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1) Pygmalion
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English
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One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.
Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...
2) Ugly love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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#1 'New York Times' bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with a new heart-wrenching love story. When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up. He doesn't want love, she...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen is a groundbreaking and thought-provoking masterpiece that challenges societal norms and explores the complex dynamics of marriage and identity. Set in 19th-century Norway, the play revolves around Nora Helmer, a seemingly content wife and mother, and her husband Torvald.
As the plot unfolds, the audience is drawn into a web of secrets, lies, and personal revelations. Nora's journey from a docile, doll-like existence...
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English
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Algernon is a gentlemen from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack, has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on Cicely. Meanwhile, Algernon's cousin, Gwendolyn, arrives for...
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen/full screen.
Language
English
Description
Show boat (1951, 108 min.): When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get...
8) Binding 13
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Series
Boys of Tommen volume 1
Language
English
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He wants to save her. She wants to hide. She's damaged. He's determined. Fate brought them together. Love binds them.
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a women, gain points in a conversation, or beating someone who plays a better game. One of Mr. Potter's pupils is a desperate Henry Palfrey whose every attempt to win the heart of April Smith has been thwarted by the cad Raymond Delauney. Needless to say Mr. Potter's instructions allow Henry to vanquish his...
10) Angel dog
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An uplifting drama with sorrow, sincerity, hope, and humor, a journey of recovery for Jake Bryant, a man who has to learn to love, how to smile, how to live again after he loses everything that matters to him. His inspiration to get off the sofa and go on living comes from somewhere Jake never would have expected: a lovable stray named Cooper.
11) True Heart Susie
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A young girl sells the family cow to anonymously finance her sweetheart's education only to find he's left her for a modern woman.
12) The Spanish Main
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Capt. Laurent Van Horn, a Dutch trader in the Caribbean is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor and sentenced to hang for trespassing. But Van Horn stages a breakout with other unjustly incarcerated prisoners, resurfacing as the rakish Barracuda to command the pirate waterways, rescue fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenge the wrongs done to him.
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"During Sloane Cooper's interview for her dream job as a designer for a top video game company, she somehow promises the all-male panel that she'll remain single and fully dedicated to the work. It's actually fine-- after her last boyfriend cheated on her, she vowed to focus on her career anyway. Enter Charlie, aka Hot Neighbor Guy, a near-stranger who shocks her with the offer of an all-inclusive trip to Turks and Caicos. The catch? Charlie originally...
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia story (1940, 112 min.):A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Bringing up Baby (1938, 102 min.): Crazy comedy about an heiress who is determined to catch a stuffy zoologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention.
Adam's rib (1949, 100 min.): A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In this 1930s screwball comedy lackadaisical lawyer Henry MacMorrow attempts to get the kooky Pemberton family to agree on a large property deal involving part of their estate. Frustrated by the family's scatty entourage which includes a Dali lookalike, an exceedingly precocious child and their whimsical parents, he turns to the beautiful Toni Pemberton, the independently minded daughter of the family, with a fake sob story. The two of them join...
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Thatcher is a young teacher accustomed to high society, so she experiences culture shock when she gets her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley. However, she finds her work fulfilling as she makes her home in Coal Valley. She even finds herself falling for the handsome Constable Jack Thornton. But when circumstances call back to her family's home in the city, she must decide if she wants to remain with them or return to Coal Valley....
Pub. Date
[2018], c2017
Edition
Full screen ed.
Language
English
Description
Molly White runs a successful bridal boot camp, combining fitness with pre-marital counseling to brides and grooms. It is here that she meets the handsome Nick Dyson, who seems to be having doubts about his upcoming marriage. While helping couples start their new lives together, Molly discovers she, too, needs to learn how to forgive her past so she can move forward.
18) Holiday hotline
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After leaving London, Abby connects with an anonymous caller while working at a cooking hotline. The caller is single dad "John," who Abby unknowingly has become smitten with in real life.
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