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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Season two returns as the Great War rages across Europe, and not even the serene Yorkshire countryside is free from its effects. The men and women of Downton are doing their part both on the front lines and the home front, but the intensity of war only serves to inflame the more familiar passions of love, loss, blackmail, and betrayal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt advertises for a reliable wife to make a home for him on his estate in rural Wisconsin in the early twentieth century and although he knows immediately that Catherine Land is not the woman she presented herself to be, he decides to marry her anyway in what becomes a risky arrangement for them both.
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Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners is one of the most enduring love stories in English literature In a remote Hertfordshire village in the early nineteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have a problem. Or rather, five vivacious, headstrong problems: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. Mr. Bennet loves his daughters dearly, but spends more time with his nose buried in a book than planning for their futures. Since her husband's property...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Julie Harmon, having taken over the work of a man after her father gets ill and dies, imagines that marriage will be different, but she and her young husband Hank discover their life together is also full of struggles.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
9) Shackleton
Publisher
A&E Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
True story of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic adventures. Bound for Antartica in 1914, Shackleton's ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ten months later, the ship sank, stranding Shackleton and his crew of 27. Based on the diaries and first person accounts of expedition members, the film tells of their ordeal and their 800-mile journey in an open boat across the world's worst seas that made their rescue possible.
10) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Crichton's ultimate adventure." -- San Francisco Chronicle " Pirates Latitudes has the loot: Gore, sex, action ... .A lusty, rollicking 17th century adventure." -- USA Today "Riveting ... .Great entertainment ... .The pages and minutes fly by." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer #1 New York Times bestselling author, the incomparable Michael Crichton ("One of the great storytellers of our age" -- Newsday ) takes to the high Caribbean seas for an irresistible...
Publisher
A&E Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the true story of British agent Sydney Reilly, the world's first superspy. The story begins while he is gathering information that will help the Japanese Navy destroy the Russians in the early 1900's and continues through to his destruction of the Trust while pitted against the leader of Russia himself, Josef Stalin.
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English
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""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight.this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles...
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English
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Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
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A Great War has ended, but evil still casts a long shadow over a violence-scarred land. One woman -- an adventurer and archaeologist with a brilliant mind -- must now confront a dreadful adversary more fiendish and formidable than any she has ever encountered. But by doing so, she may be feeding the flames of a devastating firestorm that threatens the fragile lives of the tender and innocent.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Nicholas becomes the head of the family when his father dies unexpectedly. Keeping watch over his mother and his sister Kate becomes an even greater challenge when Nicholas discovers that his father lost the family fortune due to ill-advised investments. Without a shilling to his name, Nicholas turns to his wealthy but unforgiving Uncle Ralph for help.
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