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1) The tempest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 1070L
Language
English
Description
A storm strikes a ship carrying Alonso, Ferdinand, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Stephano, and Trinculo, who are on their way to Italy after coming from the wedding of Alonso's daughter, Claribel, to the prince of Tunis in Africa. The royal party and the other mariners, with the exception of the unflappable Boatswain, begin to fear for their lives. Lightning cracks, and the mariners cry that the ship has been hit. Everyone prepares to sink.
4) STYX
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
ER doctor Rike (Susanne Wolff) embarks on a one-woman solo sailing trip to Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean. When Rike comes across a sinking ship of refugees, she is quickly torn out of her contented and idealized world and must make a momentous decision. Aptly named after the mythological river that separates the living from the dead, STYX is an astute modern day parable of Western indifference in the face of marginalized suffering. Carrying...
5) The tempest
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
6) Casablanca
Language
English
Description
In World War II Morocco, seething with European refugees desperate for passage to neutral Lisbon, only a world-weary and bitter nightclub owner can help his former lover and her Resistance-hero husband escape from the Nazis.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After the second war against the Cylons, Commander Adama and President Roslin lead their group of refugees in search of Earth, the fabled thirteenth colony, while the Cylons continue to harrass the humans and internal political and personal conflict threatens to tear the fleet apart.
9) Silent night
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A German mother and her son seek refuge in a cabin during WWII. When her house is invaded by three American soldiers and three German soldiers, she convinces them to keep the peace on Christmas and share dinner.
10) Casablanca
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one - especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more - personal happiness or countless lives...
11) Redemption trail
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two powerful, but deeply troubled women who are refugees from political and personal trauma flee a past that haunts them. The very difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves as heroes capable of a thrilling shoot-out in the name of outlaw justice.
13) Silent night
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A German mother and her son seek refuge in a cabin during WWII. When her house is invaded by three American soldiers and three German soldiers, she convinces them to keep the peace on Christmas and share dinner.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Shot on location with an all-children cast, this is fun-filled family entertainment with a message to challenge and inspire. After a daring escape from Ravenshead Prison, Sam finds herself in worse trouble. Outrunning the relentless wardens seems impossible. She wonders how much longer her strength can hold out. But help is on the way--kind of. enry, janitor for the City of Refuge Guide Service, is unexpectedly thrust into the line of duty when all...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Madame Blueberry : a lesson in thankfulness: As Madame Blueberry fills her house with more and more stuff, she realizes that none of it can bring her the happiness she finds in God's love.
Duke and the great pie war : a lesson in loving your family: After Princess Sweet Petunia is forced to flee her country and live in a tree stump in a foreign land, the Duke (Larry the Cucumber) learns of her plight and risks his life to help her.
Esther: the girl...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Look back at the heyday of live television with this pair of films produced by Westinghouse Studio One. In WILLOW CABIN, a married American surgeon (Charlton Heston) and a flighty British actress fall in love. But can their love survive the horrors of World War II? Then in WINTERTIME, a sea captain returns home to postwar Germany to find it in ruins, and his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee (Anne Bancroft) stows away...
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