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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, is arrested in Ephesus. Aegeon tells Solinus, the Duke of Ephesus, his tale: he was shipwrecked many years ago while sailing with his wife, Aemilia, and two pairs of identical twins--their twin sons, both named Antipholus, and twin servants, both named Dromio. In the course of the storm, his wife, one of their sons, and one their servants, were lost. At eighteen, Aegeon had allowed the remaining Antipholus and Dromio...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue - deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks - as everyone is drawn into the hilarious confusion." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers...
3) The Majestic
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
An amnesiac settles in a small town where he is mistaken for a long lost local hero.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
In Chicago, a subway employee is in love with a stranger she only sees from a distance. But when she rescues him from a mugging in which he is knocked into a coma, his family mistakes her for his fiancee. When she falls for his charming brother, the mix-up escalates.
8) Unstoppable
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Dean Cage is a former Special Ops agent. Now he is a marked man who becomes the victim of mistaken identity. Injected with a powerful hallucinogenic drug that is supposed to force him to tell secrets he doesn't have to give, Cage races against time to clear his name and find an antidote that will save his life. Unfortunately, the only thing that can save him is some thing he doesn't want to trust: his own mind.
9) Wicker Park
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life whom walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa whom, unknown beknownst to Matthew, is an actress named Alex, who may hold the key to Lisa's...
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], ©1949
Language
English
Description
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him. Zaniness ensues, focused on Kayes performing talents rather than the town's corruption.
11) The 39 steps
Publisher
Cobra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Language
English
Description
Richard Hannay is on vacation in London when he mets a mysterious woman who tells him of a spy ring she is trying to crack. She doesn't know the identity of the master spy, but she is privy to a few revealing details. Later, she is murdered before Hannay can learn anything more. Accussed of her murder and with his life now in danger, Hannay must elude police while he attempts to uncover the spies.
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English
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Roger Thornhill is a New York advertising executive who is kidnapped by a gang of spies led by Philip Vandamm, who believes Thornhill is CIA agent George Kaplan. Thornhill escapes, but must find Kaplan in order to clear himself of a murder that Kaplan is accused of committing. Following Kaplan to Chicago as a fugitive from justice, Thornhill is helped by beautiful Eve Kendall. In Chicago, she delivers a message to Kaplan that almost costs Thornhill...
13) Along came Jones
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Along came Jones: Cowboy Melody Jones rides into town looking for work and is mistaken for the evil desperado Monte Jarrad. Jones lets all the special treatment go to his head until the real outlaw shows up looking for him.
Fury at showdown: A rancher trying to overcome his past as a notorious gunfighter is forced into violent retribution when his brother is killed by crooks who are after his property.
15) The man
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mistaken identity leads special agent Derrick Vann to a man he feels has something to do with the death of his partner, but in truth is a dental supply salesmen with a knack for getting in the agent's way.
16) Double identity
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When an American doctor in Chechnya helps a woman in distress, he is mistaken as a spy by a local gangster.
17) Monte Carlo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
While on vacation in Paris with her best friend Emma and stepsister Meg, high school graduate Grace is mistaken for a British heiress and the three girls are whisked away to Monte Carlo for a glamorous weekend.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Hindi
Description
Sidhu longs to escape his dreary existence as a cook in Chandni Chowk when two strangers, thinking Sidhu is a famous martial artist, claim him to be the reincarnation of a war hero, and ask him to come back with them to their village in China to confront a deadly assassin.