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1) Elmer Gantry
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Deals with a brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church.
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel (Kim Rossi Stuart) is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Driven by passion, principle or insanity, Julien ultimately commits a crime that brings about his downfall. The red and the black also stars Carole Bouquet (Cesar Award, Best Actress - Too Beautiful For You) in an epic, satirical picture of the...
3) Tartuffe
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The most gifted visual storyteller of the German silent era, F.W. Murnau crafted works of great subtlety and emotional complexity through his absolute command of the cinematic medium. Known for such dazzling films as Nosferatu (1922), The last laugh (1924), Faust (1926), and Sunrise (1927), Murnau was also drawn to more intimate dramas exploring the dark corners of the human mind. In Tartuffe, he revisits Moliére's fable of religious hypocrisy, in...
6) Unforgiven
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
By all appearances Lawanda's father was a conscientious Christian and dedicated family man, but this carefully cultivated image was far from the truth. Lawanda knew all too well what their father was really like. Living in the dark and secret shadow of her father's abuse and hypocrisy, Lawanda suffered silently, nursing a terrible load of anger and rebellion. Though not for children or young teens, this true story offers hope to older teens and adults...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Saints are not born, they are made. And many of vary rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.
9) The trap
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having become embroiled in one troublesome situation after another while living on his uncle's plantation in South Carolina in 1861, eleven-year-old Austin eventually accuses his older relative of hypocrisy.
11) Above all things
Author
Series
The superstars trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Cheating is rampant within the walls of an award-winning high school...and in the lives of two faculty and one student striving to unveil the truth behind the school's success. Teachers Robin Hillis and Brad McCauley and teenager Erin Delaney return to Brookstone High School from their Christmas break under a shadow. Troubled by the evidence of student dishonesty they have come across, they are only partly determined to act on their suspicions. What...
Author
Series
The superstars trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Hidden mysteries are threatening to explode at an award-winning high school...and in the turbulent lives of two teachers and a student caught up in the widening scandal. After their Spring Break from Brookstone High School, teachers Robin Hillis and Brad McCauley and their student Erin Delaney keep toiling in the shadows to learn the true scope of the cheating epidemic they have uncovered and to see justice done among their colleagues and classmates....
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