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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
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English
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From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride, comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (142 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color))
Language
English
Description
Whoever it was that told you not to talk to strangers needs to have a talk with Emily... Emily the Strange, that is. Emily knows that nothing is better than talking with strangers. In fact, the stranger the better! But that's Emily for you she's the 13-year-old queen of the cultural underground, and she's too busy making up her own rules to follow anyone else's. That's how we've come up with so many insanely inspired ideas for the stories you'll find...
Author
Publisher
CosmicDebris/Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource ([148] pages : illustrations (some color)., comic format)
Language
English
Description
Emily the Strange is not your ordinary 13-year-old girl. She's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon. --Provided by publisher.
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English
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Instead of going to prom, seventeen-year-old Elena Soo wants to spend her time saving the local community center, and she is determined to keep her priorities straight even when her childhood best friend--who is now a K-pop superstar--returns to make goodon their old pact to go to prom together.
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Series
Dexter books volume 5
Language
English
Description
Serial killer Dexter Morgan has always lived by a single golden rule: kill only people who deserve it. But the Miami blood-spatter analyst has just become the daddy of an eight-pound curiosity named Lily Anne--and Dex's dark urges seem to have left him. Has he become a normal overprotective father? But then an eighteen-year-old girl is abducted by a bizarre group of vampires or possibly cannibals. Suddenly, Dexter is back in business.
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (75 pages : chiefly colour illustrations)
Language
English
Description
In order to win a legendary haunted guitar, Emily is determined to create the most rockin' song the world has ever known . . . but can she do it solo? Emily isn't known for playing well with others, but she's going to have to rely on the help of some strangers if she's going to succeed on her musical journey to the true heart of rock 'n' roll! This book collects the three issue miniseries. An Emily the Strange feature film is currently in development....
Author
Series
Emily and the strangers volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume of unnumbered pages : chiefly colour illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Emily-and her new band, the Strangers-won the battle of the bands and received a record contract with Awesomely Awesome Records, but can the girl who just figured out how to get along with her friends manage dealing with a major corporation? And what's the deal with the legions of stray cats around town?Emily the Strange creator Rob Reger re-teams with cowriter Mariah Huehner (True Blood, Angel) and artist Cat Farris (Angry Birds) for a brand-new,...
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In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the "cultural revolution" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex and drugs, and manners and morality. Believing that...
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English
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Over the course of one pivotal year, events that shaped American and world history took place: The North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive. Prague Spring began. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Students protested across the United States and around the world. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago was besieged by riots. Apollo 11 launched. And Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States....
12) Skim
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Skim" (Kimberly Keiko Cameron) is a not-slim would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school. When her classmate Katie is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself, the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. The popular clique stars a club to boost school spirit, but Skim sinks into an ever-deepening depression.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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"Candace Park knows a lot about playing a role. For most of her life, she's been playing the role of the quiet Korean girl who takes all AP classes and plays a classical instrument, keeping her dreams of stardom-and her obsession with SLK, K-pop's top boyband-to herself. She doesn't see how a regular girl like her could possibly become one of those K-pop goddesses she sees on YouTube. Even though she can sing. Like, really sing. So when Candace secretly...
14) Hippie
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated celebration of the 1960s counterculture captures the political fervor, historical events, slogans, sayings, fashions, styles, music, artwork, and other characteristics and personalities that defined the era from 1965 to 1971.
15) Quadrophenia
Series
Criterion collection volume 624
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Director-approved special edition ; widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Jimmy, an angry British youth trying to find himself, and his like-minded rowdy "Mod" friends invade a seaside resort town and become involved in violent street fighting.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
Ronson investigates the strange things we are willing to believe in, from lifelike robots programmed with the personalities of our loved ones to indigo children to hyper successful spiritual healers. He looks at ordinary lives that take on extraordinary perspectives, for instance a pop singer whose greatest passion is the coming alien invasion, and the scientist designated to greet those aliens when they arrive. Ronson throws himself into the stories....
17) Beastly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance, he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
18) Easy rider
Series
Criterion collection volume 545
Language
English
Description
Hippie motorcyclists cross the Southwest and encounter a crazy quilt of good and bad people. An attorney joins their quest for awhile and articulates society's problem with freedom as the two hippies embody it.
19) Head
Series
Criterion collection volume 544
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
[Special] DVD ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscopic satire that is a movie homage, media send-up, concert movie, and antiwar cry all at once.
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