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Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Akeelah Anderson's life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She is a smart girl, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah decides to participate in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from...
2) Hamlet
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shakespeare's classic drama exploring madness, guilt, justice and self-perception.
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a small village in the south of England, a handsome working man falls in love with the newly arrived schoolteacher from a wealthy family who happens to be the village beauty. Other richer men want to win her hand as well. Who will win her hand?
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
When Margaret Ryder, the hearing daughter of deaf parents, grows up during the Great Depression, she alone is the link between Mama and Papa's silent world and the hearing world they do not fully understand...and it does not understand them. Her youth is spent sacrificing friendships and romance as she struggles to keep her parents' deafness a secret from everyone who knows her. Torn between the responsibility she feels for her parents and her own...
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