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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown (albeit under a male pseudonym), her relationship still makes her weak at the knees, and the science fiction romance she's writing on the side, "The Lunar Housewife," is going swimmingly. But when she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats,...
4) Grease
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.
Author
Series
Publisher
Raven Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 301 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a gang member disappears during a huge heist, a violent criminal with a penchant for boiling policemen's heads escapes prison, and an American researcher is found dead in Gosling's department store, three detectives must put their heads together to solve these cases.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend, the kind but impulsive Jacob Hampton, is conscripted to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1940, eighteen-year-old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to be by turns both tedious and terrifying. But after the war has ended, she presumes the events of those years have been relegated to the past forever. Ten years later, now a radio producer at the BBC, Juliet is...
8) Dream town
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
It's the eve of 1953, and Aloysius Archer is in Los Angeles to ring in the New Year with an old friend, aspiring actress Liberty Callahan, when their evening is interrupted by an acquaintance of Callahan's: Eleanor Lamb, a screenwriter in dire straits. After a series of increasingly chilling events--mysterious phone calls, the same blue car loitering outside her house, and a bloddy knife left in her sink--Eleanor fears that her life is in danger,...
9) Fences
Author
Language
English
Description
Wilson tells the story of four generations of black Americans and how they passed on a legacy of morals, mores, attitudes,and patterns through stories with and without music.
10) Elvis
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (159 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
173, 8 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning...
12) Till
Publisher
Orion Releasing LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : digital sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
13) West Side story
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 156 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, from a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Tony Kushner, this musical tells the classic tale of fierce rivalries and young love in 1957 New York City.