Donald Sutherland
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
940L
Summary
This is the author's story of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. The battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks. The story combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic.
2) The Mechanic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Summary
Arthur Bishop is an assassin with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection, and he is the best in the business. But when Harry, his mentor and friend is murdered, Bishop wants those responsible dead. After Harry's son approaches him with the same vengeful goal, Bishop takes the impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born. However, deceptions will surface, and those...
Pub. Date
c2008
Summary
Journey back 4,500 years to unlock the secrets of the world's most enduring archaeological mystery. This television program presents world-renowned archaeologists as they reveal a revolutionary new theory about who built Stonehenge and why. Thanks to a recent discovery of a lost city just two miles from the famous stone circle, our understanding of this era is now transformed.
4) The Eagle
Pub. Date
[2011]
Summary
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander of the Ninth. Accompanied only by his British slave Esca, Marcus sets out across Hadrian's Wall into the uncharted highlands of Caledonia to confront its savage tribes, make peace with his father's memory, and...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
11 year-old Milton Adams is growing up in an uncertain world full of bullies. With his parents constantly stressing about their careers and finances, and the neighborhood bully tormenting him, Milton's world is in crisis. But when his Grandpa comes to visit, he discovers worrying about the future only make things worse.
Summary
The brash flyboys of Team Daedalus trained body and mind for America's leap into space. Then, with the formation of NASA, they were replaced by trained chimpanzees. Four decades later, the old-school test pilots, with their grasp of outdated technology, are the only ones able to repair Russia's primitive, deorbiting satellite that threatens to crash to earth.
Pub. Date
2014
Summary
When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
10) Moonfall
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
A mysterious force knocks the Moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurdling on a collision course with life, as we know it. With mere weeks before impact and the world on the brink of annihilation, NASA executive and former astronaut Jo Fowler is convinced she has the key to saving us all, but only one astronaut from her past, Brian Harper and a conspiracy theorist K.C. Houseman believe her. These unlikely heroes will mount an impossible...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
Inspired by actual events, Trust delves into the trials and triumphs of one of Americas wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys. Equal parts family history, dynastic saga and an examination of the power of money, the show explores the complexities at the heart of every family, rich or poor. Told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty...
Summary
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
15) Treasure Island
Pub. Date
[2012]
Summary
Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can successfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.
16) Fallen
Summary
Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met, already caught and already killed.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Based on the true story of The Bell Witch of Tennessee. In 1818, slight, unexplained noises were heard. As the spirit grew, it singled out the father, John, and his daughter, Betsy. The family tried to search for the cause of the spirit in the hope of finding a way to defeat it. The spirit developed voices and began speaking to the family, but refused to say why it was there. Finally it pronounced a death sentence on John and within a year, he was...
18) Basmati blues
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
It is a musical comedy that follows Linda Watt, a sheltered but brilliant young scientist who is plucked out of her company's lab and sent to India by her CEO to sell "Rice 9, " a genetically modified rice she's created, unaware that the rice will destroy the Indian farmers she thinks she's helping.
19) A Time to kill
Pub. Date
1997
Summary
A murder trial brings a small Mississippi town's racial tension to the flashpoint. Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamor and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
In the town of Kingsbridge during the middle of the twelfth century, the lives of those who are working to build the most amazing Gothic cathedral in the world become entwined through their ambitions, loves, and tribulations. At once, this is a sensuous and enduring love story and an epic that shines with the fierce spirit of a passionate age.