Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

Britain's longest-running sitcom returns to the picturesque village of Holmfirth in Yorkshire, marking its 30th anniversary. Our ageing delinquents wend their merry way through the Dales, gleefully filling their time with half-baked schemes and schoolboy pranks.

Marty is a struggling screenwriter who wants nothing more than to finish his script. Instead, he becomes entangled with the Los Angeles gangster underworld when his odd, but well-meaning friends kidnap a volatile gangster's shih tzu. The ordeal gives Marty all the inspiration he needs; now, he must live long enough to finish his story. "...one of the best times I've had at the movies in years."--Richard Roeper "...filled with clever jokes and observations..."--New...

DI Richard Poole is still trapped on the stunning Caribbean island paradise of Saint-Marie as this light-hearted detective drama returns. The sun, sea and sand still continue to irritate him, just as he irritates his long-suffering colleagues. Alongside the beautiful Sergeant Camille Bordey, he takes on a baffling array of murder cases, from pirate curses to nuns killed in locked rooms - even solving cases with a hurricane bearing down on them. Most...

Comedy set in a West Midlands job centre. Neurotic manager Trish runs the Brownall Job Centre aided by a mixed-bag of staff, including reluctant and truculant Karl, the less-than-helpful Angela and two uniquely skilled security guards, all facing the challenges of dealing with customers who don't always appreciate their efforts.

David Mitchell stars as William Shakespeare in a rip-roaring comedy tribute to the Bard. Written by Ben Elton, this fictional account of his early career follows Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, while also trying to be a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The story of a thirtysomething couple whose decision to adopt a cat changes their perspective on life, literally altering the course of time and testing their faith in themselves and each other. "Extraordinary, daring, breathtaking!"--Entertainment Weekly "Wonderfully whimsical."--Village Voice

An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix. "An inside-showbiz lark that regards the 1950s studio system with the ulmost skepticism even as it becomes an expression of movie love at its purest."--Variety "The combination of the Coen brothers' filmmaking acumen and George Clooney in absolute buffoon mode is again Hollywood...

Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...

On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock n' Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. Elvis & Nixon illustrates the untold story behind this revealing yet humorous moment in the Oval Office, forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives. "Elvis & Nixon is one of the most entertaining movies I've seen this year - a whip-smart...