Robert Sean Leonard
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English
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American Classics - Fiction
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls'...
3) Prey
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English
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles-micro-robots-has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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English
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Framingham - Banned Books
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Wayland Library Staff Picks - Classics
Framingham 2024 Reading Bingo Suggestions
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Wayland Library Staff Picks - Classics
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"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
For generations, Welton Academy students have been groomed to live lives of conformity and tradition, until new professor John Keating inspires them to think for themselves, live life to the fullest, and 'Carpe Diem.' This unconventional approach awakens the spirits of the students, but draws the wrath of a disapproving faculty when an unexpected tragedy strikes the school. Featuring new interview footage with director Peter Weir, Ethan Hawke, Robert...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The history of the American whaling industry, from its 17th-century origins in drift and shore whaling off the coast of New England and Cape Cod, through the golden age of deep ocean whaling, and on to its demise in the decades following the American Civil War.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Red Tent and Day After Night, comes an unforgettable novel about family ties and values, friendship and feminism told through the eyes of a young Jewish woman growing up in Boston in the early twentieth century. Addie Baum is The Boston Girl, born in 1900 to immigrant parents who were unprepared for and suspicious of America and its effect on their three daughters. Growing up in the North End, then...
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Applewhites volume 1
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English
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Will anyone take on Jake Semple? Jake Semple is notorious. Rumor has it he burned down his old school and got kicked out of every school in his home state. Only one place will take him now, and that's a home school run by the Applewhites, a chaotic and hilarious family of artists. The only one who doesn't fit the Applewhite mold is E.D. -- a smart, sensible girl who immediately clashes with the unruly Jake. Jake thinks surviving this one will be a...
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever.
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English
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"Margaret Atwood has established herself as a beloved cultural icon and one of the most visionary and canonical authors of her generation. In this collection comprised of fifteen extraordinary stories--some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine--Atwood speaks to our times with her characteristic wit and intellect. Of special significance are the seven works revolving around the long-term married couple Tig and Nell....
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot--and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.)....
Publisher
Universal Studio Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
He's sarcastic, incorrigible, bitter, and in a relationship? Dr. Gregory House has spent his career taking on seemingly hopeless cases, but when his rapport with Dr. Lisa Cuddy changes, he finds himself facing new, and very different, challenges. His team at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital also continues to blaze trails as they investigate baffling medical cases involving a religious zealot, a professional bull rider, and possibly even smallpox....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Gregory House still has the most unapologetically prickly bedside manner ever, but his genius for solving the medical mysteries other practitioners can't has earned him the respect of his team. House's unpredictable cases, from killer germs to killer secrets, strain his already tenuous relationship with his co-workers and put his own health at risk.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Reunite with the perplexing and prickly Dr. Gregory House as he tackles impossible cases while putting a new staff of potential team members through the medical wringer with his trademark sarcasm and irreverent bedside manner.
19) Safe passage
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Recently estranged from her husband, a mother of seven sons is poised to pursue a whole new way of life when tragedy strikes.
20) Swing kids
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two friends in Nazi Germany must choose between their individual freedom or loyalty to the murderous Third Reich.