Joanne Whalley
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
A young woman explores her father's library and finds an ancient book and a collection of yellowing letters addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor." The woman's discovery leads her to explore the secrets of her father's past and of her mother's mysterious fate. She finds out that her father's quest was to learn the truth about the medieval ruler Vlad the Impaler and his connection to the legend of Dracula. She decides to continue the quest...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
He's guilty of murder. But something goes wrong in the jury room. Eleven jurors vote guilty. One woman, her life and family threatened by the mob, votes to let the killer walk. To set things right, that woman will have to fight back with a vengeance.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Paul, who goes from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Christ's most influential apostle, is spending his last days in a dark and bleak prison cell awaiting execution by Emperor Nero. Luke, his friend and physician, risks his life when he ventures into Rome to visit him. Paul is under the watchful eye of Mauritius, the prison's prefect, who seeks to understand how this broken old man can pose such a threat. But before Paul's death sentence...
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After exacting vicious punishment on all those who opposed them, the Borgias are at the apex of their power and influence. With the world around them embroiled in war and turmoil, the original crime family will continue to exploit allies, silence critics, and solidify legacies. But this time, the seemingly unbreakable bonds of blood will be tested like never before, as the house notoriously united against the world becomes divided against itself.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The saga of history's most infamous crime family. Conspiring with his ruthless sons and poisonously seductive daughter, the charismatic Rodrigo Borgia will let nothing and no one stand in the way of his relentless quest for wealth and power. Mercilessly cruel and defiantly decadent, intimidation and murder are his weapons of choice in his scandalous ascension to the papacy in Renaissance-era Italy.
7) Scarlett
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The parallel paths of Scarlett and Rhett Butler take them from the social swirl of post-war Savannah to London's high society in this sequel to Gone with the wind.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Spies like us: Two would-be spies are dupes in an evil mastermind's plan to take over the world. Vegas vacation: Clark Griswold and his family take a vacation to Las Vegas where nothing seems to go right. Man with two brains: A talented neurosurgeon who made millions perfecting an easy method of brain transplant travels to Vienna with his golddigging new wife where he meets a mad scientist and falls in love with a brain in a jar. Man who knew too...
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The white princess is a tale of power, family, love and betrayal, charting one of the most tumultuous times in British history uniquely from the point of view of the women. The tempestuous marriage between Elizabeth of York and King Henry VII officially marks of the conclusion of the War of the Roses, but the real battle for the throne is far from over.
11) Jamaica Inn
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Set in Cornwall in 1820, du Maurier's classic gothic tale of romance, intrigue, and murder on the moors comes to vivid life in this enchanting production.