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82) The ring
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1929 Paris, Marielle and Charles Delauney's happy life is shattered by an accident that claims their son's life, ends their marriage, and threatens Marielle's sanity. Years later, when a son by another marriage disappears, she considers her ex-husband as the prime suspect.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Selection and adaptation of seventy-five Grimm's fairy tales, as translated by Jack Zipes, and newly illustrated by Shaun Tan.
In this beautifully presented volume, the essence of seventy-five fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm is wonderfully evoked by Shaun Tan's extraordinary sculptures. Nameless princes, wicked stepsisters, greedy kings, honourable peasants and ruthless witches, tales of love, betrayal, adventure and magical transformation: all...
Publisher
Gia Dinh Productions
Pub. Date
[200-?]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Thi Mich, a country girl, is engaged to be married. But then she is raped by Nghi Hach, a government official, and becomes pregnant by him. Her family sues him, but Nghi Hach wins. He decides to marry Thi Mich in order to avoid bad publicity. However, Thi Mich is still in love with her former fiance.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The popular view of the First World War is dominated by cliche. Young soldiers were led to ghastly deaths in muddy wastes on the Western Front by incompetent generals for reasons that were seemingly futile. And although cliches are not necessarily lies, they are, at best, a selective view of the truth.
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
日本語
Description
Revolving around the changing of the seasons, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four sisters who have taken on their family's kimono manufacturing business, over the course of a number of years leading up to the Pacific War. A graceful study of a family at a turning point in history, and a poignant evocation of changing times and fading customs.
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish encourages readers to boldly be exactly who they are. Written by a founding member of the nationally recognized Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), this playful picture book offers a quirky twist on a classic nursery rhyme by illustrating all of the ways to "work it". The story plays off "The Wheels on the Bus" as it follows a drag queen who performs her routine in front of an awestruck audience. A fun...
90) A sip of Aesop
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Retells, in verse, thirteen fables from the Greek slave, Aesop, including "The Hare and the Tortoise," "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," and "The Fox and the Stork."
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of...
92) Taking lives
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
It is FBI profiler Illeana Scott's job to know what makes a killer tick. To anticipate his moves. To close off countermoves. But somehow this killer knows more about her than she does about him.
"Somber, absorbing thriller that treads familiar psycho killer terrain with style."--Variety.
"Two thumbs up!"--Ebert & Roeper.
" ... is smarter than your average serial-killer movie ..."--New York Post.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the life of Snow White's stepmother, the Wicked Queen, to find out just what it is that makes her so evil that she would want to cut out her teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered in a locked keepsake box.
Sometimes it's all a matter of the choices we make ... What choices did Snow White's stepmother, the Wicked Queen, make that would turn her so evil she would want to cut out her step-daughter's heart? Does it have something...
96) Siegfried
Publisher
Manufactured and marketed by Universal Classics Group
Pub. Date
c2002, 1991
Language
Deutsch
Description
The third opera in the "Ring cycle." Siegfried follows the adventures of the son of demigods Siegmund and Sieglinde as he conquers his enemies and rescues the beauteous Brunnhilde with the help of his magic sword.
97) Das Rheingold
Publisher
Distributed by Universal Classics Group
Pub. Date
c2002, 1991
Language
Deutsch
Description
The first segment of the "Ring" cycle, Das Rheingold is concerned with a precious treasure -- the Rhinegold -- which, if made into a ring, would enable the wearer dominion over the world, however, whoever would steal the gold would have to renounce love.
98) The mermaid
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Set in the ocean off Japan, this retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears stars Kiniro, a mermaid, who finds a baby octopus's breakfast, chair, and bed just right"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
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