William Goldman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...
Author
Pub. Date
c.2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
As Florin and Guilder teeter on the verge of war, the reluctant Princess Buttercup is devastated by the loss of her true love, kidnapped by a mercenary and his henchmen, rescued by a pirate, forced to marry Prince Humperdinck, and rescued once again by the very crew who absconded with her in the first place. In the course of this dazzling adventure, she'll meet Vizzini the criminal philosopher who'll do anything for a bag of gold; Fezzik the gentle...
Pub. Date
1977.
Description
Late in 1944, the Allies seem to have the upper hand in the European land war. A combined British and American paratrooper force, led by American general Gavin and British general Urquhart (Sean Connery), plans to take a highway leading from the Netherlands into Germany, so that British ground troops led by Lieutenant General Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lieutenant Colonel Vandeleur (Michael Caine) can enter enemy territory. But the Allies soon learn...
10) Misery
Pub. Date
1990.
Description
A romance novel writer plans to desert the genre and write more serious literature, when his "number one" fan kidnaps him.
12) Dreamcatcher
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Four friends with an unusual power become stranded in a blizzard and are confronted by a deadly alien force. As they try to stop this unparalleled horror, the fate of the world is in their hands.
14) Marathon man
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Hoffman stars as a Columbia graduate student caught in a drama around a murderous Nazi fugitive.
15) Wild Card
Formats
Description
A bodyguard goes after the sadistic thug who beat his friend, only to find that the object of his wrath is the son of a powerful mob boss.
Series
Description
The Sundance Kid is the frontier's fastest gun. His partner, Butch Cassidy is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, put on new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend, head down to Bolivia.
17) Heat
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
A softhearted bodyguard in Las Vegas is out to protect his friends. When a mobster's son brutally beats an old flame, it ignites a tightly-wound thriller that pits the bodyguard against the mob and culminates in a vicious cat-and-mouse climax.
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