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1) Box out
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
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English
Description
High school sophomore Liam jeopardizes his new position on the varsity basketball team when he decides to take a stand against his coach who is leading prayers before games and enforcing team wide participation.
Author
Publisher
Libertas Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Should we coerce others to get what we want? The history of the world is a tale of some people bossing others around, but brave thinkers have always offered ideas for a better future where people use persuasion instead. And after Ethan and Emily watch a dystopian film portraying a future full of coercion, they realize that they need to learn how to avoid it. Enter Murray Rothbard, author of Anatomy of the State, whose book teaches the Tuttle Twins...
3) Audacity
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English
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"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
4) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Publisher
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Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Description
Follow the adventures of Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico, four penguins who perform paramilitary missions to protect their home in the Central Park Zoo from a trio of lemurs who believe that their leader, Julien, is the Zoo's rightful ruler.
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Series
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English
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In order to seek revenge on the Sackett family whom she believes destroyed her father, Laura Pritts Sackett dupes her brother-in-law Tell into undertaking a deadly mission through Apache territory to search for her kidnapped son.
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Publisher
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English
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Reminded of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Wishbone imagines he's schoolteacher Ichabod Crane, expert on superstitions, bad luck, and ghosts, until he meet the most frightening specter of all-- the Headless Horseman
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
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English
Description
The city needs heroes. Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians. The future is grim until four unlikely outcast brothers rise from the sewers and discover their destiny as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles must work with fearless reporter April O'Neil and her wise-cracking cameraman Vern Fenwick to save the city and unravel Shredder's diabolical...
10) Ocean's 8
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English
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Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of infamous criminal mastermind Danny Ocean, seeks to carry on the family business by plotting an enormous heist on New York's annual Met Gala. After being released from prison, Debbie recruits her best friend Lou to set out and assemble a team of larcenists. This hodgepodge, seven-member team includes everyone from a street pick-pocket, a computer hacker, and a jewelry expert. The women band together to infiltrate...
11) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. Can Max and the gang...
Author
Series
Gossip girl volume 13
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to her privileged private school in New York to make amends with her best friend, Blair Waldorf, and decides the only way to set things straight is to kill Nate, the guy who came between them, while Blair has her own ideas about who should be murdered.
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Balthazar Blake is a modern-day sorcerer with his hands full defending Manhattan against dark forces. When a seemingly average kid shows hidden potential, Balthazar takes his reluctant recruit on a crash course in the art and science of magic to become the ultimate sorcerer's apprentice.
15) Cloverfield
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
New York is suddenly under attack from a Godzilla-like monster who stomps through midtown, destroying everything and everybody in sight.
17) Broken city
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Not Supplied
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English
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Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York City police officer, private detective Billy Taggart takes on his toughest case yet: when he's hired to follow the mayor's wife. By the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Taggart's already in too deep, with his freedom and possibly his life, on the line. Taggart will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth and seek redemption...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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English
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The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Language
English
Description
A young man meets his soulmate, who suffers from a memory disorder which wipes her memory clean each evening; Deuce travels to Europe and becomes a gigolo to raise money for a friend accused of murder; a young man about to get married is forced to reconnect with his deadbeat father; an overworked architect uses a magical universal remote control to rearrange and control parts of his days; an Israeli counterterrorist agent fakes his death so he can...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures.