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2) Sail
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was the 1950s, a time of calm, a time when all things were new and everything seemed possible. A few years before, a noble war had been won, and now life had returned to normal. For one little boy, however, life had become anything but "normal." To all appearances, he and his family lived an almost idyllic life. The father was a respected professor, the mother a witty and elegant lady, someone everyone loved. They were parents to three bright,...
6) The Sopranos
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano, a New Jersey mob boss finds his life, what with hits, extortion and Mafia business, as well as his mother, teenage kids and wife, so stressful that he seeks out psychotherapy.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Lorna Person grows up unintentionally neglected in the shadow cast by her crazy sister, and it is not until she grows older that she finally gets the attention she needs when she takes to the stage.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Lawrence travels with his mother and younger sister to Rome, fleeing torment from his estranged father, and while staying in the homes of his mother's old friends, Lawrence looks at his new life as an adventure, until his father reappears.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly-and perhaps irrevocably-in this surprising, suspenseful love story
Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in London. He reads the world a little differently from most people and has trouble with such ordinary activities as lying, deciphering expressions, recognizing faces. Verona is thirty-seven, confident, hot-tempered,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the day that Morgan-Lee is born, her extraordinarily beautiful and withdrawn older brother, Ginx, is obsessed by her. Inhabiting their own parallel world, the two communicate through a secret language and make-believe stories; when Morgan-Lee begins to explore friendships beyond their closed circle, however, Ginx becomes increasingly disturbed. In luminous prose, Martha Witt explores the intense and private world inhabited by these siblings and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven-year-old Callie, silent since a violent incident in her home three years earlier, is dragged off into the forest by her drunk, irrational father Griff one morning, and when her friend, Petra, disappears from her home at the same time, things begin to look very dark for Griff.
15) The ice storm
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, c1997
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Hood is reeling from drink, while his wife reads self-help books and loses patience with her husband's lies. Their son Paul, home for the holidays, escapes to the city to pursue an alluring girl, and Wendy Hood is roaming the neighborhood looking for something new.
16) Starman Jones
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2005, c1953
Language
English
Description
When his stepmother's remarriage drives him from home, Max and a hobo fake their way into the Space Stewards, Cooks, and Purser's Clerks brotherhood to get an opportunity for space travel in an age when only the wealthy are privileged.
17) La bûche
Publisher
distributed by Wellspring
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
Français
Description
When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test their love and their loyalties.
19) The ref
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003], c1994
Language
English
Description
A cat buglar takes a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve and ends up trying to resolve their problems.
20) The mercy rule
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Pediatrician Dr. Lucy Weiss, raised in the foster care system, struggles to achieve the right balance between work and home while questioning her own parenting abilities, as well as those of the parents of her young patients.
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