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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Betrayal and Honor-- Fearing that Caesar means to end the Roman republic and make himself the emperor, Brutus, Caesar's closest friend, allows himself to be caught up in a plot to kill Caesar. Once Caesar is killed Brutus realizes, too late, that there was far more to this than meets the eye. Let me have men about me that are fat; Sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights; Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in...
24) The silver chair
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.
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Amgash novels volume 1
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English
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Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy’s childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy’s life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for...
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English
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#1 New York Times Bestseller
What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom's profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from the sea. He claims to be "the Lord." And he says he can only save them if they all believe in him.
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, ten people struggle for survival at sea.
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New Video
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (10 hr., 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Cleo and Rikki are about to face their last year of high school without Emma, who has gone overseas. They're confident they know everything there is to know about Mako Island, but when water attacks them on a full moon, they realize a new, potentially dangerous force is developing on the island. Thankfully they find an ally in Bella, a new girl in town who reveals she too is a mermaid. Together, the new trio faces phenomenal challenges as they discover...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An up-and-coming journalist finds his world and faith increasingly challenged when he's granted the interview of a lifetime, with someone who claims to be God.
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Everyman's library volume 58
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English
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This timeless novel is set in the high society of 19th century Russia. The story is largely about the disloyal affair between Anna Karenina and Vronsky. Tolstoy's masterful portrayal of each character's emotions makes this story a classic for all times.
Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy...
31) Selma
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2015
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Widescreen ed.
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1 videodisc (ca. 128 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
"Intelligently written, vividly shot, tightly edited, sharply acted, the film represents a rare example of craftsmanship working to produce a deeply moving piece of history."--Hollywood Reporter.
"Selma" is a necessary film, even an essential one,...
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English
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In “Good Company”, Sweeney explores marriages, family, female friendships, infidelity, and the crazy theatrical world of actors. The novel centers mostly around Flora, a woman married for over 20 years, and who has an adorable daughter, Ruby. Her best friend is Margot, who's she's known as long as her husband Julian.
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 videodisc (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
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Arthur A. Levine
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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pages cm
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English
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As an overworked employee of the Minestry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son, Albus finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear.
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English
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On the eve of becoming a married man, the Counselor makes a risky entrance into the drug trade— and gambles that the consequences won' t catch up to him. Along the gritty terrain of the Texas- Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fiancee. But instead, the Counselor finds...
36) Foster
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English
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An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US
It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought
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English
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An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.
After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak.
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[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Based on the novel from the bestselling book series, this powerful love story is filled with inspiring life lessons about faith, trust and first impressions. In the quaint town of Sugarcreek, Ohio, policewoman Rachel Troyer is fiercely protective of her three Amish aunts. When a penniless stranger named Joe shows up with his five-year-old son, the aunts insist on helping them. But Rachel has immediate suspicions and devotes herself to investigating...
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English
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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
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