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New Directions paperbook volume 501
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most remarkable plays of our time. It created an immortal woman in the character of Blanche DuBois, the haggard and fragile southern beauthy who pathetic last grasp at happiness is cruelly destoryed. It shot Marlon Brando to fame in the role of Stanley Kowalski, a sweat-shirted barbarian, the crudely sensual brother-in-law who precipitated Blanche's tragedy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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This edition includes freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play, with full explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and a key to famous lines and passages that make the Bard come to life for all readers.
A young prince, called home for the funeral of his father, begins to suspect that his father's sudden death was not an accident.
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Onto this scene arrive the twins Viola and Sebastian; caught in a shipwreck, each thinks the other has drowned. Viola disguises herself as a male page and...
6) Finding you
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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Talented aspiring violinist Finley meets Beckett, a famous young movie star, on the way to her college semester abroad program in a small village in Ireland. An unexpected romance develops as the heartthrob Beckett leads the uptight Finley on an adventurous revival, and she inspires him to take charge of his future until the pressures of his stardom get in the way.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Presents the Shakespeare tragedy in which Othello, a Moorish general, is led by a jealous and evil ensign to believe his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful. Includes explanatory notes, scene summaries,and other reference tools, as well as illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's holdings.
8) Ma
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Sue Ann, a loner in her quiet Ohio town, is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends. Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting younger friends. She offers the kids the chance to avoid drinking and driving by hanging out in the basement of her home as long as they abide by the house rules. Her hospitality starts to curdle into obsession, and what began as a teenage dream turns into a terrorizing nightmare....
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Edmond Rostand's 1897 romance, Cyrano de Bergerac, is a classic portrayal of the battle between physical attractiveness and inner beauty and the impact they have on one's ability to love and be loved. The legendary swordsman and poet, whose nose is as big as his passion, believes himself too ugly to woo and win his beloved Roxane. Fellow cadet, Christian, believes himself to be too unschooled. Drawn together by their insecurities, Christian and Cyrano...
11) The public
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When a brutal blast of cold hits Cincinnati, the public library transforms from a safe haven for the homeless into a potential war zone. Those who have no place of retreat to evade the cold stage a sit-in in the library where they are tended by members of the library's staff. Soon the police arrive and a stand-off threatens to bring tragedy to the homeless individuals and those who care about their well-being. An eye-opening exploration of the basic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. "A play that changed American theater forever." The story tells of a Black family's experiences in south Chicago, as they attempt to improve their financial circumstances...
13) Judy
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline.
14) A monster calls
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Twelve-year-old Conor, dealing with his mother's illness, a less-than-sympathetic grandmother, and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth.
15) Paint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Carl Nargle, Vermont's #1 public television painter is convinced he has it all: a signature perm, custom van, and fans hanging on his every stroke...until a younger, better artist steals everything (and everyone) Carl loves.
16) The shack
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
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English
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Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Presents the text of Shakespeare's drama about Romeo and Juliet, two young people whose love is doomed by their warring families, and includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, a key to famous lines and phrases, a modern perspective on the play, and other reference tools.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Includes: freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play; full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play; scene-by-scene plot summaries; a key to famous lines and phrases; an introduction to reading Shakespeare's language; an essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play; and illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
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A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the play's razor-sharp dialogue and the stripping away of social pretense, Newsweek rightly foresaw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as 'a brilliantly original work of art -- an excoriating theatrical experience, surging...
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