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1) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Author
Language
English
Description
A letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious,...
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
While living in the red light district of Calcutta, documenting life in the brothels, New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives
5) Pretty baby
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district, circa 1917, is bewitched by a twelve-year-old child prostitute.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rebel without a cause (1955): The adolescent son of a well-to-do family gets into trouble with other kids and the police
East of Eden (1955): A wayward Salinas Valley youth vies for the affection of his hardened father with his favored brother
Cat on a hot tin roof (1958): A drama of the problems of a wealthy but decadent family in the South
A streetcar named Desire (1951): Set in the steamy squalor of New Orleans, the story of a neurotic woman's...
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