The Great Gatsby
"An aspiring writer falls under the spell of an aloof millionaire with designs for the young scribe's unhappily married cousin in director Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 832
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: man-woman relationships, upper class, man-woman relationship, love stories, long island (n.y.), wealth, rich, traffic accidents, married women, first loves, rich people, mistresses, closed caption video recordings, film adaptations, closed captioning, love, audiobook, compact discs, audiobooks, films for the hearing impaired, fitzgerald, f. scott, gatsby, jay (fictional), english literature, jazz era, 1920s, wives, electronic books, psychological fiction, love stories, electronic books, romance fiction, gatsby, jay, buchanan, daisy, nineteen twenties, revenge
The Basketball Diaries
Today Jim Carroll is a renowned poet and rock performer. But in the mid 1960s, during his coming of age from twelve to fifteen, he was a rebellious teenager, making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City.
920
year: 1995
copies: 5
call number/section: 920
lexile:
subjects: carroll, jim, poets, american, entertainers, american poets, teenage rebellion, sports - basketball, new york city (streets), jim carroll (1951-)
Gangs Of New York
In 1863, a man returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer and gang rival.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: gangs, immigrants, revenge, video recordings for the hearing impaired, five points (new york, n.y.)
The Aviator
Depicts the life of Howard Hughes - billionaire, industrialist, movie producer, inventor, aviator - and the love affairs, Hollywood stardom, corporate battles and brilliant aeronautical invention that defined him from the mid-1920s through the 1940s.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: hughes, howard, air pilots, motion picture producers and directors, inventors, billionaires, man-woman relationships
The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, devotes himself to reclaiming the affections of Daisy Buchanan, a young woman he met before acquiring his fortune who has since married an extremely wealthy, but brutal man.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Blood Diamond
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: diamond industry and trade, diamond miners, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, sierra leone, smugglers, fishers, diamonds, draft, videodiscs
Romeo + Juliet
A twentieth-century adaptation of Shakespeare's classic drama, set in Verona Beach, in which two teens from feuding families fall in love and secretly marry, setting tragic events into motion.
822.33
year: 2013
copies: 13
call number/section: 822.33
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The Departed
In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: organized crime, organized crime investigation, police, undercover operations, criminal behavior, infiltration (military science), criminal psychology, closed caption video recordings, video recordings for the hearing impaired, south boston (boston, mass.)
Catch Me If You Can
Former con man Frank Abagnale, an authority on financial foul play, tells stories of the adventures he had while living the high life as a criminal.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: abagnale, frank w., impostors and imposture, swindlers and swindling, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings
The Man In The Iron Mask
As the French people die of starvation, King Louis XIV continues to live a life of luxury--until Musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis reunite with plans to free the Man in the Iron Mask, the one man who holds the key to setting things right in the kingdom.
FIC
year:
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: man in the iron mask, video recordings for the hearing impaired, closed caption video recordings, dvds, france