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Lexile Measure
600L
Summary
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark." Brooding Hamlet, the son of the recently deceased king, is about to discover the royal family's corruption firsthand. Taken by the castle watchman to meet the apparition they see at night, Hamlet is surprised to find it is his father's ghost. Hamlet seeks to avenge his father's dishonorable death, but the casualties along the way may prove to be just as tragic. Enter William Shakespeare's famous world...
2) Hamlet
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"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...
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When veteran award-winning radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua was a student in his final semester at Kean College in 1982, he produced and directed a radio version of Hamlet.
Casting Kean faculty and students, and portraying the melancholy Danish prince himself, Bevilacqua not only completed his nearly four-hour radio adaption of Shakespeare's greatest work, he did so while carrying a double major, producing, acting in, and sometimes writing radio...
5) Death wish
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
A family man becomes a vigilante killing machine when his family is violently attacked by robbers.
6) True grit
Summary
Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshal with an affinity for drinking, and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution....
Pub. Date
[2023]
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John Wick uncovers a trail to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful associations across500 Special features: Chad and Keanu: through wick and thin; The blind leading the fight; Theatrical trailers. the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
11) Mean Creek
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Summary
Follows a bunch of ragtag teenagers who take a boat trip on a nearby creek to celebrate their youngest member's birthday. They have an ulterior motive - to payback a local bully for his cruelities to the birthday boy. This is a hearty dose of how revenge can change a life in 24 hours.
12) Poker face
Pub. Date
[2023]
Summary
A yearly high-stakes poker game between childhood friends turns into chaos when the tech billionaire host unveils an elaborate scheme to seek revenge for the ways they've betrayed him over the years. But as his plans unfold, a group of thieves hatches plans of their breaking into the mansion thinking it is empty. The old friends quickly band together and the years of playing the game help them win their way through a night of terror.
13) Border town
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
A man travels to a small town over the Mexican border to reclaim his daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers and fulfill the promise he made to kill her abductors.
14) The Ant bully
Pub. Date
2006
Summary
When you're as small as an ant, the world is big - and the adventure is bigger! That's what young Lucas learns after he aims his water pistol at some hapless ants. They retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size.
15) The assignment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Summary
Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of a vengeful surgeon known as The Doctor, whose brother was recently murdered by Frank.
17) Double jeopardy
Pub. Date
c1999
Summary
Libby Parsons discovers that the husband she was convicted of murdering staged his own death and framed her for the crime.
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In frigid Wyoming lies a mystery that stretches back to Nazi Germany.
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals...
Lyle and Juan wait outside the lawyer's house in ski masks, pistols hidden behind their backs. Shortly after dawn, Paul Parker, an aged lawyer, and his old dog step into the cold. The thugs kill the dog, and take the lawyer hostage. Parker's day has started badly and is going to get much worse. Once a fine lawyer, Parker's enthusiasm has slipped with age, and criminals...
19) The perfect guy
Summary
After breaking up with her boyfriend, a professional woman gets involved with a man who seems almost too good to be true.