Kenneth Branagh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Narnia volume Book 1
Formats
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.
6) Belfast
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A poignant story of love, laughter, and loss in one boy's childhood, amid the music and social tumult of the late 1960s.
7) Thor
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Aboard a Nile steamer, Hercule Poirot meets Linnet Doyle, a woman who appears to have everything: youth, beauty, wealth, and a loving husband. But the husband was stolen from her friend Jacqueline de Bellefort, who has been haunting the newlyweds path, showing up to wreak havoc in their plans. They have secretly booked passage on the steamer to escape, but still, tragedy strikes: Linnet is shot through the head. As the complications multiply, Poirot...
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The author tells the story of how Shakespeare conceived and wrote one of his greatest plays. He shows us the sources Shakespeare used and aquaints us with the actors who formed his troupe. We see the economic worries that plagued them, and watch the performance being mounted.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
12) Sleuth
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Remake of the 1972 film in which a mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to his house and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him, only to have the games returned in revenge.
14) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
15) Oppenheimer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In the summer of 1956, 23-year-old Colin Clark, determined to make his way in the film business, worked as a lowly assistant on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, the film that famously united Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. When his diary account was published, one week was missing. This is the story of that week: an idyll in which he escorted a Monroe desperate to get away from Hollywood hangers-on and the pressures of work.
17) Valkyrie
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Based on the incredible true story of Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his ingenious assassination plot targeting Adolf Hitler, this engrossing thriller reenacts the daring operation to eliminate one of the most evil tyrants the world has ever known.
18) Wallander
Series
Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In An Event in autumn, Wallander finds the remains of a young woman buried at the back of his garden. When another woman's body washes up on the shore, Wallander searches for the connection. In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men, covered in mafia tattoos, are discovered in Ystad Harbor. When Wallander travels to Riga in search of the killers, he becomes entangled in a web of corruption. And in Before the frost, a childhood friend of...
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Journey into a strange world where flightless terror birds as tall as a man can kill with a single snap of their powerful beaks. Early ancestors of man struggle for power and territory trying to defend themselves against saber-tooth tiger attacks. This begins with the end of the dinosaurs and ends with the rise of the first humans.
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