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(0)Michael York
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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English
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Now more than ever: Aldous Huxley's enduring masterwork must be read and understood by anyone concerned with preserving the human spirit
"A masterpiece. . . . One of the most prophetic dystopian works." —Wall Street Journal
Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically
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English
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This special edition of Lewis Carroll's timeless classic - complete and unabridged - is beautifully illustrated by Fran Parreño. Follow Alice's adventures as she disappears down a rabbit-hole and meets a cast of curious characters, including a White Rabbit, a Mad Hatter, and a grinning Cheshire Cat...
Publisher
Hollywood Entertainment DVD
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A beautiful Canadian journalist tries to come to the aid of a fatally ill young woman behind the Iron Curtain. But the journalist is also engaged in a passionate and dangerous affair with a high-ranking government official.
7) Moscow heat
Publisher
Lightning Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A retired diplomat and an NYPD dective seeking justice pursue a psychotic murderer to Moscow. When the detective is wounded and the diplomat is arrested, they are assigned to be deported by a Russian Police Captain.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dr. Moreau is brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits the island laboratory he discovers experiments turning animal life forms into human-like beasts. The beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a Tennessee state of mind -- a realm of places, personalities and ideas. Williams is front and center for this exploration, reading from his works, placing them in the context of his life, and serving as guide in visits to his career-shaping refuge in New Orleans and his latter-day writing quarters in Key West. Also dramatizations...
10) Logan's run
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the 23rd century, humans forsake the ravaged outer environment by living in a vast, bubbled metropolis. There, computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs and everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that is, until Lastday. That's when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth. Logan 5, a Sandman authorized to terminate Runners fleeing Carrousel, decides to become a Runner himself...
11) Romeo & Juliet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy in which two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their own lives.
14) True women
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A powerful, moving story about two fearless women, of friendship, romance, courage and survival in the Old West. When Mexican forces threaten their homeland, Sarah Ashby McClure and her younger sister Euphemia, move their family and friends to safety. Resettling on the rugged West Texas plains, they soon become targets of Indian raids. They are determined to defend their homeland while their men fight in the Civil War.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Logan's Run : In the Year of the City 2274, humans live in a vast, bubbled metropolis where computerized servo-mechanisms provide all needs so everyone can pursue endless hedonism. Endless, that ism until Lastday, when anyone who's 30 must submit to Carrousel, a soaring, spinning trip to eternity and supposed rebirth.
Omega Man : Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert...
16) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Publisher
Weston Woods Studios, a subsidiary of SCHOLASTIC Inc
Language
English
Description
A courageous mongoose becomes the loyal pet of a small boy named Teddy, and protects him and his family from two evil cobras who live in their garden.
Awards: Caldecott Honor Book; ALA Notable Audio Recording
