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3) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
4) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
5) Rabbit hole
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Becca and Howie Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss. Just eight months ago, they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm, and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape. The journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted...
6) Tanqueray
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2019, Humans of New York featured a photo of a woman in an outrageous fur coat and hat she made herself. She instantly captured the attention of millions. Her name is Stephanie Johnson, but she's better known to HONY followers as "Tanqueray," the indefatigable woman who was once one of the best-known burlesque dancers in New York City. Brandon Stanton chronicled her life in the longest series he had yet posted on HONY, but, now, Stephanie Johnson--a...
7) The hard way
Series
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"Helen Chernen wants to get herself and her talented kid sister Katie out of their jerkwater hometown. And if that means using people and throwing them away, that's what Helen will do."--Container.
8) Deathtrap
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A playwright with writer's block is desperate for a new hit play, and just may steal it from his gifted student.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Mariah Fredericks's Death of a Showman, the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York, lady's maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway. It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott--lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family--has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find musician Leo Hirschfeld playing the Tylers' piano. Jane's...
10) Stages
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Stages is a moving and surprisingly funny vérité exploration of the unexpected power of the simple act of storytelling. In New York City's oldest community center, a group of older Puerto Rican women and inner-city youth come together to create an original play out of the stories of their lives. Weaving together themes of immigration, identity, aging and coming of age, Stages offers an intimate portrait of an unlikely ensemble, transformed by...
Publisher
Video Artists International
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In late summer 1957, Broadway stars Mary Martin and John Raitt united for a special run of the show that began in San Francisco, moved on to Los Angeles, and culminated in an adaptation for TV, telecast live on Thanksgiving Eve. (Though broadcast in color it was only preserved in black and white.)
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