Nick Castle
Pub. Date
[2009]
Formats
Description
Alex is an 18-year old Earthling who has an extraordinary talent for video game wizardry and conquers the Starfighter game. He is then recruited by alien Centauri to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park existence, he heads to the outer regions of space. Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds, including Earth.
2) Halloween
Formats
Description
It's 40 years after killer Michael Myers wreaked his havoc on Halloween night. Laurie Strode remembers the horrific event from her first-hand experience of it all. Although Myers has been imprisoned, Strode has been preparing herself for the chance that he'll somehow get out to embark on another killing spree. When Myers does, Strode will be ready to try to end the killer's murderous ways, once and for all. Will she prevail if she and Myers come face-to-face...
3) Hook
Formats
Description
Peter Banning is a 40-year-old acquisitions attorney who has forgotten how to let the child within himself take flight. When his children are kidnapped by his old nemesis, Captain Hook, he is forced to fight his fears and make a fantastic return to Neverland.
4) Hook
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Peter Pan returns to the Island of Lost Boys when Captain Hook steals Peter's children.
5) August Rush
Description
There's music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there's hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can. The music mysteriously draws him penniless and alone to New York City in a quest to find - somehow someway - the parents separated from him years earlier. And along the way he may also find the musical genius hidden within him. Experience the magic of this rhapsodic epic of the heart starring Freddie Highmore (as August) Keri Russell...
6) Major Payne
Pub. Date
1999
Description
When peace breaks out in America, killing machine Major Benson Winifred Payne, United States Marine Corps Special Forces, is given his marching orders--to the unemployment line. Unable to cope with civilian life, Payne is thrust back into the military regimen as commander of the Madison Academy Junior ROTC.
7) Major Payne
Pub. Date
1999
Description
An unemployed Marine major ends up teaching a junior ROTC program.
8) August Rush
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Having been orphaned and working as a street musician, a musically talented kid uses his gift to find his birth parents.
9) Connors' war
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
After losing his eyesight during a sabotaged CIA operation, Special Agent Connors agrees to be injected with an experimental serum that promises to cure his blindness. Armed with his new extraordinary eyesight, Connors successfully completes a daring mission for his former mentor--only to discover he's been tricked into stealing a deadly chemical bomb intended for a twisted act of terrorism.
10) The seat filler
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A struggling law student takes a job as an awards show seat filler. One day he is seated next to the beautiful pop star Jnelle, who mistakes him for an industry executive. When the two fall in love, he must chose between his conscience and true love.
Description
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a prison which houses the world's most brutal inmates. And when the President of the United States crash lands outside, only one man can bring him back: Snake Plissken, a notorious outlaw and former Special Forces war hero who, in exchange for a full pardon, descends into the decayed city and wages a blistering war against the captors. But time is short: in 24 hours,...
13) Tap
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Max Washington is a promising but disillusioned tap dancer who must resolve the conflict between his craft and the fast track life of a high-stakes thief.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"After Earthling Alex (Lance Guest) conquers the Starfighter video game, he is recruited by alien Centauri (Robert Preston) to be part of an elite legion of fighters. Leaving behind his trailer park home for the outer regions of space, Alex becomes the last hope for the beleaguered Star League and hundreds of worlds -- including Earth."--Container.
15) August Rush
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Kindergarten cop: A veteran detective is forced to go undercover as a kindergarten teacher in order to trap an elusive criminal.
Problem child: A good-natured man and his social-climbing wife adopt a seven-year-old boy to brighten their lives. But Junior soon turns ordinary events into comic nightmares.
Kicking & screaming: Family man Phil Weston, a lifelong victim of his father's competitive nature, takes on the coaching duties of a kids' soccer...
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