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1) Daisy Miller
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, NY, who traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American Expatriate community in Rome.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman, until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. She's wickedly smart, tantalisingly cunning, and she's living with a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
A young woman who has been traumatized by past events...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
6) Emma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents' stories. After bonding with Helene, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Helene to relive her memories of love and war, Helene encourages Justine to confront the secrets of her...
8) Tess
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A timeless adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic romance. Tess Darbeyville, a beautiful young peasant, seeks her fortune with the wealthy D'Urbervilles, whom her family believes to be distant relatives.
9) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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?
10) The Harvey girls
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Susan meets a cheery group of young women traveling out to open a 'Harvey House' restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers.
11) Persuasion
Language
English
Description
Anne Elliot is persuaded to break off an engagement to Capt. Wentworth, but tensions are resumed when they meet again eight years later.
12) Little women
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
13) Amélie
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
Français
Description
Quiet and reserved, Amelie Poulin spends her days as a waitress at a Paris cafe and entertains herself by playing kindhearted practical jokes on her neighbors, finding love in the meantime.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In a dystopian kill-or-be-killed future, a Russian mobster hires ruthless mercenary Toorop to smuggle a mysterious young woman named Aurora and her caretaker from a convent in post-apocalyptic Russia to the glittering megalopolis of New York City. But as the trio flee to safety, Toorop discovers deadly secrets about Aurora involving a doomsday cult.
Language
English
Description
The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
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.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When you're born a girl, some parts of the world are kinder places to grow up in than others. Meet Kaneila, Jade, Mahnoosh, Makena and Luisa. They are five girls in five different countries whose lives are overshadowed by violence and injustice, just because they are female. These girls navigate the challenges and horrors of period poverty, female genital mutilation, lack of access to education, body shaming and femicide. The stories are heartbreaking...
18) Babylon A.D
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
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...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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. Her genetic signature marks her as next...