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English
Description
Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity
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Series
Proper romance volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Moore needs to secure her sister's engagement to Sir Ronald or else the two sisters will be left destitute. The only problem is that Peter Wood has the same goal for his own sister. Amelia and Peter begin a rivalry--one that Amelia has no choice but to win--but competing against Peter makes Amelia vulnerable to losing the only thing she has left to claim--her heart"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815 Olivia Wilde has resigned herself to never finding a love match. Her father has insisted she marry a man with a title, if only to increase his own standing and reputation in society. But the men her father deems acceptable are, at best, boring and uninspiring, and at worse, are as brutish as her father, and are only looking to increase their own diminishing coffers. With her future looking dismal, Olivia decides to enjoy the last few...
5) Stardust
Author
Language
English
Description
In the sleepy English countryside, at the dawn of the Victorian era, the pursuit of a fallen star sends a lovelorn young man over the city wall and into another reality.
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man's brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, she's drawn into a plot, not knowing who's telling the truth.
Author
Series
Proper romance volume 2
Language
English
Description
"England, 1820. Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. She only has three weeks before her life changes...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sir David Attenborough reveals spectacular scenes of courting and companionship. Some species need to overcome the challenges of a vast environment just to find a member of the opposite sex. Others find themselves pitched against their neighbors in mass mating aggregations. Some must impress with complex displays. Others build extraordinary structures just to prove their worth. One thing, however, connects them all the drive to succeed at all costs....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermino Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs -- yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a classic English story, Cassandra Mortmain chronicles in her diary what happens to her eccentric family when a young American man inherits the local estate. The bittersweet love story that ensues is far more complicated than she ever imagines.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
76 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about meddling fairies who create unintended love triangles among a group of teenagers.
15) La Boheme
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flower-maker, is a beautifully balanced series of tableaux depicting the infectious joie de vivre of youth and the tragic waste of disease and separation.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
428 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the great halls of science, dogma holds that Darwin's theory of natural selection explains every branch on the tree of life: which species thrive, which wither away to extinction, and what features each evolves. But can adaptation by natural selection really account for everything we see in nature? Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum — reviving Darwin's own views — thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1998, c1872
Physical Desc
lvi, 224 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A pastoral work telling of the struggle of the Mellstock Quire, a group of country church musicians, against the threat of their replacement by a single organist. It also tells of the love of Fancy Day and Dick Dewy.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (74 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
"Hubie is a hopeless romantic in love with Marina, the most beautiful penguin in all of Antarctica. When he magically stumbles upon the perfect pebble, he knows he has to find the courage to ask Marina to mate with him for life. But the evil penguin Drake, who also wants Marina, has other plans, and he throws Hubie into the ocean. Castaway Hubie meets the fearless Rocko, a penguin determined to fly, and together they must get Hubie home before the...
Author
Series
Betrothed volume 1
Publisher
Harper Teen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
307 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked--and thrilled. After all, she's grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king's attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. Capturing his heart is a dream come true. But Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one’s short list to be president. A country lawyer living above a dry goods shop, he is lacking both money and manners, and his gift for oratory surprises those who meet him. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with an interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. “I can only hope,” she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua...
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