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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, Samuel Clemens, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Classics-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original classic. These classics...
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
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1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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The limping man: An ex G.I. returns to England to look up a wartime girlfriend and rekindle their romance. He soon realizes his ex-girlfriend has become involved with racketeers but before he can untangle her mess, he helps the local police track down a deadly sniper. The scar: When a crooked gambler seeks to hide from a rival mobster, he hatches a plot to take the place of a psychiatrist that he's a dead-ringer for. But it's not long before the good...
5) Enemy
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2014
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1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Adam Bell, a glum, disheveled history professor who seems disinterested even in his beautiful girlfriend Mary. Watching a movie on the recommendation of a colleague, Adam spots his double; a bit-part actor named Anthony St. Clair, and decides to track him down. The identical men meet and their lives become bizarrely and irrevocably intertwined.
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Lotus Lane volume 3
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Lulu, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves all things sparkly and glamorous, so when she hears about a Penelope Glitter look-alike contest she is determined to enter and win--and she is not going to let the still-unresolved problems with neighbor Mika get in the way.
7) Enemy
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A solitary college professor discovers that he looks exactly like an actor he sees in a film and sets out to meet him.
8) Suzhou River
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Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 blu-ray (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After serving time in prison on suspicion of murdering a young woman he kidnapped for ransom, Marda, a motorcycle courier in Shanghai, meets MeiMei, who may or may not be the young woman's alter ego.
9) Shadow man
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 10
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
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326 p. ; 24 cm.
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When a local prosecutor is killed by a sniper while dining at an exclusive Granite Creek, Colorado, restaurant, a nearby witness who claims that the bullet had been intended for him hires Charlie Moon to uncover the truth.
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BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
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2 videodiscs (197 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'"--Container.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
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1 videodisc (ca. 126 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
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"An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
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1 DVD (201 min.) : sd., b&w (1937), col. (1952) ; 4 3/4 in.
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He has the appearance and manner of the king, yet he's really a lookalike ... and on his shoulders rests all hope of foiling a blackguard's plot to usurp the throne. Adventure, pageantry and royal intrigue are forged at sword point.
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
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834 p. ; 22 cm.
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Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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