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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 991 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the power of the island to both heal and destroy comes into sharp focus, the lines between good and evil are blurred and loyalties are challenged when the survivors of the crash become tangled within the lives of the Others.
5) Gravity
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
7) Escape Room
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An intriguing invitation brings six strangers together. Initially, they think they have gathered for a highly immersive escape room, but they soon make the sickening discovery that they are pawns in a sadistic game of life and death. Together, they move from one terrifying scenario to the next as they find clues and solve puzzles. But the players soon learn that exposing their darkest secrets may hold the key to survive.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, this series centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting television adaptation.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 426 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
During a twelve-hour period when all crime, including murder, is legal, a group of seemingly unrelated characters cross paths in a city in an altered America. As each character is forced to reckon with their past and plot how to better their futures, they soon discover how far they will go on Purge Night.
10) Ava
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
One cold winter night in Afghanistan is about to get a whole lot worse for Rana Rae, a Gurkha soldier left to guard a British military outpost, when Captain Noah Brandt arrives looking for refuge from a group of rogue special ops and a cell of heavily armed Taliban. The two soldiers must fight for their lives as they attempt to call for backup before the rogue squad, led by the backstabbing Sergeant Bartlett, can hunt them down to retrieve a case...
12) The furies
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Kayla wakes up in the middle of the woods, she soon discovers she and several other women have been kidnapped and are now part of a sadistic game where masked men are hunting them.
13) Abigail
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A heist team is hired by a mysterious fixer to kidnap the daughter of a powerful underworld figure. They must guard the 12-year-old ballerina for one night to net a $50 million ransom. As the captors start to dwindle one by one, the discover to their mounting terror that they're locked inside an isolated mansion with no ordinary little girl." --container.
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As the world teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When a storm cuts them off from the mainland, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear: they are to be executed, one by one.
15) Ad astra
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
16) Seraphim Falls
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War has ended, but ex-Confederate Colonel Carver has one final mission: to kill ex-Union Captain Gideon. Battling the harsh elements as he fights to escape his pursuer, Gideon must do whatever it takes to stay alive...
17) $The tempest
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations.
18) Tenet
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Armed with only one word and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real-time.
19) Rust Creek
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An overachieving college student gets lost on her way to a job interview. A wrong turn leaves her stranded deep in the Kentucky forest. The woman must defend herself against the harsh elements and a band of ruthless outlaws. She is forced into an uneasy alliance with a strange loner who has unknown intentions.
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (578 min) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'The Walking Dead' is a drama where personal struggles are magnified against a backdrop of crises. The series explores how the living are changed by the realization that those who survive can be far more dangerous than the walking dead.
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