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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Our Town was first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the town of Grover's Corners, an allegorical representation of all life, has become a classic. It is Thornton Wilder's most renowned and most frequently performed play. It is now reissued in this handsome hardcover edition, featuring a new Foreword by Donald Margulies, who writes, "You are holding in your hands a great American play. Possibly...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family and generally not happy about life, Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast and revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter's wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that she's never too old to learn...
3) Jindabyne
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A group of men discover the body of an Aborigine girl in an Australian fishing hole. Instead of reporting the murder right away, they wait until they've filled their coolers with fish. Their inaction sets off a scandal that threatens to tear them apart.
Publisher
Abc Studios
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
Over twenty years ago, Hamptons' wealthiest elite destroyed a young girl's life when they framed and murdered her father. Fueled by this betrayal, Emily Thorne came back and began to exact revenge on those who wronged her. This season, the stakes are higher than ever and may end up costing her everything, including her life.
Publisher
Venevision International
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
"Juan is the survivor of a shipwreck together with his niece and mentally challenged brother. He moves to an isolated town where he meets Sara, a woman escaping her own painful past. A secret and impossible love and the mysterious death of his other brother will lead Juan to realize that it takes more than bravery in life to survive." --Container.
"Junto a su sobrina y un hermano con problemas mentales, los únicos sobrevivientes de un naufragio,...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hassan is a culinary ingenue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, his family settles in a quaint village in the south of France. They plan to open an Indian restaurant, that is, until Madame Mallory, the owner of a classical French restaurant, gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant so near her own escalate to all out war; until Hassan's cooking talent and love for Mme. Mallory's...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman named Alan Clay pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great.
A failed American businessman looks to regain his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an American-born Chinese woman attends a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend, she discovers that his family is very wealthy and other women in his social class are trying to date him.
A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend₂s wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick₂s family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate...
11) The lucky one
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know. Learning her name is Beth and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be...
12) Brave
Series
Publisher
[Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Princess Merida, an archer and self-reliant young woman, makes a decision which defies custom and brings chaos to her kingdom. To restore her kingdom, she must rely on her bravery and archery skills.
13) Vera Drake
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Vera Drake tells of a woman in 1950s England who is devoted to caring for her family, but secretly aids women who want to terminate unwanted pregnancies. When the authorities find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When school hunk Trip Fontain convinces the beautiful but sheltered Lisbon sisters to go to the prom, the romantic fantasies of a group of neighborhood boys threaten to come true--until all are engulfed in a stunning chain of events that will change their lives forever.
17) The wave
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Norwegian
Formats
Description
The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many...
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