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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
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Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Contains gems such as "Job switching" in which Lucy and Ethel do unforgettable battle with a chocolate factory conveyor belt; and "The operetta" in which Lucy's money problems bring down the curtain on her role as "Queen of the gypsies". This collection also includes the groundbreaking "pregnancy shows", including the touching moment at the Tropicana when Lucy breaks the news to Ricky that they are going to have a baby, and "Lucy goes to the hospital"...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people "dreaded scandal more than disease." This is Newland Archer's world as he prepares to marry the beautiful but conventional May Welland. But when the mysterious Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after a disastrous marriage, Archer falls deeply in love...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen and full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his gay neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Series
Language
English
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
6) Café society
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (146 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: a hilarious sequel that brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda come together to take another bite out of the Big Apple and beyond. What happens after you say 'I do?' Life is everything the ladies ever wished it would be, but it wouldn't be Sex in the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls.
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future.
Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs to get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero to her home for Christmas.
It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (680 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucy manages to find trouble in Hollywood, Manhattan, Paris, London, Rome, and everywhere in between. Before leaving Tinseltown, she bags the ultimate souvenir--John Wayne's cement footprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater. On board the train to New York, she can't resist adding a few unscheduled stops, courtesy of the train's emergency brake cord. On the Continent, Lucy's madcap escapades include getting thrown in a Parisian jail, modeling a Frech...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs in 3 separate volumes (DVD) (787 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lucy & Ricky are still happy in New York, but when Ricky is offered a part in a Hollywood film, the Ricardos and the Mertzes head off to California via a cross-country automobile trip. The changes of locale offers new opportunities for Lucy to get in trouble, and a chance for movie stars to guest on the show once the Ricardos make it to Hollywood.
15) Carol
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (118 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless,...
16) Belle Cora
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon her death in 1919, Mrs. Francis Anderson, a wealthy and powerful dowager in San Francisco society, leaves behind a scandalous memoir revealing her former life as a prostitute and madame. Born Arabella Goodwin to a rich and respected abolitionist family in New York City, she is suddenly orphaned at age nine and shipped off with her beloved youngest brother, Lewis, to live with her aunt and uncle on their hardscrabble farm. When her nemesis --...
17) The lonely guy
Publisher
Universal Home Video, Inc
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Larry and Warren try to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple.
18) CBGB
Publisher
Film CBGB, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alan Rickman stars as legendary NYC club owner Hilly Kristal, who during the 1970s, wanted to create a venue for country, bluegrass and blues music (thus the name CBGB). When those acts became difficult to book, he shifted the club's focus to local bands playing original music, launching the careers of Patti Smith, Blondie, the Talking Heads and the Ramones and helping to define New York's punk scene and changing the face of music.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1970s New York, her innocence is seductive. Four decades later, it's a crime. Living peacefully in Vermont, Ryan Flannigan is shocked when a text from her oldest friend alerts her to a devastating news item. A controversial photo of her as a pre-teen has been found in the possession of a wealthy investor recently revealed as a pedophile and a sex trafficker - with an inscription to him from Ryan's mother on the back. Memories crowd in, providing...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (146 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
The fun, the fashion, the friendship: this sequel brings it all back and more as Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda come together to take another bite out of the Big Apple and beyond. What happens after you say 'I do?' Life is everything the ladies ever wished it would be, but it wouldn't be Sex and the City if life didn't hold a few more surprises. After all, sometimes you just have to get away with the girls
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