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41) Moonstruck
Summary
A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancae's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
Three Sisters (1900) is a drama in four acts by Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov. It was first performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, directed by acclaimed actor Konstantin Stanislavski-who also played the role of Aleksandr Ignatyevich Vershinin, a philosophizing artillery officer in love with middle Prozorov sister Masha. Reviews were mixed at first, but as the play continued to run, Three Sisters became a popular success,...
43) The Sheepman
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
Story of a sheep farmer, cattle baron and the woman who came between them.
Author
Lexile Measure
1140L
Summary
Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him from...
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Summary
In Royal wedding, Tom and Ellen are a pair of siblings whose London stage engagement overlaps Princess Elizabeth's royal wedding. If love can make anyone dance on the ceiling and walls, Tom's the one.
In Belle of New York, A free-spirited playboy attempts to prove his worth to a delectable Bowery mission worker through dazzling song and dance routines in this lavish turn-of-the-century musical.
47) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
840L
Appears on list
Summary
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
48) Les girls
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Summary
A cheeky musical variation on Rashomon, the film gives three flashbacks on the Parisian sojourn of a dance master and his featured artists.
49) The moonstone
Author
Summary
The Moonstone was published in 1868 and concerns the huge yellow diamond of the title that was once stolen from an Indian shrine. Rachel Verrinder receives the stone as a gift and does not realise that it has been passed to her in a sinister form of revenge by John Herncastle who, it transpires, acquired the moonstone by means of murder and theft. The jewel also brings bad luck. The stone disappears on the very night it is given to Rachel, though,...
50) Agnes Grey
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Series
Summary
Originally quite scandalous and based on the author's own troubled life, this biting social commentary reveals the hardships of a governess's life.
51) The wolf man
Summary
Upon the death of his brother, Talbot returns from America to his ancestral home in Wales. He visits a gypsy camp with Jenny, a village girl, he is attacked by Bela, a gypsy who has turned into a werewolf. Talbot kills the werewolf but is bitten during the fight. Bela's mother tells him that this will cause him to become a werewolf at each full moon. Talbot confesses his plight to his unbelieving father, Sir John, who then joins the villagers in a...
52) The jungle books
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
1080L
Summary
Mowgli, lost in the deep jungle as a child, is adopted into a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger, Mowgli is allowed to run with the wolf pack under the protection of Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the brown bear who teaches wolf cubs the Laws of the Jungle. Through his many adventures, Mowgli evolves from a vengeful member of the pack to a just and compassionate human being who at last returns to join perhaps to lead...
53) Patton
Summary
Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Summary
The swashbuckling romantic lover Don Juan is sent back to Spain in disgrace, where he discovers the oppression of the people and wins the heart of the queen; set in seventeenth-century England, a surgeon becomes a pirate after he is arrested and condemned to slavery for caring for a rebel against the king; Lord Robin of Locksley protects the Saxon peasants from the Norman lords and wins the heart of Maid Marian; in the days when England controlled...
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
This collection contains twelve of the greatest radio shows ever broadcast during the golden age of radio. You'll hear Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in Amos 'n' Andy; Bob Bailey in Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; Jim and Marian Jordan in Fibber McGee and Molly; William Bendix as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley; Eve Arden as Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks; William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke; Edward G. Robinson in a terrifying...
Author
Lexile Measure
810L
Summary
Seven year old Sara Crewe learns of the tragic death of her father not long after she is left in the care of Miss Michin, headmistress of a boarding school. Now an orphan and stripped of her family fortune, Sara must survive the emotional trials of loss and the mental anguish of abuse at the hands of her new caretakers.
Pub. Date
c2003
Summary
Two high living young people (Marion and George) are killed by an avalanche while skiing. Their house is purchased by a conservative, non-assertive middle-aged man (Topper) and his forceful wife. The young couple returns to their home to live as ghosts and only the man of the house can see and talk with them, causing misunderstandings and comedic situations.
In "The proposal, " Marion realizes she and George are technically no longer married forcing...
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
On a skiing vacation in Europe, George and Marion Kerby were trapped in an avalanche along with their would-be rescuer, a St. Bernard named Neil. All three died, only to return to the United States to haunt their former home, now occupied by a grumpy and uptight banker named Cosmo Topper. Only Topper could hear and see the friendly ghosts who would try to help him loosen up and enjoy life, but more often all they did was complicate it!
In "Second...
