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3) Cat's cradle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ghana is not a good place to have a disability--parents either poison their disabled children, or leave them to die in the forest--it's called "seeing off." At best, the disabled are expected to be beggars. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah was born with one deformed leg, which led his father to abandon his mother. Until her early death, she championed her son, enrolling him in school and taking him to various doctors searching for a cure. Her encouragement proved...
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 2
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 1
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr. a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
Series
The Sapranos volume s. 6 , pt. 1
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged, Italian-American businessman in New Jersey with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's got a psychiatrist to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows. He's also a mob boss facing several crises. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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