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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
...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.
Author
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"--
4) Hustlers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
7) 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
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
10) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
11) 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
12) Anne of Avonlea
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher in a wealthy town and dreams of meeting her ideal man.
13) 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
Series
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependant on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
15) 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.
16) All night bodega
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.
17) Emma
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
18) 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.
20) 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.
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