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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Babylon A.D
Language
English
Description
In the future, a mercenary named Toorop accepts a contract from Gorsky, a Russian mobster, who instructs him to bring a young woman only known as Aurora to New York. Gorsky gives Toorop a variety of weapons as well as a UN passport that has to be injected under the skin of the neck. Toorop, along with the girl and her guardian Sister Rebeka, leave the Noelite Convent where they lived. The three flee from an unknown group of mercenaries. The stress...
5) Unsane
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
7) Mesmerized
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.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jane is a bright young woman who longs for, but always feared change. Following the sudden murder of her fianč, she finds herself caught in a web of manipulation by a bar owner and his estranged wife. The detective leading the case is Jane's old friend, but Jane questions if he can bring justice to the case. When the facts surrounding the murder fail to match the explanations put forth, Jane is forced to rely on herself to piece the puzzle together....
11) Morvern callar
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Morvern Callar is greeted with a startling surprise, her boyfriend has committed suicide. He has left her a cryptic message on his computer and a manuscript for a novel. She changes the author's name to her own and begins a re-birth of self discovery.
12) Chasing Liberty
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Anna Foster is the 18-year-old daughter of President of the United States James Foster. Anna has led a privileged life, but she has grown to resist the constant presence of Secret Service agents getting in the way of her independence. While on a family trip to Europe, Anna manages to get away from security for a brief time. She inevitably falls for Ben Calder, with whom she enjoys a fresh and clean European vacation. Not wanting to ruin her fun, she...
13) Hustlers
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 clientele hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players. It's a wild, modern-day Robin Hood tale that critics are...
15) The ringmaster
Pub. Date
2021, p2019.
Language
Danish
Description
Two young women working the night shift at a secluded gas station unwittingly become the stars of a terrifying show streamed live on the dark web. Held captive by a sadistic ringmaster and his cohorts, their survival instincts are stretched to the limit as they are forced to participate in a torture game with an unseen audience deciding their fate.
16) Samantha Rose
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Sam is lost, working a dead-end job, and afraid to pursue a real life of her own. Returning to her hometown in northern Oregon she reunites with a childhood friend and joins him and a group of misfits as they work the fall harvest on the surrounding vineyards. This ragtag family of runaways is fearless and free, leading Sam on a journey of discovery and healing. There are motorcycle riders and homemade wine, midnight swims and bonfires, horses, camping,...
17) Open road
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
This coming-of-age story is about love in all its many forms. Angie is a free spirit living on her own terms and occasionally waitressing to make money. But when she makes connections with a drifter, a handsome cop, and his sister, she finds herself torn between her life of absolute freedom and being tied to people who care about her.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Charlotte is struggling to balance her songwriting career and planning her upcoming wedding. After trying on countless wedding dresses, she knows the only one that's right for her is her mother?s dress, which is at her grandmother's house in Harmony, Tennessee. With her two best friends in tow, Charlotte journeys from Los Angeles back to her hometown to ask her grandmother for the dress.
19) One more time
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her overachieving sister, her own ruinous love life, and, above all, a...
20) Leona
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Tells the story of a young Jewish woman from Mexico City who finds herself torn between her family and her forbidden love. Ripe with all the drama and interpersonal conflicts of a Jane Austen novel, Ariela navigates the labyrinth of familial pressure, religious precedent, and her own burgeoning independence as she struggles with her heart to find the right path.
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