drama

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First Knight

This is a new vision of King Arthur's Camelot. A vision of battles, courage, of the undeniable love that brought an entire kingdom to its knees ... and the undying passion that made it live forever.

Timeline

A team of student archaeologists working on a dig in France find themselves alone when their professor is transported in time back to the Middle Ages.

A Christmas memory

Buddy, abandoned by his parents at the age of seven and sent to live with unmarried cousins in the 1930s, bonds with the older, slightly simple Sook, who enlists him in a plan to bake over thirty fruitcakes to be given as Christmas presents.

Brewster's millions

Montgomery Brewster is a down-and-out baseball player who discovers that he is the only living relative of an eccentric multimillionaire. Monty stands to inherit $300 million, but only if he can spend $30 million in a single month without acquiring any assets. If he fails, it's back to zero again.

Pirates of Silicon Valley

Depicts the beginnings of Apple Computer in Steve Jobs's garage and Microsoft in Bill Gates's dorm room and dramatizes the two men's competition to control the fledgling personal computer empire.

The ant bully

When young Lucas aims his water pistol at some hapless ants, the ants retaliate with a secret potion that shrinks him down to their size. The young boy learns a lesson about bullying when he's forced to join the ant colony that he tormented.

Macbeth

Presents the original text, side-by-side with an English translation, of Shakespeare's tragedy in which Macbeth and his ambitious wife plot to kill their king and his heirs, clearing the way for Macbeth to seize the crown of Scotland for himself, and includes a brief synopsis of the plot and action, character profiles, a cycle-of-death graphic, and discussion questions.

Macbeth

Presents a graphic novel adaptation of Shakespeare's drama about Macbeth, a man who kills the king in an attempt to seize the crown of Scotland for himself.

The tempest

and related readings
Presents the script for the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. Also includes seven other related literary works.

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