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1) King Lear
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Series
Language
English
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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Series
Language
English
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A farce, one of the best ever written, cleverly constructed and delightfully amusing. There is only the slightest attempt at the sketching of character, while most of the personages are at best but caricatures; the Wilde's skill is brought to bear chiefly upon the situations and the lines. It so happens that this farce contains more clever lines, puns, epigrams, and deft repartees than any other of modern times, but these are after all accessory.
...7) The enforcer
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1950
Language
English
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A hard-hitting D.A. is facing the hottest case of the year. Armed with a killer's confession, a score of missing persons and a mob undertaker working full-time, he knows he's onto something. Relentless and determinded he tracks down a notorious murder for profit ring, headed by a killer named Mendoza.
8) Stone cold
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Stone is a quiet chief of police in a cold, gray, seaside town. When a serial killer strikes, this tough cop is in the thick of it. Add his girlfriend, an ex-wife and a sexy defense attorney, and things really heat up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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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...
11) American royals
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Series
American royals volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In an alternate America, princesses Beatrice and Samantha Washington and the two girls wooing their brother, Prince Jefferson, become embroiled in high drama in the most glorious court in the world.
12) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning tragedy of a salesman’s deferred American dream
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
Ever since it was first performed in 1949, Death of a Salesman has been recognized as a milestone of the American theater. In the person of Willy Loman, the aging, failing salesman who makes his living riding on a smile and a shoeshine, Arthur Miller redefined the tragic hero as a man whose dreams are at once insupportably vast and dangerously...
15) End game
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A secret service agent and a reporter work to unravel a menacing conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
16) Red scorpion
Publisher
Key DVD
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Nikolai is a member of the Soviet Special Forces assigned to infiltrate a rebel uprising and assassinate the leader, who is causing problems for the Cuban forces occupying the territory. When Nikolai fails the mission, he pays the price -- torture from the Cuban leaders! He manages to escape to the desert and find the rebel army once more, but this time he is on their side! It's all-out warfare as he leads a daring attack against his former...
18) Australia
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
19) Macbeth
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Language
English
Description
Contains the unabridged text of Macbeth as published in Volume VII of the second edition of the Works of William Shakespeare.
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English
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After a few years in London, housewife Eliza, her successful husband, and their teenage daughter return home to Washington, D.C. However, Eliza's homecoming sparks up memories of past torments, when she was abducted by a serial killer who is now sitting on death row.
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