Eric Roth
Author
Publisher
BookBaby
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Compelling American Conversations: Questions and Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners helps American immigrants and international students develop their fluency skills and academic vocabulary through conversation exercises.
Each chapter includes two sets of conversation questions, vocabulary review, short writing exercises, paraphrasing exercises with proverbs, a discussion activity around pithy quotations, and
...Author
Publisher
Chimayo Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Compelling American Conversations: Questions and Quotations for Intermediate American English Language Learners helps American immigrants and international students develop their fluency skills and academic vocabulary through conversation exercises. Each chapter includes two sets of conversation questions, vocabulary review, short writing exercises, paraphrasing exercises with proverbs, a discussion activity around pithy quotations, and an online...
5) Forrest Gump
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, writes bumper stickers...
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers and falls in love with struggling artist Ally. She has given up on her dream to become a successful singer, until she meets Jack, who immediately sees her natural talent. This is the raw and passionate tale of Jack and Ally, two artistic souls coming together, on stage and in life. Theirs is a complex journey through the beauty and the heartbreak of a relationship struggling to survive." --
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
8) Munich
Series
Publisher
Universal
Language
English
Description
During the 1972 Olympics PLO terrorists kidnapped and murdered eleven Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and conflicts between Avner and his team's handler, Ephraim, over information...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
10) Creating compelling conversations: reproducible search and share activities for English teachers
Author
Publisher
Chimayo Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
11) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive." --
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Language
English
Description
Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
13) Lucky you
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Pro gambler Huck Cheever meets irresistible Billie Offer. He learns to treat love the way he treats cards: trusting his heart instead of his head. Meanwhile, he scrambles to raise the $10K entry fee for the glittery, high-roller World Series of Poker, even though, or maybe because, the tournament may pit him against his estranged father.
Author
Publisher
Chimayo Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"This collection of 42 short English lessons focuses on specific American idioms and common phrases. The thematic chapters are organized into seven categories: Let's Get Started, Fun with Food, Body Language, Animal Wisdom, Colorful Language, How's the Weather, and Where Are You. Each concise self-contained chapter explores a single American idiom with clear definitions, sample sentences, short readings, comprehension checks, vocabulary lists, writing...
16) Dune
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment, SDS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When House Atreides is assigned rule over the planet Arrakis, the longtime controllers of the spice -- House Harkonnen -- appear to peacefully hand over the territory while plotting to assassinate Duke Leto and his entire family. After escaping capture, the Duke's consort and her son, Paul, find themselves facing the untold dangers of the desert planet: harsh environment, enormous spice-producing sandworms, and Fremen, the native inhabitants." --...
18) Ali
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight champion title thus stripped from him for political reasons, the champ...
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Aloha: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs, the US Space program in Honolulu, Hawaii, and reconnects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
The midnight meat train: Struggling photographer Leon Kauffman's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late-night commuters, ultimately butchering...
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The nickel ride: "Cooper ... known as the "key man" because of his large ring of keys, manages several warehouses containin the Mob's stolen goods. When the Mob has stolen so much that they are running out of space, they send Cooper to negotiate for a new warehouse. His boss gets nervous and, believing the big-hearted "key man" to be more of a risk than an asset, orders him to be watched"--Container.
99 and 44/100% dead!: "In a future where the laws...