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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dealing openly with anti-Semitism and Nazi atrocities, the story spans World War I, Prohibition and the prelimanary volley of World War II. Fanny (Bette Davis) thrives on the adulation of countless suiters before and after she marries Job Skeffington (Claude Rains). Ravaged by age and illness, Fanny clings to Job's promise that "a woman is beautiful only when she is loved."
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Irene is a single career woman in her 40s with a job to die for. As the secret critic, she checks into the world's finest hotels to assess their standards. Her elegant, unattached lifestyle affords her the freedom to jet around the globe at a moment's notice to experience a world of luxury, but doesn't leave her with much of a personal life. After a chance meeting, she's compelled to re-examine her choices and charts her own path to happiness, despite...
4) Ice crawlers
Publisher
New Concorde
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
They have been asleep for millions of years in the desolate Antarctic wasteland where a team of researches have awakened them. Now they are mad and hungry for blood!
5) Why?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Would-be supervillain Doctor X-Ray swoops into the mall, threatening destruction, only to be confronted by a little girl asking "why" to his every declaration, until finally he is forced to reveal, and understand, the root of his anger--and so departs in peace.
7) Power play
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Northern California two successful CEOs are both indispensable to their growing companies' futures. Both are brilliant at the power game. But the difference between them is huge. One is a man, the other a woman. In this riveting novel, Danielle Steel explores what that means as she takes readers into the rarefied world of those at the pinnacle of international business and reveals the irrevocable choices they make, what drives them, and how others...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Bright's reputation can be summed up in one word: b*tch. It's no surprise she's queen bee at her private L.A. high school--she's beautiful, talented, and notorious for her brutal honesty. But when she slips up in front of her crush, Andrew, any affection he may have had for her quickly fades. To win him over, Cameron resolves to tame herself, much like Shakespeare's infamous shrew, Katherine. If she makes amends with everyone she's ever wronged,...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 1896 London, impoverished poet Robert Wallis accepts a commission from eccentric coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorize the diverse and elusive coffee flavors, an assignment that will transform his life as he falls in love with his assistant, Pinker's daughter Emily.
Author
Publisher
ProQuest LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This research project explored the anatomy of satisfaction of undergraduate students' experiences in order to identify the themes common to students who were satisfied with their college careers. The study also examined the conditions that help students thrive on campus focusing on college seniors who self-reported as very satisfied with their college experience. Furthermore the study analyzed the motivation behind satisfied students' behavioral...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband is fighting on the front lines when she is conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters. Twice a day, she and nine other women go to his secret headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, to eat his meals before he does forming a strange sisterhood"--
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Swedish
Description
The final installment of Stieg Larsson's 'Millennium' trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In an intensive care unit and charged with three murders, she will have to not only prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the same corruptgovernment institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now, Lisbeth Salander is fighting back.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes,...
17) The teacher
Series
Film Movement volume year 15, film 12
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Slovak
Description
In 1983, students and parents at a suburban Bratislava middle school must decide whether to go against new teacher Miss Drazdechova, a high-ranking official of the Communist Party who is tying pupils' grades to how helpful their families can be with favors.
Not recommended for ages under 17 without parental permission.