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1361) Great expectations
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
Author
Series
What did you eat yesterday? volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo experience new challenges both at work and at home. While Kenji struggles to adjust to his new position at the salon, Shiro has unexpected conversations with his parents about the future. Concerns about weight gain also lead to an overhauling of their long-established Christmas menu. In this volume, we see Shiro and Kenji themselves start to get on in years as they come to enjoy the simple joys of healthy...
1363) The cider house rules
Publisher
[Miramax Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Novelist John Irving pens a screenplay from his own best-selling book about an orphan who leaves the only family he's ever known, only to realize that his future is inescapably connected to his past.
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"While helping a friend clean out an old apartment in Paris, French diplomat Jean-Yves Berthault discovers a leather attache case hidden under a pile of old jars and papers. The case contained a collection of handwritten letters. Upon reading the first one, Berthault realizes an extraordinary adventure lies at his fingertips. The letters are penned by the mysterious Simone, a well-to-do Parisian woman, and written to her younger, married lover Charles...
1365) Lincoln and his boys
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Brothers Willie and Taddie share stories about their father, Abraham Lincoln, from 1859 to 1865.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show - already regarded as "the leading light"...
1370) Ask the dust: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2006, c1980
Language
English
Description
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and...
1371) Land ho!
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Two ex-brothers-in-laws set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This adventure is a throwback to 1980s road trip comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
1372) Mr. Popper's penguins
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Popper's Penguins is the story of a boy whose explorer father loves him but neglects him in favor of his career. Once the boy grows to sharkish real-estate wheeler-dealer manhood in NYC, he does the same thing to his wife, daughter, and son. Promised a partner position in his real-estate firm, he woos a reluctant seller to part with the Tavern on the Green. Life is going fine until his dad's final gift to him arrives. Then Mr. Popper's life changes...
1373) Trainspotting
Author
Series
Trainspotting volume 1
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A jarring, fragmented ride through the dark underbelly of Edinburgh, the festival city. There is not an advocate, a festival performer or a fur coat in sight as, with bitter passion and rancid humour, Welsh lays bare the lives of this ill-starred bunch of addicts, alcoholics and no-hopers.
1374) Of mice and men
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Series
Criterion collection volume 173
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt,...
1377) The sign of the beaver
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Although he faces responsibility bravely, thirteen-year-old Matt is more than a little apprehensive when his father leaves him alone to guard their new cabin in the wilderness. When a renegade white stranger steals his gun, Matt realizes he has no way to shoot game or to protect himself. When Matt meets Attean, a boy in the Beaver clan, he begins to better understand their way of life and their growing problem in adapting to the white man and the...
1378) Rebound
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In season four, Willis sues the school basketball team when he loses his position to a white player because of their affirmative action policy. A visit from a Korean woman reveals that Mr. Drummond may have fathered her son during the Korean War. After the schoolyard bullies put Willis in the hospital, Arnold considers wearing a wire to try and get evidence on them. Contains 26 original episodes.
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