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The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A redemptive movie about a young man, the son of a preacher, who rejects his father's desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It's a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Contains the text of Shakespeare's comedy about identical twin brothers, both named Antipholus, who set off a wave of confusion when they arrive in the same town after a lifetime apart, bringing with them identical twin servants, both named Dromios; and includes scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, and a critical essay.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming "Count Malvolio" only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful...
5) The twin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Every parent's worst nightmare is just the beginning for Rachel in the aftermath of a tragic accident where one of her twin sons was killed. When she and her husband Anthony decide to move to the other side of the world to focus on their surviving twin son Elliot, what begins as a time of healing and isolation in the Scandinavian countryside turns into a desperate battle for the very soul of their son as an entity claiming to be his dead twin brother...
Pub. Date
[c2005]
Description
"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
Presents the text of three William Shakespeare comedies--"The Taming of the Shrew," in which a man sets out to tame his shrewish wife; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," where love, magic, and transformation occur; and "Twelfth Night," in which Viola, separated from her twin, Sebastian, after a shipwreck and convinced he has died, disguises herself as a page in the home of the duke and inadvertently becomes the love interest of the countess.
9) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
10) The parent trap
Description
An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents. Bonus features: a gag reel, the making of the movie, visual effects, and commentary.
11) 8 horror movies
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Vanished: The mother of a murdered boy kidnaps and tortures the woman she feels is responsible for the crime.
Sparrow: A ranger with a machete takes out his aggression on a group of campers vacationing in his woods.
Nobody can cool: Susan and David believe they are about to spend a quiet weekend away, but end up as hostages in their cabin instead.
Bad behavior: Zoe is an experienced babysitter, new to this family, but not to the trade. When it...
Pub. Date
©2005, ©1989.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Louise Bradshaw dreams of the time when she can leave her isolated Chesapeake Bay fishing community and escape the shadow of her beautiful, confident and talented sister Caroline. It takes a special friendship and the birth of a new set of twins on the island to help Louise move beyond jealousy and frustration to discover her own talents and goals.
16) Bad company
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
CIA agents Oakes and Pope are trying to purchase a suitcase-sized nuclear bomb from a Russian black marketer. Just as the partners discover that another bidder exists, they are ambushed and Pope is killed trying to protect Oakes. Now Oakes needs to recruit Pope's long lost twin brother, Jake, so that the deal can commence in ten days time. Offered a sizable payday, Jake agrees to undergo the vigorous training to impersonate his brother and helps Oakes...
17) Twins
Pub. Date
c1988
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Description
An ambitious genetic experiment takes the wrong turn when twins - who look nothing alike - are born and then seperataed. Years later, the unlikely siblings meet and the mis-adventures begin.
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Description
On the edge of the Great Valley stands mysterious Saurus Rock and twin Threehorns, Dinah and Dana, have run away to find it. Could the mysterious Longneck named Doc be the famous Lone Dinosaur? To find out, Littlefoot and friends must cross the Great Valley and face a dangerous Sharptooth themselves! Along the way they learn about change, acceptance and responsibility.
19) Seconds apart
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After telekinetic teenage twins involve their classmates in deadly games, a detective tries to stop them before they can kill again.
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Comedy spoof of the Zorro legend focusing on the twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and blade, a broken ankle forces him to step aside and his flamboyantly fashion-conscious twin brother must assume the secret identity of Zorro in the ongoing fight for justice.
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