Ron Rifkin
1) Milkweed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The story takes us to one of the most devasting settings imaginable, Nazi-occupied Warsaw, and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.
2) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
While training to be the Receiver of Memory, Jonas experiences joy and sadness for the first time. He becomes convinced his society has given up too much, and he can no longer accept the sameness. Book #1.
4) Hooking up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Only yesterday, boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and that. Third base was oral sex. Home plate was going all the way. That was yesterday. Here in the year 2000, we can forget about necking. Today's girls and boys have never heard of anything that dainty. Today's first base is deep kissing, now known as tonsil hockey, plus groping and fondling...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the controversial master of the Broadway musical and ballet choreographer Jerome Robbins. Features excerpts from Robbins' work, including never-before-seen rehearsal footage, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jacques d'Amboise, Suzanne Farrell, Arthur Laurents, Peter Martins, Frank Rich, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harrick, Joseph Stein, and others.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Secret agent Sydney Bristow returns to settle the score once and for all. Experience the stunning action, as Sydney discovers that she is pregnant with Agent Vaughn's baby, and tragedy strikes before he can reveal more about his secret past.
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Enter the complex world of the Walkers and explore what it means to be an American family in the 21st century. Though they live very different and conflicting lives, the Walkers find unity under the family roof. Relationships bend but never break as they strive to find their own identities and embrace each other's differences.
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
As new challenges arise for the Walkers, they learn to rely on one another more than ever before. Kitty's personal revelation devastates the entire family, Nora begins a relationship with a younger man, and Justin and Rebecca's Malibu wedding doesn't quite go as planned.
10) Silent running
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him...
11) Three Hotels
Author
Language
English
Description
Masterfully written by one of America's most lauded playwrights, this deeply human story unfolds in three hotel rooms in Morocco, the Virgin Islands and Oaxaca, Mexico, as a married couple reflect on their lives as players in the game of international business. A devastating tour-de-force of humor, tragedy, and penetrating insight from one of America's premier playwrights.
Author
Language
English
Description
You're under arrest, sugah! Former Laugh-In star Teresa Graves stars as a charming police detective in this exciting television drama from Emmy-nominated director William A. Graham (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones). Get Christie Love!, which also stars Harry Guardino and Ron Rifkin, was done in the flavor of the Blaxploitation movies that were popular at the time and kicked off a weekly ABC series of the same name. In what was the character's...
13) Peep world
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
At a dinner celebrating their father's seventieth birthday, tensions among four siblings explode, thanks to the success of the youngest son's new novel, a thinly veiled portrait of the family.
14) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
Publisher
Miramax
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The truce: Based on the life of Jewish-Italian author Primo Levi. As a man whose life is changed forever by World War II. His incredible adventure begins after the war ends as he embarks on a thousand-mile journey back home to Italy. Along the way he faces great odds, but rediscovers the simple joy of life that the war threatened to destroy forever, friendship, love, laughter and, most important of all, a sense of hope.
Edges of the Lord: A young...