy Kids
Author
Description
Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez were the top secret agents: masters of disguise, mavens of invention, able to stop wars before they could start. They worked for different countries until they were assigned to kill each other. They fell in love instead, and embarked on the most dangerous mission they had ever faced: raising a family. Nine years later, the disappearances...
13) Titus
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Appears on list
Description
In the wake of the sexual revolution and the rise of the women's movement, the 1973 tennis match between women's world champion Billie Jean King and ex-men's-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time, reaching 90 million viewers around the world. As the rivalry between King and Riggs kicked into high gear, off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles.
15) Buddy
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Eccentric socialite Gertrude "Trudy" Lintz, adopts a baby gorilla into her already-bustling animal menagerie. Along with chimpanzees Maggie and Joe, Buddy gets into all kinds of hilarious monkey business and proceeds to drive everyone bananas.
16) The tempest
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
17) The tempest
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
18) Happily Ever Esther: two men, a wonder pig, and their life-changing mission to give animals a home
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
When Steve Jenkins and Derek Walter decide to start a farm with the animals' benefit in mind, they quickly realize the realities of being a farmer can be frantic, crazy, and even insane.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.