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1) The tempest
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife. It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
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"[This book] ... begins literally half an hour before [the author's release from prison] on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's ... [maximum security prisons]. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation...
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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
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After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit the road, battling the supernatural wherever they go. They...
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Tree Hill is a small town. Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott have the same father, but live two very different lives. Nathan is the golden boy, Lucas the abandoned illegitimate son. They are both on the same high school basketball team. Chronicles the heartbreak, challenges, lies and loves that erupt from the fateful new relationship between Lucas and Nathan. Given their pasts, the boys would have a hard enough time working together. Add in the...
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"500 years after the havoc in heaven, Xuanzang, the Tang Priest, is appointed by the Buddha to go to the West to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. By accident, Xuanzang undoes the Buddha's spell on Sun Wukong, the Monkey King. Wukong is brought under control by a gold hoop given by the Merry Goddess. He has no choice but to accept the mission to escort Xuanzang to the West. Despite his reluctance, Wukong cuts paths all the way and dutifully helps to...
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Olivia returns home, her health restored. Ben and Cindy welcome another Walton into the world. Cousin Rose and her grandchildren fill empty rooms in the Walton home. Mary Ellen and Erin challenge scoffing men in a horse race. Jim-Bob graduates from high school and makes a decision that fills the family with profound pride.
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