Patrick Stewart
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
A mass-market paperback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge-not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume Book 1
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Description
All seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia are now available together in a hardcover volume which includes an essay by C. S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children, where he explains precisely how the magic of Narnia first came to life.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Powerful beyond measure, the Borg, an infinitely commanding civilization of enhanced humanoids from the Delta Quadrant, have for centuries conquered entire worlds. Endowed with the ability to assimilate civilizations and their technologies, these cyborgs grow more potent, more immense and more deadly with each conquest.
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Chicken Little causes widespread panic when he mistakes a falling acorn for a piece of the sky. After the fall out, the youngster becomes determined to restore his reputation . But just as things are starting to go his way, a real piece of the sky lands on his head. Chicken Little and his band of misfit friends, Abby Mallard (aka Ugly Duckling), Runt of the Litter and Fish Out of Water, attempt to save the world without sending the town into a whole...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Special features Disc 1: Enhanced Viewing Mode containing 6 deleted scenes and 17 behind-the scenes featurettes Disc 2: Introduction by Bryan Singer The Uncanny Suspects pre-production featurette X-Factor: The Look of the X-Men Costume featurette The Special Effects of the X-Men visual-effects featurette Animatic-to-film comparisons Reflection of the X-Men retrospective featurette Exclusive movie premiere footage from...
7) Macbeth
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Adaptation of the stage production which relocates the action to a nameless 20th-century underground facility, offering a parable of the quest for power in the modern world.
Pub. Date
c2005
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Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crashes nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. Set 1,000 years after a global war that nearly destroyed all life on Earth.
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Description
Doctor Strange tampers with a risky forbidden spell that alters time and space and accidentally opens a gateway to the multiverse. Together with the Scarlet Witch and the unflappable Wong, Doctor Strange confronts countless dangers in strange and mysterious alternate realities to attempt to restore a single stable reality. As they travel through myriad different layers of the multiverse, they face down a new yet unsettlingly familiar adversary that...
11) The emoji movie
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Description
In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, who is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become normal, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and Jailbreak. Together, these unlikely heroes embark on an epic app-venture through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the code that will fix Gene!
Series
Description
Seven decades after retired Starfleet officer James T. Kirk is swept out into space, Captain Jean Luc Picard and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue an El Aurian physicist named Soran. Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbors a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now Picard's only hope for a future rests within the Nexus--a mysterious energy ribbon, and a legendary captain from the past.
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Called to the neutral zone to help negotiate peace between the Romulans and the Federation, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted by the mysterious new Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a man who claims to be Picard's clone, and who plans to lead a Romulan attack on the Federation.
15) X-Men
Description
As the public becomes aware of genetic mutants with special powers, prejudice grow against them. Professor Xavier brings them together to harness their powers for the good of mankind and to combat the evil Magneto who wants to wage war with typical humans.
Description
You don't have to ask him. New York cab driver and conspiracy buff Jerry Fletcher tells anyone in earshot about the secret movers, shakers and assassins who really control things. When he tries to put Justice Department attorney Alice Sutton in the know, he's run out of her office. Soon both will be running for their lives.
Pub. Date
2014
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Description
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past; to save our future.
18) Logan
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
A collection of four episodes that presents a journey to places no one has ever seen, and offers experiences that can only be imagined. See the violent upheavals of the Earth's geography, and travel from the highest peaks to the red-hot center of the planet. Crawl into spectacular caves, including terrain on which no human has ever tread. Face the extremes the future could hold, from a vanishing rainforest to the eye of a hurricane.
20) 500 nations
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabitated North America for over 15,000 years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.
