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81) Monkey love
Publisher
Ardustry Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
College senior Amy is stuck-in-a-rut and about to discover there's nothing like sex to mess with your head and throw a monkey wrench into your life. Living at home with her annoying parents and trapped in a platonic triangle with her two best pals since elementary school, Dil and Aaron, Amy decides to make a drastic change. Convinced that the only way to open her life up to new and exciting experiences is to get rid of her best friends, she decides...
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English
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As the temperature rises in Gaborone, Precious Ramotswe, founder of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wonders whether the heat could be the reason that business is particularly slow. But then a distant cousin of Mma Ramotswe's comes to the agency with a plea for help and the ladies decide to pursue the issue together. Armed with Mma Ramotswe's circumspection and Mma Makutsi's sharp eye, they proceed with confidence and open hearts. What, after all,...
85) Why we fight
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Explores a half-century of U.S. foreign policy from World War II to the Iraq War, revealing how, as Dwight Eisenhower had warned in his 1961 Farewell Address, political and corporate interests have become alarmingly entangled in the business of war. On a deeper level, what emerges is a portrait of a nation in transition--drifting dangerously far from her founding principles toward a more imperial and uncertain future.
87) The nickel boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 940L
Language
English
Description
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Valentine Xavier leaves the entertainment world in New Orleans after he has one too many encounters with the law. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small town, where his past comes back to haunt him and he attracts two women.
89) The Elite
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever -- and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen? America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want -- and America's chance to choose is about...
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English
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"In the twenty-fifth installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, when an inscrutable newcomer arrives in Finch, Lori is determined to befriend him--and in the process discovers Finch's own heart-wrenching past. It's early May in the small English village of Finch and the air is crackling with excitement: a newcomer is about to move into Pussywillows, a riverside cottage with a romantic reputation. Will the cottage's newest resident prove yet...
91) A killer stitch
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When an alpaca sheep rancher with a reputation as a unrepentant playboy turns up dead in Bellevue Canyon, ardent knitter and occasional sleuth Kelly Flynn launches a personal investigation into the murder.
92) China seas
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Rugged Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo : a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries. Both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!--Container
93) The nines
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The lives of an actor, a television game show personality, and a videogame designer are intertwined, and the lines between fantasy and reality become blurred. Three linked stories that exist in distinct but overlapping parallel universes, each challenging the other's claim to reality.
94) Betrayals
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Series
Publisher
Random House Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Olivia's life exploded--after she found out she was not the adopted child of a privileged Chicago family but of a notorious pair of convicted serial killers--she found a refuge in the secluded but oddly welcoming town of Cainsville, Illinois. Working with Gabriel Walsh, a fiendishly successful criminal lawyer with links to the town, she discovered the truth about her parents' crimes in an investigation that also revealed the darker forces at...
95) Passing
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
Two light-skinned African American women try to pass for white to escape racism, and Clare Kendry cuts her ties to the past and to Irene Redfield, ignoring the fact that that racism exists. -- Novelist.
96) Miss Sarajevo
Publisher
Bill Carter
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Documentary that portrays the lives of people in Sarajevo during the seige of 1992-1996.
97) Kilo class
Author
Series
Admiral Arnold Morgan volume 02
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A techno-thriller on a covert operation by the U.S. Navy to intercept and destroy Russian submarines being sold to China. The submarines are of an advanced design and would enable China to attack Taiwan.
98) The cutting edge
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A handsome, self-centered ex-ice hockey player and a champion figure skater with a prima donna attitude are mis-matched partners in the quest for an Olympic gold medal.
99) Greenwich Park
Author
Language
English
Description
"A sophisticated female-led thriller about a woman whose life starts to unravel as a result of her friendship with an unpredictable single mother, Greenwich Park explores the terrible consequences of guilt, the complexity of female friendships, and the fallibility of the memories we cherish"--
100) Diabolique
Series
Criterion collection volume 35
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Français
Description
The headmaster of a Parisian boarding school is murdered by his wife and mistress.