The Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith: At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name.
At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily
spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple: at the
same time that Thursday's mother finds she's fallen out of love with her
husband, she realizes that James's father is interested in her. As the children
grow into adulthood, their connection becomes more complicated as well: James
drifts away from Thursday, but she keeps him in her sights: she attends the
same college in Scotland and then follows him to London, Sydney, Singapore,
rebuilding her life in every city, hoping each time that James will see what he
is missing. As Thursday and James, and their parents, navigate their
irresistible but baffling mazes of emotion, we are given a beautifully realized
tale about how love, even if unrequited, can shape a life. Check Availability
All Is Lost (DVD): An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival
against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a
sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean
currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing
vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies
dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality
in the face. Check availability
Riddick (DVD): A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in
the known galaxy, Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that
appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival
against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only
way off is for him to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who
rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. With time running out
and a deadly storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won't
leave the planet without Riddick's head as their trophy.
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Counselor (DVD): A lawyer makes a risky entrance into the drug trade, and
gambles that the consequences won't catch up with him. Check Availability
Ender’s Game(DVD): A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the
legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost.
In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the
best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained
by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's
trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will
determine the future of Earth and save the human race.
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