Tim Matheson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Tom Langdon, a weary and cash-strapped journalist, is banned from flying when a particularly thorough airport security search causes him to lose his cool. Now, he must take the train if he has any chance of arriving in Los Angeles in time for Christmas with his girlfriend. To finance the trip, he sells a story about a train ride taken during the Christmas season."
2) Black sheep
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Wind Dancer: When a riding accident leaves a young girl unable to walk, her widowed father seeks help from a beautiful therapist who uses animals to help people.
Wildfire: The Arabian Heart: Lindsey is a teenage girl who is talked into driving across country to visit her uncle in the Midwest who has never recovered from a tragedy in his past.
Misty: On an island off the Virginia coast lives a centuries-old band of wild ponies. Among them is the...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Colombia is in chaos, caught in a bitter war between its government and insurgent guerrillas. A team of U.S. Navy SEALS are sent on a secret mission to observe a meeting between the factions and ensure peace is the end result. But when the meeting is attacked and the leaders of both sides are murdered, the SEAL team is framed for the assault. Abandoned by their own government and trapped behind enemy lines, the group must survive long enough to find...
7) Child's Play
Pub. Date
2019
Description
A mother gives her son a toy doll for his birthday, unaware of its more sinister nature.
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Jake Peterson (Tim Matheson) returns to his home town to close the local tractor factory. He hides his intentions and becomes the town hero and when the truth is discovered he returns to the city and his lonely life. There he formulates a plan to return, save the factory, and earn the love of Emma Murphy (Melissa Gilbert).
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Brian Cox (Golden Globe Winner for HBO's Succession) is Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island for San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory's life will be unexpectedly transformed through a newly found love for his baby grandson.
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Season three finds Dr. Zoe Hart fighting to regain her practice from Dr. Brick Breeland, New Yorker Joel struggling to blend in with small-town life, Lemon Breeland and Wade Kinsella becoming unlikely business partners, Mayor Hayes finding happiness with AnnaBeth Nass, and George Tucker suffering yet another broken heart.
15) 1941
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.
16) Fletch
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is a Los Angeles journalist who really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. This time, Fletch is in disguise as a bum, living at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is addressed by Alan Stanwyk, a rich man, who asks him, the bum, a favor. For the sum of $50,000, Fletch should kill poor cancer-ridden Mr. Stanwyk with a gun,...
18) Impulse
Pub. Date
1998
Description
When Jennifer and her boyfriend Stuart return to her idyllic hometown, they discover that all boundaries of civility seem to have eroded. Mystified by the actions of normally kind townspeople who are suddenly driven to extremes of irrational and violent behavior, Jennifer and Stuart attempt to get to the bottom of the increasingly life-threatening chaos before it destroys them.
19) Mary White
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In this heart-warming true story of a loving father-daughter relationship, William Allen White reflects on the last year he spent with his daughter Mary.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Colombia is in chaos, caught in a bitter war between its government and insurgent guerrillas. A team of U.S. Navy SEALS are sent on a secret mission to observe a meeting between the factions and ensure peace is the end result. But when the meeting is attacked and the leaders of both sides are murdered, the SEAL team is framed for the assault. Abandoned by their own government and trapped behind enemy lines, the group must survive long enough to find...
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