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3021) Jane Slayre
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This clever and funny literary mash-up rewrites Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" so that Jane is a vampire slayer and Rochester's wife is a werewolf. After learning of her parents' history as slayers, Jane must follow her true calling while trying to remain true to her heart.
3023) Stories of bravery!
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This Step into Reading collection features five American Girl leveled readers, including Freedom for Addy, Kaya Rides to the Rescue, Melody Lifts her Voice, Molly's Christmas Surprise, and Samantha Helps a Friend. With exciting, inspiring stories about girls who faced big challenges with bravery and determination, this book is the perfect gift for young readers ages 4 to 7. The stories cover a range of settings and topics, including finding freedom...
3024) Shadya
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
עברית
Description
Shadya Zoabi, like most 17-year-old girls, enjoys listening to music and hanging out with her friends. But unlike most other girls, Shadya is also a world champion in karate, a feminist in a male-dominated culture, and a Muslim Arab living in Israel. This film tells her story over the course of two years, as she journeys from teenage girl to woman, from daughter to wife, and from one family to another.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium: Mr. Magorium owns the most amazing store in the world, where all the toys literally come to life. When the boss decides to retire, the shop throws a tantrum, and all its wonders begin to cease. Now Mr. Magorium's reluctant manager, skeptical accountant, and most loyal customer must work together to save the emporium by finding a little magic within themselves.
Night at the museum: Larry Daley is a divorced father who...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A work of both childhood memory and adult reflection undergirded with scholarly research, A Final Reckoning resonates with emotional intensity and insight. Ruth Gutmann's memoir, first published in Germany in 2002, recounts her life not only as a concentration camp inmate and survivor, but also as a sister and daughter. Ruth; her twin sister, Eva; stepmother, Mania; and father, Samuel Herskovits, were interned in both Thereisenstadt and Auschwitz-Birkenau...
3028) Der Tod so kalt
Author
Publisher
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
Pub. Date
©2017
Language
Deutsch
Description
A New York documentary filmmaker, visiting his wife's small mountain community in the majestic Italian Dolomites, is challenged to unravel the truth about a decades-old triple murder in the wake of a devastating accident.
Author
Publisher
Ying shu Weijing qun dao shang Gao bao guo ji you xian gong si Taiwan fen gong si
Pub. Date
2010
Language
中文
Description
After the murder of their mother by their father, Lulu and Merry grow up living tenuous lives where Lulu denies he ever existed and Merry dutifully visits him in prison, only to find their lives on the brink of collapse when they learn that their unrepentant and manipulative father is about to be paroled.
3031) Divan =: Diṿan
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her [Hasidic] Jewish community in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Many years later, Pearl's father has one wish: that she marry and return to the community . Pearl, however, takes a more creative approach to mend the breach. She travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom: a couch upon which esteemed rabbis once slept. En route for the ancestral divan, Pearl encounters a colorful...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Brown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A tale of two citites: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to...
3033) A tale of two cities
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of Dicken's classic tale of love and sacrifice in the days leading up to the French Revolution in graphic format.
3034) King Lear
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format.
3035) Bound by sea
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Profiles a family that travels around the world to teach surfing to children with visual and other disabilities.
3036) Korolʹ Lir =: King Lear
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Russian
Description
A dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which tragedy occurs when an old king prematurely divides his kingdom among his daughters in the vain hope that they will care for him in his old age.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Happily n'ever after: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the Wizard's bumbling assistants.
Happily...
Author
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man--and herself--and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told her about his life, DeSalvo began to understand that her obsession with...
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