Various Artists
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Language
English
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Description
The award-winning global media leader and philanthropist offers a guide for identifying one's purpose and creating a framework for a life that is both successful and meaningful, sharing inspirational quotes by some of today's most influential cultural figures.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
This collection contains ten stories reflecting the endless variety of life on the planet Majipoor. The stories include "Thesme and the Ghayrog", "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage", "The Desert of Stolen Dreams" and "Voriax and Valentine".
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Series
Majipoor series volume 3
Language
English
Description
Gentle, pacifist, saintly Lord Valentine copes with the tasks of government on the planet Majipoor amidst blight and rebellion.
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Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 3
Pub. Date
1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Book 3 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.
From the 18th century into the early years of the 19th, Americans- traveling to find new homes and new lands- crossed the Appalachian Mountains and moved across the Northwest Territory, spreading west to the banks of the great river. But in this alternate frontier America, the men and women use lore and folk-magic to settle the continent. When Alvin arrives in Hatrack River to take up his...
Author
Series
Sun Coast chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Louis Dubose, an international art dealer, has been murdered. The police are certain they have caught the murderer. Recently fired by Dubose, Ben Robinson has a motive backed by a convincing trail of evidence. Sharon Robinson isn't convinced. She is about to gamble her own well-being on his innocence, when her personal indictment against him may be almost as bitter as murder. The question is, does Sharon Robinson know Ben as well as she thinks she...
Author
Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 1
Language
English
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"Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world were magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose, who nonetheless takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. The wizards are at a desperate crossroad, even if they won't admit it. They're searching through the small border towns near Mexico trying to locate a low-level magic practitioner,...
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Publisher
Harper/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Triburbia draws the lives of Tribeca's various residents, uncovering the deep betrayals they've committed against themselves and each other. Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers meet each morning at a local coffee shop after walking their children to their exclusive school. Over the course of a single year, we learn about their dreams deferred, their secrets and mishaps, their passions and hopes, as they confront terrible truths about...
10) The Oresteia
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985, c1977
Language
English
Description
The Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus. The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father's murder. The only extant example of an ancient Greek theater trilogy, the Oresteia won first prize at the Dionysia festival in 458 BC. Principal themes of the trilogy include the contrast between revenge and justice, as well as the transition from personal vendetta to organized litigation.
12) Lost in Yonkers
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Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
An insightful drama about one woman's drive and its emotional toll on her and her family. Grandma Kurnitz has endured many crises, ranging from a harsh childhood in Germany to being a young widow with six children in a foreign country. From her life she learned to be strong, hard, and cold, and this is the lesson she tries to instill in her four remaining children. While her two teenage grandsons are in her care, the three learn the importance of...
13) Heartfire
Author
Series
Tales of Alvin Maker volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c1999, c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While Alvin Maker travels in New England, his new wife Peggy Guester attempts to use her powers to prevent bloodshed by traveling to the court of King Arthur Stuart in the British Crown Colonies, where she must confront Alvin's brother Calvin.
14) The rivals
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
A modern, annotated edition of the play with a critical introduction, biographical information on the author, discussions of dates and sources, textual details, and a bibliography.
15) Twelve angry men
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1955.
Language
English
Description
A play in which a juror in a murder trial holds out on a guilty verdict and tries to get the other jurors to look at the situation without being swayed by their personal prejudices or biases.
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Series
Alcatraz Smedry adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
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English
Description
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual...
18) The crucible
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tale about the Puritan witch trials in the late 1600's Salem (Massachusetts), and how this historical play's lessons apply to contemporary society.
19) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace 7 Company
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
This delightful Broadway hit chronicles three Jewish sisters from Brooklyn as they gather in London to celebrate a birthday. Wasserstein's three sisters include a brilliant banker and single mother who has given up on romance, a suburban housewife who moonlights as a talk-show host and a travel writer who still wants to write her serious book. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Caroline Aaron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jay Paulson, Tony...