William Shakespeare
61) Macbeth
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Español
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La tragedia de Macbeth, un violento y sanguinario mapa de la ambicion humana, empieza en el preciso instante en que las hermanas fatidicas le revelan el esplendoroso futuro que le aguarda. Sus palabras parecen un canto de sirena surgido de las profundidades del infierno, una seduccion que cualquier hombre sensato desoiria. Pero cuando se cumple la primera prediccion y el rey Duncan le nombra baron de Caudor para recompensar su inteligencia y destreza...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Mark Haddon's breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter Angelica survives. Philippe's obsession with the girl's safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque as she grows into a beautiful teen. A young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and intuits their secret -- he decides to rescue her,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In R. L. Stine's A Midsummer Night's Scream, the Master of Horror takes on the Master of Theatre! Oh, what fools these actors be! It was a horror movie that turned into real horror--three young actors lost their lives while the camera rolled. Production stopped, and people claimed that the movie was cursed. Sixty years later, new actors are venturing onto the haunted set. In a desperate attempt to revive their failing studio, Claire's dad has green-lit...
65) Juliet's nurse
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English
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A retelling of Shakespeare's tragic romance from the perspective of Juliet's closest caregiver follows the experiences of a grieving mother who becomes a wet nurse to a powerful family's daughter and who learns her employer's darkest secrets as the girl comes of age.
67) Hamlet
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
68) The great night
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English
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On Midsummer Eve 2008, three people, each on the run from a failed relationship, become trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park, the secret home of Titania, Oberon, and their court. On this night, something awful is happening in the faerie kingdom: in a fit of sadness over the end of her marriage, which broke up in the wake of the death of her adopted son, Titania has set loose an ancient menace, and the chaos that ensues will threaten the lives...
70) Henry VI
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English
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“Henry VI, Part 3” (often written as 3 Henry VI) is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1591 and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Whereas “1 Henry VI” deals with the loss of England's French territories and the political machinations leading up to the Wars of the Roses and “2 Henry VI” focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering of his nobles, and the inevitability of armed...
71) Dunbar
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Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
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2017.
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English
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Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions. Now imprisoned in Meadowmeade, an upscale sanatorium in rural England, with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills,...
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Shakespeare for young people volume 5
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Swan Books
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
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An abridged version of Shakespeare's original text, with suggestions for simple staging. Includes parenthetical explanations and descriptions within the text and announcers who summarize deleted passages.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.