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"Cecily Cardew and Gwendolen Fairfax are both in love with the same mythical suitor. Jack Worthing has wooed Gwendolen as Earnest, while Algernon has also posed as Earnest to win the heart of Jack's ward, Cecily. When all four arrive at Jack's country home on the same weekend--the "rivals" to fight for Earnest's undivided attention and the "Earnests" to claim their beloveds--pandemonium breaks loose"--Page 4 of cover.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of...
5) The rider
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
6) Insurgent
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
7) Opposite day
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A science experiment gone wrong makes everyone in a small town suddenly swap identities. Parents act like kids. Their kids behave like adults. The oldest cop is 11 years old and grown-ups are playing hopscotch! But can a bickering young brother and sister find a way to save their upside-down town before this reverse spell can take over the globe?
8) Nobody
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
9) Abduction
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen presentation.
Language
English
Description
A young man sets out to discover the truth about his life after discovering his baby picture on a missing persons web site.
10) Identity
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Special edition; Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Ten strangers are brought together at a motel because of a savage rainstorm. All take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they'll have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
12) Return to Seoul
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Follows a young woman who was born in South Korea, adopted as a child, and raised in France, as she returns to South Korea and searches for her biological parents.
13) Freaky Friday
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A conservative, refined mother magically changes place with her thirteen-year old daughter for one day.
14) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together"--
15) Zelig
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Documents, with satire and wit, the career of a "nonentity", whose multiple personality keeps him on the edge of the celebrity world.
16) The company men
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
17) Every day
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Rental.
Language
English
Description
The story of Rhiannon, a sixteen-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named 'A' who inhabits a different body every day. Feeling an unmatched connection, Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring. The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either...
18) The dovekeepers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true events at Masada in 70 C.E. After being forced out of their home in Jerusalem by the Romans, 900 Jews were ensconced in a fortress at Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. Besieged at Masada, the Jews held out for months against the vast Roman armies. The series recounts the events from the perspective of a few extraordinary women who arrive at Masada with unique back stories, but a common bond for survival.
19) Poser
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After creating a podcast to interview local musicians and gain access to the underground music scene in Columbus, Ohio, Lennon Gates begins to create a different identity as she develops a friendship and pursues her ambitions.
20) The experiment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a scientific research project to test the psychological effects of prison life. However, something goes horribly wrong and the experiment ultimately spirals out of control.
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