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On a morning in 1924, a young woman rises from the floor of her family's small home in Belorussia to find her parents and her husband slaughtered beside her and her infant daughter, Sophie, missing. When her aunt tells her the baby is dead, Lillian emigrates to America. She is working as a seamstress at the Yiddish Theater and enjoying caf society when a cousin arrives and insists that her daughter is still alivein Siberia.Lillian cannot stop dreaming...
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Presents a musical retelling of the "Romeo and Juliet" story set in 1950s New York City, in which Tony, a former member of the Jets--an Anglo street gang--falls tragically in love with Maria, the innocent sister of Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks.
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Edward Lane runs a highly illegal, highly profitable soldiers-for-hire operation, so he will pay any amount to get his beautiful wife and child back from their kidnappers. And then he'll turn Jack Reacher loose with a vengeance because Reacher is the best man hunter in the world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Kristin Burns is a struggling photographer just waiting for the glamorous life of a New York photographer. While waiting for her big break she works as a nanny for the wealthy Turnbull family. When a forbidden love develops with the man of her dreams, her life may end up in a catastrophe.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
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2007, c2006
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English
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Presents the complete first season of the television series "Heroes," featuring twenty-three episodes in which ordinary people around the world awake to the realization that they have super powers, and slowly come together in an effort to stop a serial killer and save the world from nuclear disaster.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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A former First Lady dies, and the world's richest and most powerful figures gather for her funeral in New York City. When a ruthless madman hijacks the ceremony and threatens to turn the memorial service into a bloodbath, Detective Michael Bennett may be the only hope for ending the desperate stand-off.
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New York Times best-selling author Faye Kellerman delivers a riveting thriller starring LAPD Lieutenant Peter Decker. Murder hits close to home as the brother-in-law of Decker's half-brother is found dead in a seedy hotel room. Missing from the scene is the dead man's 15 year-old-niece. Pete finds the girl in the last place anyone would think to look, and soon devastating family secrets emerge.
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Angela De Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) is stuck in a marriage to a philanderer who also just happens to be a mobster, but she gets a new lease on life when he's iced by a ruthless kingpin (Dean Stockwell) who's always had a thing for Angela. Kissing the mafia arrivederci, Angela finds a new job in a beauty salon, but Stockwell is hot on her trail, determined to make her his mob mistress. Now, Angela must choose between helping the FBI or spending the...
11) Rise and shine
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It's Monday morning when Meghan Fitzmaurice blows her perfect life to bits. The host of "Rise and Shine," the country's highest rated morning talk show, Meghan cuts to a commercial break, but not before she mutters two forbidden words into her open mike. It's the end of an era, not only for Meghan, a household face who is not equipped to deal with disgrace, but for her younger sister Bridget, a social worker in the Bronx who has lived always in Meghan's...
13) Naked in death
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Eve Dallas, a New York police lieutenant in the year 2058, hunts for a ruthless killer and falls in love with Roarke, an enigmatic billionaire, and also a suspect in her investigation.
14) Words of silk
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Laney McLeod's life changes the minute she finds herself stuck in an elevator in Manhattan. Fighting her rising panic, she relies on handsome Deke Sargeant to help her overcome her claustrophobia. When the power comes back on, Deke and Laney find themselves in a passionate embrace that leads to a night of love in his apartment. Shocked at what she has done, Laney disappears, only to have Deke show up months later. Unable to forget the chemistry between...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent...
18) Inside man.
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Universal Pictures
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English
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NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
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[2018]
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"It isn't paranoia if it's really happening... Anna Fox lives alone -- a recluse in her New York City home, drinking too much wine, watching old movies... and spying on her neighbors. Then the Russells move next door: a father, a mother, their teenaged son. The perfect family. But when Anna sees something she shouldn't, her world begins to crumble -- and its shocking secrets are laid bare. What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in...
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2011
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Twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent, having met banker Tinker Grey while hanging out at a Greenwich Village jazz bar, finds her way into the upper echelons of New York society, and, as she makes new friends and waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize she regrets some of the choices she has made.
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