Ron Silver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
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`When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 presidential election, fear invaded every Jewish household in America. Not only had Lindbergh, in a nationwide radio address, publicly blamed the Jews for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany, but, upon taking office as the thirty-third president of the United states, he negotiated a cordial...
2) Blind side
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Having killed a policeman with their car, a young couple is forced to take in the man who witnessed the accident. His bizarre activities terrorize them, and they soon perceive that murder is their only way out of the situation.
3) Live Wire
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Brosnan is Danny O'Neil, the FBI's ace bomb expert and "live wire." His wife is flaunting her affair with a senator, the very man he's been assigned to protect against terrorist attacks. But his biggest enemy is the one he can't see. It's a lethal new bomb disguised as water. Held by a psychopathic terrorist, it's the most undetectable and deadly weapon known to man. In the tense final minutes, O'Neil decides the fate of his wife, her lover and the...
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Broken Promises takes viewers on an exploration of many international crises from the hostility between India and Pakistan in 1947, to the Arab/Israeli conflicts of the late 1940s, to the slaughter of millions of Cambodian refugees by Pol Pot in the 1970s and the hardships and genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia, to the present day oil for food scandal
5) Red Mercury
Pub. Date
2007, c2005
Description
A London restaurant has been taken under siege by three members of a terror cell threatening the destruction of the city. A battle of wits and wills ensues between the police, the hostages, and the three young men prepared to die for their cause.
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow attempt to murder his wife Sunny at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? The tabloids of the day certainly had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favor," defense attorney Alan Dershowitz told von Bulow, "Everybody hates you." Reversal of Fortune is the acclaimed movie version of events that had all America talking.
8) Live wire
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Danny O'Neill is the FBI's ace bomb expert and "live wire." His wife is flaunting her affair with Senator Frank Travers--the very man O'Neill is assigned to protect against terrorist attacks. O'Neill's biggest enemy is a new bomb disguised as ordinary water and held by a psychopathic terrorist.
10) The arrival
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
11) Silkwood
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.
12) The ten
Pub. Date
2007
Description
No one will ever mistake Jeff Reigert for Moses, but like Moses, it is Jeff's job to introduce the world to the Ten Commandments. However, Jeff is not exactly the picture of virtue. In fact, Jeff is surrounded by gigantic replicas of the famous stone tablets. He is so busy juggling his wife Gretchen and his girlfriend, that he can barely get through a single commandment without breaking one himself.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
This revolution: A photojournalist is caught between success and ethics, and a political radical's allegiance to her cause is tested when chaos turns to violence during the Republican National Convention in NYC.
The swap: Small-time hood Vito is released from jail after serving a twelve-year sentence. His only desire is to find the killer of his younger brother Sammy, a film editor murdered ten years earlier. His search leads him to the people Sammy...
15) Steven Seagal
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Driven to kill Ruslan, a former Russian gangster who's now a successful crime novelist, goes to attend his daughter's wedding and finds out her fianc ǐs the son of his arch enemy, a crime boss.
Tunnel vision: After a serial killer is found not guilty, a man seeks revenge against the murderer for the death of his family.
Living to die: A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
C.I.A. code name, Alexa: A...