James Marsters
1) New Life
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Ben met Ava at age seven standing in his driveway. As the two journey together through the seasons of life, a tragedy occurs that leaves their entire future in jeopardy.
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First performed in 1773, "She Stoops to Conquer" is the timeless comedic drama by Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. The play depicts the story of Charles Marlow, a wealthy young man who is promised in marriage to a woman, Kate Hardcastle that he has never met. While he is eager to meet her and is travelling to her home with his friend, George Hastings, Charles is quite shy in the company of women of wealth. He prefers those of a lower class and...
3) Storm front
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Dresden files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files series, Harry Dresden’s investigation of a grisly double murder pulls him into the darkest depths of magical Chicago…
As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with...
As a professional wizard, Harry Dresden knows firsthand that the “everyday” world is actually full of strange and magical things—and most of them don’t play well with humans. And those that do enjoy playing with...
4) Salome
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When the prophet Jokanaan is brought to the attention of the princess Salomé, he rebukes her interest, which causes her to make a brutal declaration.
Oscar Wilde's one-act tragedy explores the repercussions of her horrifying decision.
Originally composed in French in 1892, Salomé is a controversial tale full of cruelty and retribution. Wilde expands on the Biblical story of John the Baptist, whom was captured and beheaded by Herod Antipas....
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Dresden files volume 12
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English
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Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the vampiric Red Court, discovers the secret being kept by Harry Dresden's ex-lover, Susan Rodriguez, leaving Harry with no choice but to tap into his own dark power and fight to save the world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Warriors Kaleb and Aya will stop at nothing to destroy their competition. But when Kaleb finds his fate entwined with that of Mallory, a seventeen-year-old human girl, he can't seem to separate the vicious Carnival contest he's entered from his sudden devotion to her. He and Aya may be prizefighters from the otherworldly Untamed City, but his strange, obsessive connection makes staying away from the witch-ruled human world, and Mallory, harder every...
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Dresden files volume 8
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English
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The only wizard in the Chicago phone book, Harry is given the task of investigating rumors of black magic in the Windy City, while, at the same time, searching for some malevolent entities that feed on fear who have been set loose on Chicago.
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Dresden files volume 7
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English
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The wildest, strangest, best Dresden adventure to date ...
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Dresden files volume 11
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English
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Accused of treason against the Wizards of the White Council, Warden Morgan goes in search of Harry Dresden in a desperate attempt to clear his name and stop the deadly punishment from taking place.
10) Lord of Shadows
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Dark artifices volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Audio
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 34
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A #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller
Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare's Lord of Shadows, the bestselling sequel to Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.
Emma Carstairs has just learned that the love she shares with her warrior partner and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn't just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She...
Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare's Lord of Shadows, the bestselling sequel to Lady Midnight. Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.
Emma Carstairs has just learned that the love she shares with her warrior partner and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn't just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She...
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Dresden files volume 14
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Acclaimed author Jim Butcher is famous for his wildly popular Dresden Files books. In Cold Days, Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden, is brought back to life to serve as Winter Knight - answerable to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. And his latest assignment seems impossible: to kill an immortal. Harry must escape his eternal subservience before countless innocents lose their lives - and before Harry loses his very soul.
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Jack Worthington is an upstanding gentleman in Victorian society. He just has one secret-he tells everyone that he has a brother named Earnest, when, in reality, Earnest is his alter ego. This allows him a certain duality; he can go out and party as Earnest, but have a sterling reputation as Jack. However, he must merge the two when Jack discovers that his lover, Gwendolyn, will only marry a man named Earnest. Meanwhile, Algernon, a family friend,...
13) White Night
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Dresden files volume 9
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English
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From #1 New York Times best-selling author Jim Butcher finds magical detective Harry Dresden investigating the killings of minor wizards in Chicago. Most disturbing for Harry, his own brother is a prime suspect. "Butcher puts the characters in a lot of danger, creates appalling moral choices for them, and spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally charged setting."-Booklist, starred review
14) Blood Rites
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Dresden files volume 6
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English
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Book six of the Dresden Files continues the epic saga.
15) Side Jobs
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The short works from Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times best-selling Dresden Files series are collected for the first time in Side Jobs. Ranging from laugh-out-loud to deadly serious, these tales will satisfy longtime fans of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, and win him new devotees. Also included is a brand-new novella that picks up right where the novel Changes left off.
16) Death Masks
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Dresden files volume 5
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English
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Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy that business is pretty good for a change. But he also knows that whenever things are going good, the only way left for them to go is bad. Way bad. Recent examples: A duel with the lethal champion of the Red Court, who must kill Harry to end the war between vampires and wizards . Hit men using Harry for target practice . The missing Shroud of Turin-and the possible involvement...
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Four classic comedies from one of the greatest playwrights in Western literature: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. Plus a masterful dramatization of Wilde's chilling novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey. Starring James Marsters, Jacqueline Bisset, Alfred Molina, Eric Stoltz, Roger Rees, and many more.
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Infamously known as the cursed Scottish play, Macbeth is perhaps Shakespeare's darkest tragedy. When General Macbeth is foretold by three witches that he will one day be King of Scotland, Lady Macbeth convinces him to get rid of anyone who could stand in his way – including committing regicide. As Macbeth ascends to the throne through bloody murder, he becomes a tyrant consumed by fear and paranoia. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring...
19) Summer Knight
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Dresden files volume 4
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Buzzy Multimedia
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English
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Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden is a very powerful wizard and a dedicated private eye. He is also a wise cracking trouble magnet.
Fueled by a tempest of guilt, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, bad temper and frankly awful personal grooming. Harry is hurtling toward oblivion. According to Harry that is nobody's business but his own.
The Winter Queen of Faerie manipulates him into accepting a case to solve a murder and stop a war between
...20) Grave peril
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Dresden files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Called to Cook County hospital to deal with an enraged ghost, Harry Dresden, Chicago's resident wizard, is puzzled and disturbed not by the ghost's wrath but by the fact that someone had cast a torture spell on it, goading it into action. Harry's disturbance increases when he discovers that the same spell has been cast on one of his friends. Harry begins to realize that he and his friends may be targets of a vengeful spirit, and as he desperately...