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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[Our Town] leaves us with a sense of blessing, and the unspoken but palpable command to achieve gratitude in what remains of our days on earth." — The New Yorker
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of life in the mythical village of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire—an allegorical representation of all life—is an American classic. It is the simple story of a love affair that asks timeless
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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma"--
"The first stand-alone edition of Vogel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama"--
3) Emma
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
"The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage--now in a stunning 200th-anniversary Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Beautiful, clever, rich--and single--Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to...
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the book trade by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
A work about how we memorialize the dead-and how that remembering changes us-it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world
5) Maneater
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An industrious young woman who is working her way into the Beverly Hills movie scene is hoping to snag the hottest producer in town. Little does she know that she is about to bite off more than she can chew
7) Mesmerized
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan's arranged marriage to a deranged, possessive businessman becomes so unbearable that she attempts to free herself of the relationship and, when her husband dies, is charged with his murder. Based on a true story
8) Middlemarch
Publisher
Distributed in the US and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of George Eliot's novel describing life in a provincial town on the eve of the Industrial Revolution.
Publisher
Xenon Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
After being arrested for a crime she didn't commit and being thrown out of her house, Venus joins a gang of drug dealers who offer her shelter and protection. Only after a deadly holdup, does she understand the terrible reality of the life she's chosen.
10) The simple life
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
How crazy can it get when two rich, sexy, big-city blondes, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, find themselves knee-deep in rural reality, trying to survive without credit cards, nightclubs, and Saks Fifth Avenue
Series
Publisher
American Home Treasures
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Alice's girlhood fantasies of finding her father are twisted into a bundle of letters, returned from the postal service's Dead Letter Office. Hoping to learn something, she takes a job there, supervised by a gloomy man hiding from his past.
12) Maneater
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
An industrious young woman who is working her way into the Beverly Hills movie scene is hoping to snag the hottest producer in town. Little does she know that she is about to bite off more than she can chew.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte is struggling to balance her songwriting career and planning her upcoming wedding. After trying on countless wedding dresses, she knows the only one that's right for her is her mother's dress, which is at her grandmother's house in Harmony, Tennessee. With her two best friends in tow, Charlotte journeys from Los Angeles back to her hometown to ask her grandmother for the dress.
15) Mothering Sunday
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A maid living in post-World War I England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
16) The miniaturist
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A woman moves to live with her new husband in seventeenth century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along.
19) I kill giants
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Imaginative fifth grader Barbara Thorson becomes so immersed in her fantasy world that she believes she kills giants with her magical warhammer Coveleski.
20) Poor things
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Under Baxter's protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand...
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