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1) Dear John
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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"In addition to being among the most celebrated of contemporary filmmakers, Quentin Tarantino is possibly the most joyously infectious movie lover alive. For years he has touted in interviews his eventual turn to writing books about films. Now, with Cinema Speculation, the time has come, and the results are everything his passionate fans--and all movie lovers--could have hoped for. Organized around key American films from the 1970s, all of which he...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ocean's Twelve reintroduces Ocean and his perfectly trained team of con men. Dividing forces to hit Paris, Amsterdam, and Rome, the heist-meisters move beyond casinos to tackle new objectives, one of which involves stealing a famous painting.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Hazel and Gus are two extraordinary teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on an unforgettable journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that they met and fell in love at a cancer support group.
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English
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Released in conjunction with the 75th-anniversary DVD release of The Wizard of Oz, this book is the definitive story of how one of America's most beloved movies was made and a marvelous, unprecedented examination of how Hollywood used to make movies. This updated edition includes numerous photos and shares hundreds of interviews with cameramen, screenwriters, costume designers, directors, producers, light technicians, actors, and more to reveal how...
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English
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Hollywood historian and film reviewer Leonard Maltin invites readers to pull up a chair and listen as he tells stories, many of them hilarious, of 50+ years interacting with legendary movie stars, writers, directors, producers, and cartoonists. Maltin grew up in the first decade of television, immersing himself in TV programs and accessing 1930s and 40s movies hitting the small screen. His fan letters to admired performers led to unexpected correspondences,...
8) My old lady
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
9) Room
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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After five-year old Jack and his mother escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
10) Judy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years after rising to global stardom in The Wizard of Oz, showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London to perform a five-week sold-out run at The Talk of the Town. While preparing for the shows, Garland battles with management, reminisces with friends and adoring fans, and embarks on a whirlwind romance with soon-to-be fifth husband Mickey Deans, all while bravely struggling to overcome intensifying anxiety and physical decline."--Container....
11) CREED
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The legend and saga of Creed continues in graphic novels, under the creative direction of director and star Michael B. Jordan and Outlier Society!
Ten years after the events of the blockbuster film, Creed 3, Amara Creed is on her own path, weaving outside her father Adonis Creed?s shadow, training like there?s no tomorrow.
But when her division opponents no longer present a challenge, Amara's drive will have her follow in her father's footsteps...
13) Captain Phillips
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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Series
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English
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Showcasing 52 Essential films from the silent era through the 1980s, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances, dazzling musical numbers, and bold directorial visions that mark the greatest moments in film history.
Since its inception on Turner Classic Movies in 2001, The Essentials has become the ultimate series for movie lovers to expand their knowledge of must-see cinema and discover or revisit landmark films...
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English
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"Man, I believe the older generation doesn't want the younger generation have any fun," complained one Arizona high school student in the midst of what has often been called "The Fabulous Fifties." For the first time in history, thanks to a booming post-war economy and an emerging middle class, teenagers had money to spend. They developed their own culture, language and fashion and by 1957 it was their music coming out of the radios and the jukeboxes,...
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Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
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Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes its better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back he playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
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It wasn't the first or last of the disaster pictures, but it was the best of them all, yet its producer had no way of knowing that his career would never again reach those heights.The Towering Inferno (1974) was the crowning achievement of über-producer Irwin Allen, the self-proclaimed "Master of disaster." Crafted from two best-selling books and with a budget-busting cast headed by two mega-stars, it took two studios to bring it to the screen.In...
18) Crashed
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Series
Junior Bender mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Junior Bender is a burglar with a magic touch. Since he first started breaking into houses when he was fourteen years old, he's never once been caught. But now Junior is being blackmailed by Trey Annunziato, one of the most powerful crime bosses in LA, into taking on a new freelance job. Junior is to act as a private investigator on the set of the porn movie Trey's producing, which someone keeps sabotaging. If Junior can't keep the movie on track,...
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English
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Meet some of today's leading filmmakers as they share their career journeys. Find out how they tackle challenges and solve problems as you strategize with adding and subtracting mixed numbers. Before you see anything on the big screen, discover the big dreams of some master storytellers-filmmakers. By integrating math and literacy skills, this high-interest math reader makes learning math fun and easy as students are engaged in reading about famous...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review).
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter,...
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered old judge wants only to retire in peace. But his life is upended when his sixteen-year-old orphaned granddaughter,...
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