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1) Vanity fair
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English
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"No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth than the alluring, resourceful Becky Sharp, who ruthlessly clambers up the social ladder while her sweet, sentimental friend Amelia longs for her worthless soldier lover. As fortunes change, and battles are fought at home and abroad, who will survive?" -- Book cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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"A novel of manners about the romantic pas de deux between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despite Elizabeth's negative feelings about Darcy, fate seems determined to keep throwing this pair together, and Darcy, almost in spite of himself, will make revelations that will end up causing Elizabeth to question everything she believes. Set in a time when marrying well was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Includes a biography of H. G. Wells and a bibliography of his novels A classic science fiction novel by Herbert G. Wells The Martians invade the Earth. The human soldiers can’t do anything against their tripod fighting machines. Mankind seemed beyond help, but .... The story became famous in 1938. A radio play terrified America. Adapted for the screen several times e.g. 2005 by Steven Spielberg with Tom Cruise in a leading role. Published in 1898,...
Series
Classic collection volume 1
Publisher
Classic Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Casper the Friendly Ghost has always been the ghost who would rather make friends than frighten. Join him on this spooktacular adventures. These 12 cartoons are fun for the whole family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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During the French Revolution a young English lawyer goes to the guillotine to save a French aristocrat, husband of the woman he loves. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times ..." With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, Dickens vividly captures the terror and upheaval of that tumultuous period. At the center is the...
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English
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In this Orwellian dramatization, religion becomes a tool of repression and social control to force women into the roles of stay-at-home wives, domestic staff, prostitutes, or surrogate mothers. They have no rights to their bodies or property and are completely dependent upon men. Those women who have had at least one child find themselves forced into the role of breeding machine, producing children for childless couples.
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Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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A compilation of the best Saturday night live moments of comedian John Belushi. Spanning 1975-1979, this collection features Belushi playing both popular characters like the Samurai, a Killer Bee, the Olympia restaurant cook, Jake the Blues Brother (not to mention Marlon Brando), as well as 'himself' in mock commercials, on Weekend Update commentaries, and in Tom Schiller's poignant short film "Don't look back in anger."
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Meet George Jetson and his quirky family: wife Jane, son Elroy, and daughter Judy. Living in the automated, push-button world of the future hasn't made life any easier for the harried husband and father, who gets into one comical misadventure after another!
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Hanna-Barbera Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tiny, blue, international celebrities the Smurfs, all 101 of them, dwell joyfully together in a medieval forest village. Only three apples tall, they live in mushroom houses and take their morning showers with dewdrops. Papa Smurf, wise beyond his 543 years, gently rules a raucous clan.
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Shaw Brothers classic collection volume 11
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Dragon Dynasty/Weinstein Company/Genius Products
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Language
中文(繁體)
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A young man learns martial arts and how to use his body as well as other weapons to seek revenge on the group that killed his masters.
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Focus on the Family Radio Theatre
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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As a young man, Tisquantum (later called Squanto) is kidnapped by slave traders and transported overseas. Years later, when he is finally granted passage back to his native land, Squanto has every reason to hate the white man. Instead, he graciously forgives him and helps the Pilgrims settle into the New World.
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
中文(繁體)
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The martial arts film that inspired generations of action films, rap music, and pop culture, The Five Venoms is the story of the last student of a dying martial arts master who is trying to fulfill his master's wish to find his five disciples and bring them together -- or bring them to justice. The student, not fully trained, embarks on a quest for these deadly and mysterious experts, each of whom has been trained in a different fighting style.
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English
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"This work focuses on such subjects as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up a girl in California, ruminating on the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture."--Back of book.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Return in this second part of their sophomore season collection. Strap in alongside George, Jane, Judy, Elroy, Astro, and Rosie and go soaring into their fantastic world of rocket cars, rocking robots, and cranky computers. The once and future fan favorite family stands ready to show us that wherever or whenever you live, people, love, and laughs are still the same.
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