Rachel Ward
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Terry Brogan, a cynical ex-football star, is hired to find Jessie Wyler, the runaway mistress of a ruthless L.A. nightclub owner, Jake Wise. According to Jake, Jessie had stabbed him and vanished with $50,000. But Terry's mission is soon forgotten when he tracks down the beautiful Jessie on a Mexican island and falls in love with her.
6) Num8ers
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
8) Blackbeard
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the 18th century, Blackbeard stood out among the lawless rogues as the most fearsome and notorious seafarer of them all. He killed for the reputation which is now legend. The true story of pirate Edward Teach, the man who terrorized the seas.
10) The thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
13) On the beach
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
An ex-boxer seems the perfect pawn to pull off a kidnapping planned by a sexy widow and a cop-turned-con man. When he realizes he's been manipulated, he turns the tables with a game of deceit and raw desire that can only end in death.
16) Red rage
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mara, who has a violent temper, uses rage to offer her relief from the world, but when an unspeakable event occurs, she is forced to look inward and discover something about herself.
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In the first year of Wyoming's statehood, fresh battle lines are drawn pitting cattle barons against the newly arrived homesteaders. The three Hammett brothers are divided on the issue and must work out their differences in the midst of war.
Publisher
Essential Media and Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Meet Australian criminal barrister Cleaver Greene, reckless, brilliant and self-destructive. To jurors, he is hilarious, to judges an outrage, to a certain brothel owner a legend and to his former cocaine dealer, tragic loss. While his ex-wife may call him unreliable, his son calls him a mate. Despite his personal hopelessness, Cleaver will do whatever it takes to defend and save life's truly lost souls.
20) Fortress
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In the Australian Outback, a resourceful schoolteacher and her class must save themselves from four masked gunmen.