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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
Español
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Jay, Kelvin y Cia forman Las Garrapatas Lunares (The Lunar Ticks), una banda dedicada, convencidos de que sólo hay un camino a la cima. Tienen la esperanza de ganar la próxima batalla de las bandas en las que el primer premio es de un día completo en un estudio de grabación. Van en contra de Aturdimiento Indigo (Indigo Daze), una banda de otra escuela, Jay se enamora de Rowan, líder de la otra banda. Cuando la guitarra de Rowan es destrozada...
42) Rock Star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Struggling at home and at school, Duncan decides to try out for a local rock band. He plays the bass in the school orchestra, but it is a long way from band camp to rock star. Joining a heavy-metal band, he tries to fit in, dumping his old friends and trying to walk the walk. When his dad's new girlfriend starts to teach him about real rock music and introduces him to her musician brother, Duncan discovers that there is more to being a guitar hero...
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Language
English
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2022 Atlantean Award, Robert E. Howard Foundation You may not know the name Robert E. Howard, but you probably know his work. His most famous creation, Conan the Barbarian, is an icon of popular culture. In hundreds of tales detailing the exploits of Conan, King Kull, and others, Howard helped to invent the sword and sorcery genre. Todd B. Vick delves into newly available archives and probes Howard’s relationships, particularly with schoolteacher...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Documentaries play a vital role in our world. They educate, inform, and inspire. These films promote awareness of ongoing problems and issues. Explore how filmmakers use documentaries to appeal to audiences and bring attention to important issues around the world. This nonfiction book includes important text features such as a glossary, index, and table of contents to engage students in reading as they build their comprehension, vocabulary, and literacy...
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English
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"In this deeply personal memoir, the ultimate It Girl shares, for the first time, the hidden history that traumatized and defined her and how she rose above a series of heart-wrenching challenges to find healing, lasting love, and a life of meaning and purpose"--
47) Thunderbowl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jeremy's band is hot-really hot. Thunderbowl is on the way up and they have had their first big break-a long-term gig at a local bar. The only problem is that while Jeremy should be doing his homework and keeping up in school, he is spending most nights in a rowdy club, trying to keep the band together while his life is falling apart. Trying to balance his dreams of success with the hard realities of the music business, Jeremy is forced to make some...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
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"The best-selling author of Jim Henson: The Biography traces the story of the man behind such blockbuster franchises as Star Wars and Indiana Jones, offering insight into the challenges he overcame and his influential legacy,"--NoveList.
49) Hamlet
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (192 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A film of the ground-breaking Royal Exchange Theater production of Hamlet, with renowned British actress Maxine Peake in the title role. *"Peake's delicate ferocity, her particular mixture of concentration and lightness, ensure that you to follow her whenever she appears." - Susannah Clapp, **The Guardian***
50) King Lear
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (167 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Yury Butusov's brilliant, award-winning staging of KING LEAR tells us a story in which the collapse of a family, the collapse of a country, and the collapse of an individual are all connected to each other. In Shakespeare's classic work, Lear imagined himself to be God's equal - and so he divided his kingdom between his daughters just to see what would happen. Featuring four time Golden Mask Award-winning actor Konstantin Raikin as Lear.
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (249 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Timofey Kulyabin, the 32 year old wunderkind artistic director of the Red Torch Theatre in Novosibirsk, has taken Anton Chekhov’s classic work and reinvented it as an epic parable about finding harmony through suffering. The entire cast, save for one, communicate throughout the performance solely in sign language. Like a score, every scene is composed with sounds and noises. You can hear the wind whistling around the house, shrieking migratory birds,...
Publisher
The Wooster Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte, TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (Phèdre) is The Wooster Group's **OBIE**-winning production of Paul Schmidt's version of Racine's Phèdre, re-set in a mobile modernist landscape of sliding plexiglass panels, omnipresent monitors, and hidden cameras. Winner of 2002 **OBIE** and **BESSIE** awards for Best Production and Best Performer (Kate Valk)! *An "exhilarating dissection of Racine’s tragedy"* - **The New York Times**
53) Onegin
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (161 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Timofey Kulyabin's Golden Mask Award winning ONEGIN removes all expectations of Pushkin's novel in verse and places you in today's world, immersed in the inner thoughts, hopes, despairs, passions and disappointments that drift in, through and around the 4 central figures, Onegin, Tatiana, Olga and Lensky. The work is a hypnotic, quiet love story that perfectly conveys the attitude of the great poet and how very much his masterwork still resonates...
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (168 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Russian
Description
Rimas Tuminas' adaptation of two novels by Grigory Kanovich, is a dreamy, ruminative, comedic road trip, centering around the parlous fortunes of Eastern European Jews at the start of the 20th century. A period piece that carries a modern conscious, Smile Upon Us, is a Becket-like "Waiting for Jehovah" featuring three towering figures from the Russian stage, Viktor Sukhorukov, Aleksei Guskov and Vladimir Simonov.
55) Anna Karenina
Publisher
Stage Russia
Language
Russian
Description
A spectacular, breathtaking, high-tech musical production based on the masterpiece by Leo Tolstoy. The dramatic and tumultuous love story between the married ANNA KARENINA and a dashing military officer, Alexey Vronsky, takes place amidst the glitter and luxury of the Russian nobility in the second half of the 19th century. The musical’s characters struggle with overwhelming of love and betrayal, passion and duty, hope and desperation. Although...
Publisher
Stadium Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Classic performances from America’s top comics….before any of us knew who they were. With nothing more than a punch line and a dream, these (then) struggling young artists transformed themselves into comedy legends. Here is a rare opportunity to see some of the world’s greatest African American stars perform the routines that would someday make them Kings of Comedy.
Publisher
Unity Productions Foundation
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY features live stand-up performances by Azhar Usman, Preacher Moss and Mohammed Amer as well as behind the scenes sequences highlighting the individual comedians. The trio poke fun at Muslims and non-Muslims alike and their comedic material plays with stereotypes to invite people to think outside of their fixed cultural perceptions.
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (11 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A reflexive, first-person narrative by Captain Don Leslie, a sideshow sword-swallower, human blockhead, tattooed man, and fire eater. Recounting everything from childhood feelings of being an “oddball” to his injuries as a sword-swallower, Captain Don spews flames, lights his tongue on fire, and sings about the circus and tattooing.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A feature-length documentary, exploring the growing musical and social phenomenon of chanting, MANTRA: SOUNDS INTO SILENCE shares the stories of people who are finding healing and a sense of inner peace by singing mantras together. It’s a film about spirituality not religion, about people reconnecting with their true selves and with others. The film shows that chanting can have beneficial effects on the brain and in turn, on practitioners’ well-being....
60) Yes please
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English
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In Amy Poehler€s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy€s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.
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