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The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used.
Pub. Date
[c2005]
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"Parent trap": Susan and Sharon are identical twins that are separated by birth. Once they realize who they are, they make a plan to switch place with the high hopes of getting their parents back together again. "Parent trap II": Now grown up, Sharon is a single mom whose daughter meets Mary and the girls turn into scheming matchmakers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Contains the text of Shakespeare's comedy about identical twin brothers, both named Antipholus, who set off a wave of confusion when they arrive in the same town after a lifetime apart, bringing with them identical twin servants, both named Dromios; and includes scene-by-scene action summaries, full explanatory notes, and a critical essay.
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Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy devises a romantic plot around separated twins, misplaced passions, and mistaken identity. Juxtaposed to it is the satirical story of a self-deluded steward who dreams of becoming "Count Malvolio" only to receive his comeuppance at the hands of the merrymakers he wishes to suppress. The two plots combine to create a farce touched with melancholy, mixed throughout with seductively beautiful...
6) Hereafter
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.
7) Mrs. Miracle
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When her acting career does not take off, but her sister does with her fiance, Reba returns home to become a preschool teacher, and director of the Christmas pageant. After his wife dies, widower Seth Webster moves to town with his rambunctious twin boys. Mrs. Merkle, who is dubbed 'Mrs. Miracle' by the boys, is hired as a nanny and soon has the boys behaving nicely. It isn't long before Mrs. Miracle is sowing the seeds of love for Reba and Seth too....
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Comedy spoof of the Zorro legend focusing on the twin sons of the legendary Zorro. Soon after dashing Don Diego Vega inherits his father's famous sword and blade, a broken ankle forces him to step aside and his flamboyantly fashion-conscious twin brother must assume the secret identity of Zorro in the ongoing fight for justice.
12) Stuck on you
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Conjoined twins, Bob and Walt, are happy living their lives together and manage just fine, playing hockey, working at the diner, and cruising for babes, until one decides he wants to be an actor and the other has stage fright and panic attacks.
13) The twin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Every parent's worst nightmare is just the beginning for Rachel in the aftermath of a tragic accident where one of her twin sons was killed. When she and her husband Anthony decide to move to the other side of the world to focus on their surviving twin son Elliot, what begins as a time of healing and isolation in the Scandinavian countryside turns into a desperate battle for the very soul of their son as an entity claiming to be his dead twin brother...
14) Jack and Jill
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Family guy Jack Sadelstein prepares for the annual event he dreads: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister, the needy and passive-aggressive Jill, who then refuses to leave.
"Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the holiday visit of his identical twin sister, Jill"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
A tour-de-force performance from Mark Ruffalo leads this family saga, which follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six-episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb's New York Times bestseller and award-winning book, I Know This Much Is True.
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2009
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Presents the text of three William Shakespeare comedies--"The Taming of the Shrew," in which a man sets out to tame his shrewish wife; "A Midsummer Night's Dream," where love, magic, and transformation occur; and "Twelfth Night," in which Viola, separated from her twin, Sebastian, after a shipwreck and convinced he has died, disguises herself as a page in the home of the duke and inadvertently becomes the love interest of the countess.
Pub. Date
[2013]
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Recently orphaned teen Jordan is sent to live with her aunt and uncle in the tiny town of Silver Falls. Feeling out of sorts and living with family that doesn't understand her, Jordan befriends a local boy who tells her that the town has been plagued by a series of grisly deaths and hauntings. Local legends believe that tormented twin sisters are responsible for the otherworldly sightings. After finding a ring at Silver Falls, Jordan herself becomes...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Cyborg (1989, 86 min.): Deteriorating from social anarchy and a deadly plague, twenty-first-century America has descended into a seething, barbaric nightmare and only the awesome fighting skills of saber-wielding hero Gibson Rickenbacker can save what remains of civilization.
Death warrant (1990, 89 min.): A police detective poses as a prisoner at Harrison Penitentiary to investigate a series of inmate murder. But when he unearths the shocking secret...
19) 8 horror movies
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Vanished: The mother of a murdered boy kidnaps and tortures the woman she feels is responsible for the crime.
Sparrow: A ranger with a machete takes out his aggression on a group of campers vacationing in his woods.
Nobody can cool: Susan and David believe they are about to spend a quiet weekend away, but end up as hostages in their cabin instead.
Bad behavior: Zoe is an experienced babysitter, new to this family, but not to the trade. When it...
20) The pretty one
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Laurel has always been the odd wallflower, choosing to live at home with her father, while her glamorous identical twin, Audrey, possesses the confidence and appeal to succeed in the big city. When tragedy strikes and Laurel is mistaken for her twin sister, she makes the impulsive decision to assume her sister's identity and become The Pretty One. As she eases into her new, independent existence, Laurel discovers that she's capable of accomplishments...
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