Claire Danes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
The Handmaid's Tale is not only a radical and brilliant departure for Margaret Atwood, it is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States, now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Films Corporation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrie's hands, leading to one of the most suspenseful and shocking season...
Series
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
After years of living apart, John arrives in New York to deliver divorce papers to world-famous ice skater Elena. But as he re-enters Elena's high-profile world, he discovers things that are slowly destroying his estranged wife.
8) Shopgirl
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Ray Porter is a buttoned-down 50-something executive who reaches out to a much younger woman as his Los Angeles playmate. Mirabelle, a 20-something with a pile of promises, debt, and depression, fades away in a slow corner of Saks, while trying to sell unneeded formal gloves. She's a wisp of a person, with a cat who doesn't love her, and when she finds a suitor, it's Jeremy, a scruffy artist who babbles on about speakers. When the gentlemanly Porter...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As Carrie and Saul search for the truth behind the bombing of CIA headquarters, lines are blurred between friend and foe and no one can be trusted. While hiding a stunning secret of her own, Carrie helps recruit Brody for a dangerous mission that could offer him a chance at redemption. But when the plan unravels and Brody is targeted deep inside Iran, he must put his life in Carrieś hands, leading to one of the most suspenseful and shocking season...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With a paranoid president facing investigation and the country tearing itself apart, Carrie and Saul must determine who they can trust in the gripping seventh season. As President Keane finds herself under threat from forces outside the government and within, Carrie embarks on a mission to unravel the truth and bring down a harrowing conspiracy.
12) Stage beauty
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1660's England when it was illegal for women to act in theater and men played female roles, stage "leading lady" Ned Kynaston's career is headed for a downfall when King Charles II becomes bored with theater and lifts the ban on actresses.
13) Igby goes down
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of the adult world, his already jaded outlook grows even darker....
14) Brokedown palace
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Formats
Description
On vacation in a foreign land, best friends Alice and Darlene fall for the same mysterious man in this riveting thriller.
15) The family Stone
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiance Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
16) The family Stone
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiance Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
18) Les miserables
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
19) Little women
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through the years, as they become women, the sisters share their...