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1) Grown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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HL 560L
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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields sports Enchanted Jones at an audition, Chanty's dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until she wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare, because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
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"Finalist for the Theatre Library Association Award for Outstanding Book in Recorded or Broadcast Performance" Linda Williams is Professor of Film Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Film Studies Program. She is the author of Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the Frenzy of the Visible and Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film. Her edited volumes include Viewing Positions: Ways of...
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"Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders--and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears--mortality, failure, loneliness--can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
NC 1110L
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English
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The King of France gives Helena the hand of any man she wants in marriage, but the one she chooses, Bertram, flees to Tuscany, and she must use her wits to get him back. Includes an introduction, notes, and discussion of the theatrical world of Shakespeare.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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NC 1110L
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"The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includes: - Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play&;s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare&;s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images...
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Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966) was a film critic and independent sociologist and theorist. He is the author of The Mass Ornament and Theory of Film (Princeton). Leonardo Quaresima is professor of film history and criticism and director of cinema studies at the University of Udine.
An essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an...
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In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated...
9) Cymbeline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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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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Bosom buddies Valentine and Proteus bid a tearful farewell on a street in Verona. Valentine is off to improve himself, venturing out to see the world, while Proteus stays home in Verona, tied by his love for Julia. After Valentine departs, his servant, Speed, enters. Proteus inquires whether or not Speed delivered a letter to Julia, to which Speed replies affirmatively. Julia, meanwhile, asks her maid, Lucetta, with which man she should fall in love,...
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Waiting For A Friend is a stage play about a fifty-something-year old man who is confronted by the unexpected visit of his best friend, who died tragically when they were kids in high school.
The man must come to terms with his lost youth and innocence, and the unstoppable passage of time, while a painful but heartfelt conversation with his teenage friend puts into perspective a life cut short versus what it means to have lived a full life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
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1340L
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English
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The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the greatest playwright in the English language. This exclusive collection of the Bard's best works has been designed specifically for readers new to Shakespeare's rich literary legacy. Each play is presented complete and unabridged. Every book is well illustrated, and starts with a commentary and character summary, Scene synopses and character summaries...
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
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The COMPLETE original SCRIPT adapted from the revenge fiction novel: SAFE IN KILLER HANDS - Money, Madness, Murder, includes all 4 episodes. "With the logic of betrayed, the Asquith women instigate revenge - murder dressed in its Sunday best" - set within the 4 seasons of 1947. A widow, her daughters and their farm-man, enmeshed in murderous plans against the inheritor; a keep-sake son. Their instigated farming accidents back-fire with precursory...
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"Joshua Jay, one of the world's most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery. In 52 short, compulsively readable essays, Jay describes how he does it, whether it's through the making of illusions, the psychology behind them, or the way technology influences the world of magic. He considers the...
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Une fiche de référence sur Breaking the Waves, un chef-d'oeuvre de Lars von Trier.
Le réalisateur danois Lars von Trier, né en 1956, s'était fait remarquer pour son goût « maniériste » des exercices de style formels, qui s'expriment dans des films très apprêtés, remplis de références cinéphiliques et dénués de sentimentalisme. Aussi est-ce une surprise lorsqu'on le découvre capable d'écrire et de diriger un drame aussi prenant...
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Une fiche de référence sur The Servant, un chef-d'oeuvre de Joseph Losey.
Tony, architecte aux allures de playboy, revient à Londres après un long séjour en Afrique. Quelque peu désœuvré, il loue une maison et cherche un domestique pour y mettre de l'ordre et lui faire la cuisine. Hugo Barrett remplit parfaitement ces fonctions — du moins les premiers temps. Car peu à peu, Barrett prend des initiatives.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes...
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Une fiche de référence sur Eraserhead, un chef-d'oeuvre de David Lynch.
Eraserhead (« Tête à effacer ») est le premier long-métrage de David Lynch (1946- ) et reste dans sa filmographie une œuvre à part, tant par ses conditions de production (plus de cinq ans de travail, avec des moyens très réduits) que par son aspect parfois proche de l'abstraction.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Eraserhead de...
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Une fiche de référence sur Épouses et concubines, un chef-d'oeuvre de Zhang Yimou.
Ce film, et le précédent de Zhang, Ju Dou, sont sortis immédiatement après le massacre de la place Tiananmen (1989). Il est symptomatique d'une société o le degré de censure était extraordinairement élevé que l'on ait voulu voir, dans ces histoires de femmes mariées contre leur gré et de tyran domestique, une allégorie de la situation du pays.
Un ouvrage...
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Une fiche de référence sur Aprile, un chef-d'oeuvre de Nanni Moretti.
Projeté au festival de Cannes en mai 1998, le neuvième film de Nanni Moretti, Aprile, poursuit, quatre ans après Journal intime, une veine d'autobiographie directe o le cinéaste apparaît à l'écran sous son vrai nom et sous une personnalité à peine travestie.
Un ouvrage conçu par des spécialistes du cinéma pour tout savoir sur Aprile de Nanni Moretti.
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