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1) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book presents a historical overview of The Tempest in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading directors - Peter Brook, Sam Mendes and Rupert Goold - so that we may get a sense of the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible, a variety that gives Shakespeare his unique capacity to be reinvented and made 'our contemporary' four centuries after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As You Like It (1599) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. As You Like It was probably inspired by Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd, Euphues Golden Legacie (1587), a story based on "The Tale of Gamelyn," a Middle English romance. For its deconstruction of traditional gender roles and depiction of homoeroticism, As You Like It remains an important and frequently performed play in Shakespeare's oeuvre. "All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely...
3) Cymbeline
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Performed as early as 1611 and published in the "First Folio" in 1623, Shakespeare's "Cymbeline" weaves an elaborate tale of palatial envy and power in Ancient Britain. Cymbeline, King of Britain, commands that his lovely young daughter Imogen marry Cloten, the violent and callous son of the current Queen by her former husband. With her heart already promised to the poor yet heroic Posthumus, Imogen refuses. Disgusted at the prospect of his daughter...
4) King Lear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
5) Priceless
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A man who finds himself unable to hold down a job is asked to drive a truck across the country, and when he finds out what he is delivering he is faced with a life-changing choice.
8) The shack
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After the presumed death of his daughter, a man receives a letter he suspects is from God, telling him to return to the Shack where his daughter may have been murdered.
9) Lake effects
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A Los Angeles lawyer returns home to the small lakeside town where she grew up, and discovers what it means to be a family when her father dies.
11) Traded
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A father risks his reputation as being the fastest gunman in the West when he leaves his ranch for Dodge City to save his daughter from an old enemy.
12) The hero
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
13) Why him?
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A holiday gathering goes awry when a man finds out that his daughter is planning to get engaged to her wealthy boyfriend.
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt father/daughter tale inspired by the heart-wrenching true story. When Nicki discovers two horses stranded deep in the snow, she is determined to get them off the mountain...somehow. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path of deep snow, inspiring first her father, Matt, and then the entire community to band together in the spirit of Christmas.
15) The prince
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A retired assassin must confront his former rival in order to save his daughter after she is kidnapped.
16) Southpaw
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After a personal tragedy results in the loss of his home, daughter, and self-esteem, boxer Billy Hope fights to regain his life and the championship.
17) The descendants
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.
18) Blood father
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An ex-con tries to protect his estranged daughter from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Having lost his wife in a car accident that left him with a brain damage and subsequent mental problems, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist struggles to keep custody of his young daughter, who many years later faces emotional problems of her own.
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