Michael Kelly
1) Joyland
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
4) Defendor
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Arthur is just an ordinary guy by day, who turns into Defendor, a self-made superhero, by night. His quest is to track down his archenemy, Captain Industry, the person he believes is responsible for killing his mother. But before he can do this, he must convince a court-appointed psychiatrist that he is sane enough to be on the streets, and befriending a teenaged prostitute doesn't help.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (391 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Season Three of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack races against time and across Europe to stop a rogue faction within the Russian government from restoring the Soviet Empire and starting World War III.
6) Chronicle
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seen through the lens of a troubled teen's video camera, yet filled with eye-popping action and jaw-dropping special effects, Chronicle is as real as it gets. When three ordinary high school friends make an extraordinary discovery, they acquire amazing abilities beyond their understanding. But as their powers develop, so do their darker sides. Fun, harmless pranks soon lead to much riskier activities as the boys' 'gifts,' and their lives, spin dangerously...
7) Loggerheads
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A handsome drifter makes a pilgrimage to the scenic coast of North Carolina; a woman searches for the son she gave up for adoption as a teenager; and a small town minister's wife longs for her estranged adopted son. These three stories intertwine.
8) Everest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding an attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the film documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle...
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (368 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the second season after tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle, CIA Officer Jack Ryan heads down to South America to investigate. As Jack's investigation threatens to uncover a far-reaching conspiracy, the President of Venezuela launches a counter-attack that hits home for Jack, leading him and his fellow operatives on a global mission spanning the United States, UK, Russia, and Venezuela to unravel...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (663 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank prepares for his promotion to Vice President. Doug tries to erase all leads leading him back to him and Frank. Claire fights back against Gillian. Zoe considers working with Frank again.
11) Invincible
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vince Papale is a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher in Philadelphia who, at the age of 30, was out of work, abandoned by his wife, and biding time as a part-time bartender when he decides to answer an open call for tryouts on the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team in 1976. Going with his gut instinct, new coach Dick Vermeil rewards Papale's diligent efforts with a place on the team.
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
See how it all began-- the gripping tale of the early years of gangster Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution, becoming the heroin czar of Harlem in the late 1960s.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (316 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the final season of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Jack is promoted to the new CIA Acting Deputy Director and finds himself on his most dangerous mission yet! He is appointed with the daunting task of unearthing internal corruption. As he investigates, Jack discovers the convergence of a drug cartel with a terrorist organization, ultimately revealing a conspiracy much closer to home and testing our hero's belief in the system he has always fought to protect....
15) Fair game
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the autobiography of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose covert identity was exposed when her husband, retired Ambassador Joe Wilson, wrote a newspaper article challenging the basis for the claim that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
16) Changeling
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Working-class suburb Los Angeles, 1928. Christine says goodbye to her son, Walter, and departs for work. Arriving home, Christine discovers that Walter is nowhere to be found. Christine launches a desperate a search for her son. Then, a boy claiming to be Christine's son appears out of thin air. Knowing the boy is not hers, Christine invites the child to stay in her home. Christine cannot accept the injustice being pushed upon her and continues to...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (352 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an actual US Military program, follows the life of Joe while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade and Donald Westfield, enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11.
18) Dawn of the dead
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious virus turns people into mindless, flesh-eating zombies, a handful of survivors wage a desperate, last-stand battle to stay alive ... and human! The last remaining humans escape to a Milwaukee shopping mall, where they decide that the only way to truly elude the approaching throng of undead is to somehow make their way to an island that is supposedly zombie-free.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
4 videodiscs (683 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the midst of the presidential election, tensions mount in the White House as Frank and Claire continue to navigate their political careers and redefine their relationships, particularly with each other.
20) Treasure planet
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...