Nathaniel Parker
1) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 1
Language
English
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
2) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a way to build a super-computer using stolen fairy technology, young criminal mastermind Artemis sets out to blackmail a Chicago businessman but runs into a trap that leaves Butler mortally injured.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his second adventure, the youngest, brightest, and most dangerous criminal mastermind is at boarding school when he receives an urgent e-mail from Russia. It's from a man Artemis never thought he'd see again: his father, who has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia and pleads for Artemis's help.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has no memory of the fairy people and his dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi escapes from jail and is planning revenge. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl is back and so is his brilliant and dangerous enemy, Opal Koboi. At the start of the story, Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn't...
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elizabeth George's crime-cracking duo from opposite sides of the tracks are back in four intriguing new mysteries. The fifth series begins with Lynley suspended from duty for alleged police brutality, and Havers with a new boss. Can they still function as a team, now that they're apart?" --Container.
Publisher
WGBH
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen letterboxed ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new series picks up where the last story ended - with Havers shot in the line of duty, and Lynley estranged from his wife Helen. How will these traumas affect their ability to do their jobs?
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suave, sophisticated Detective Inspector Lynley and his prickly, plebian sidekick Detective Sergeant Havers are back with two new gripping mysteries in this sixth and final series. But with Lynley struggling to cope with his wife's death -- and Havers struggling with her partner's heavy drinking -- will they be able to focus on solving crime?
13) Injustice
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (223 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When successful London barrister William Travers suffers a nervous breakdown, he moves his family and practice to rural Suffolk. Called upon to defend an old friend, he is caught up in a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the courtroom. James Purefoy stars in a taut, engrossing thriller from the creator of Foyle's War.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Full screen, letterboxed, widescreen.
Physical Desc
12 videodiscs (2064 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mysteries involving Detective Inspector Lynley, eighth Earl of Asherton, and his partner, Sergeant Barbara Havers, from the working class.
15) Land girls
Series
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 223 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in England during the Second World War, a five-part drama that captures the sacrifices and experiences of four young women in the Women's Land Army. Sharing hardships and working alongside captured POWs, Annie, Bea, Joyce and Nancy toil in the fields to grow food for the war effort.
Publisher
AMC Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mystery writer Felix Lane suffers a tragic loss; his nine-year-old son is killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Desperate for vengeance, Lane bypasses the authorities, adopts a new identity, and begins looking for clues that will lead him to the culprit. The suspense reaches hair-raising levels as Felix's vendetta leads him to infiltrate an affluent family rife with its own intrigues. But who among this highly suspect bunch is the killer? And will...
18) Stardust
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
[Full screen ed.].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hoping to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Tristan promises to recover a star that fell somewhere between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. Meanwhile, a dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown, and a witch is seeking the same star as Tristan but for an entirely different purpose.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The village of Three Pines, a refuge from the modern world in the beautiful Eastern Townships, basks in the tranquil glory of its autumn colours. But the blazing woods conceal the body of a much-loved teacher - shot through the heart with an arrow. A tragic hunting accident or murder? Charismatic Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and his team of officers probe to discover deep layers of deceit, resentment, and murderous rage in the pretty village.
20) Lovely War
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Greek goddess Aphrodite recounts two tales of tragic love during WWI to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, in a luxe Manhattan hotel room at the height of World War II. She seeks to answer the age-old question: "Why are Love and War eternally drawn to one another?" but her quest for a conclusion that will satisfy her jealous husband uncovers a multi-threaded tale of prejudice, trauma, and music revealing that War is no match for the...