The Jungle
Presents Upton Sinclair's classic novel, which depicts the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young Lithuanian immigrant struggling in early-twentieth-century America, and includes a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, critical analyses, and other study tools.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 173
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1170
subjects: lithuanian americans, working class, stockyards, immigrants, chicago (ill.), meat industry and trade, meat industry, polish americans, meat industry and trade fiction, food and drug laws, meat packing industry, sinclair, upton, american literature, meatpacking industry, working conditions, pure food and drug act, political fiction, political fiction, audiobooks, audiobooks [X], compact discs, illinois, didactic fiction, politics, electronic books
Macbeth
"Orson Welles' dark and moody screen version of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide - in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision.
822.3
year: 2017
copies: 190
call number/section: 822.3
lexile: 480
subjects: macbeth, regicides, homicide, scotland, cartoons and comics, plays, drama, shakespeare, william, english drama, children's plays, english, english literature, tragedies, treason, political crimes and offenses, english drama (tragedy), audiobooks, murder, kings, queens, rulers, etc, historical films, feature films, historical drama, betrayal, fate and fatalism, graphic novels, macbeth, king of scotland, tragedia, escocia, historical drama, tragedies, audiobooks [X], tragedies (drama), gruoch, kings and rulers, spanish subtitles, feature films, videodiscs, dvds, dvd-video discs, historical films, video recordings for the hearing impaired, war films, drama, fiction films, film adaptations, children's plays, witches, spanish language, comic books, strips, etc, graphic novels, spanish language materials, arabic language, historical fiction, electronic books
Great Expectations
Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 179
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1230
subjects: young men, england, dickens, charles, orphans, coming of age, man-woman relationship, ex-convicts, benefactors, youth, bildungsromans, great britain, man-woman relationships, revenge, historical fiction, closed caption video recordings, closed captioning, dvds, audiobooks, working class, inheritance and succession, literature - adapted, gifts, bildungsromane, audiobooks [X], bildungsromans, adaptations, graphic novels, love stories, love, cartoons and comics, conduct of life, industrial revolution, social classes, electronic books
The Scarlet Letter
This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 434
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 410
subjects: prynne, hester (fictitious character), puritans, adultery, women, triangles (interpersonal relations), illegitimate children, women immigrants, married women, boston (mass.), adultry, puritans fiction, new england fiction, illegitimacy, wives, united states, hawthorne, nathaniel, prynne, hester (fictional character), massachusetts, clergy, new england, audiobooks, social values, large type books, immigrants, graphic novel graphic novels, puritains, fiction, digital audiotape recorders and recordings, audiobooks [X], playaway (digital audiobook), revenge, historical fiction, large print books, man-woman relationships, man-woman relationship, historical fiction, compact discs, electronic books, psychological fiction, didactic fiction