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In a small town in 1928, a twelve year-old boy savors the magic of childhood and the wonders of summer.

Young Ren, a twelve-year-old orphan in nineteenth-century New England, is adopted by Benjamin Nab, a con artist who brings Ren into a strange underworld filled with seedy characters, including an assassin that the pair encounters on a mission to procure corpses for a scientist, who informs Ren that he was made for killing.

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; region 1.;Dialogue in English, French, or Spanish with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

Chronicles nine years in the lives of two South African youths-- one black, one white-- as their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.

Antonia works as a servant for her neighbors after her father's death, elopes, and then returns to marry a Bohemian farmer.

"Flaubert's tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman town between duty and desire.

Grendel, the monster, tells his side of the Beowulf story, and compares his values with the chief values of human beings.

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with her sister Cora, whom she has not seen for ten years, where she learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she has something to offer to others as well.

Presents the nineteenth-century short story in which a governess believes her two charges, ten-year-old Miles and eight-year-old Flora, are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants.

Presents a 150th anniversary edition of Henry David Thoreau's 1854 text in which he offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned over the course of two years of solitary living in a cabin on Walden Pond, and includes color photographs of Walden Pond and the surrounding woods.

An English translation of the Greek epic in which Odysseus makes his long and treacherous journey home after the Trojan War, while his son Telemachos and wife Penelope are forced to scheme to protect his throne until his return.

Expands on the story of Anne Frank revealed in her diary by providing details about the family and friends who shaped her life and gave her the strength to endure two years of hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland.

Presents a practical guide that addresses many of the tough issues teens and parents face, and offers advice on how to maintain a positive dialogue that fosters mutual respect.

When the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team is attacked, agent Web London is the sole survivor.