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(0)Kate Mulgrew
Author
Language
English
Description
A star known for her strong female roles in Star Trek: Voyager and Orange Is the New Black offers a deeply moving account of the price and rewards of a passionate life.
Raised by unconventional Irish Catholics who knew "how to drink, how to dance, how to talk, and how to stir up the devil," Kate Mulgrew grew up with poetry and drama in her bones. But in her mother, a would-be artist burdened by the endless arrival of new babies, young Kate saw the...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and New York Times bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's,...
3) The Fireman
Author
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
4) The son
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Comanche Indian captive Eli McCullough must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong -- a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The complete fourth season of Star Trek Voyager (26 original broadcast episodes) along with brand-new featurettes: Braving the unknown : season foour; Time capsule : seven of nine; Time capsule : Harry Kim; The birth of species 8472; The art of alien worlds; pnoto gallery.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
It follows the intergalactic adventures of six teenagers as they try to escape from their cruel past and look to the stars for hope and salvation aboard an abandoned Federation starship. These outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered a first in the history of Star Trek but throughout their adventures together, they are introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents. Contains Episodes 1-10.
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 9
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows ninety-two-year-old Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, as she joins her former tenant Brian on a road trip to Nevada where she attends to unfinished business she has long avoided.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Season three of the popular Netflix original series about Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a classy woman in her thirties who is sentenced to prison after being convicted of a ten-year-old crime of trafficking money for her drug-dealer girlfriend.
12) NOS4A2
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
Series
Orange Is the New Black volume 1
Publisher
Lions Gate Television ; Tilted Productions
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
New faces and old resentments make for a potentially volatile blend, especially now that Litchfield is a for-profit business. This season delves into the racial and economic tensions that run rampant in the halls of Litchfield. Overrun with new inmates and overseen by inexperienced guards, the prison undergoes an unprecedented culture war.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A transporter malfunctions and fuses Lt. Tuvok and Neelix into one dysfunctional being. Then, Tuvok tries to comprehend the thought processes of a psychopathic killer and gets his own mind twisted in the process. Then Janeway's resolve is tested and we learn how far she's willing to go to protect her ship and crew.
Publisher
CBS Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An alien crashes deep into the oilfields of New Mexico with a mission: he must find the brilliant scientist Justin Falls, the one woman on earth who can help save his species. An unlikely duo, together they discover that in order to save his world, they must first save ours. An inspired continuation of the novel by Walter Tevis and the iconic 1976 film starring David Bowie. This three-disc collection includes all ten episodes plus featurettes and...
19) The captains
Publisher
E-One
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Since first soaring onto television screens in the mid 1960s, Star Trek has become one of the most beloved franchises of all time. The original Captain Kirk, William Shatner, travels around the globe to interview the elite group of actors who have portrayed the role of Enterprise Captain, giving fans an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the pop culture phenomenon.
