Various
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Who Was Roald Dahl? By True Kelley, read by Rene Ruiz. Listen to find out more about a young boy who raced tricycles with his sister, a heroic pilot in World War II, and one of the most famous children’s book authors of all time.
Who Is Jeff Kinney? By Patrick Kinney, read by Ramón de Ocampo. Listen to find out more about a boy who played practical jokes and made up funny stories, a college student with a popular...
Who Is Jeff Kinney? By Patrick Kinney, read by Ramón de Ocampo. Listen to find out more about a boy who played practical jokes and made up funny stories, a college student with a popular...
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
They may look like ordinary posts of exotic pets for sale on social media. But they are feeding a growing trade in illegal and endangered animals in Malaysia and beyond. This criminal industry is worth billions and is jeopardising attempts to protect endangered species.
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (46 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Drugs, guns, counterfeit documents and much more are sold on dark web marketplaces that run on anonymous browsers and using cryptocurrency. AlphaBay was the biggest marketplace, transacting over US$800,000 in a day enabling its founder to live a luxury lifestyle in anonymity, until international law enforcement caught up with him.
4) Dark Web
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (186 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
There's a dark side to the internet, and you probably don't even know it exists. Look behind the positive veneer of social media, communication apps and platforms that have made our lives easier and more connected, and you'll find criminals using the same apps and platforms to run illicit and dangerous activities. Sextortion syndicates target victims globally through social media. Illegal wildlife trades thrive on social consumer marketplaces. Digital...
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (48 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Sextortion was invented by one woman in the Philippines, Maria Caparas. She turned the idea of making friends online and recording explicit video chats into a profitable blackmail and extortion scam that could not exist without social media. She now runs a mini empire seemingly beyond the reach of authorities, that has led to many suicides.
6) The Candyman
Publisher
Sideways Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It was one of 640 million closed groups on Facebook. Hiding behind the anonymity, the creator of child pornography group Loli Candy and its 7,000 members hid their activities on Facebook and Whatsapp - the dissemination of horrifying images of abuse. While they were eventually bought to justice many more thrive.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
9) Hamlet Novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
10) The House
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The old, abandoned house at the end of Grace's street is a local legend. All the neighbors say it's haunted, but every Halloween someone leaves candy on the front porch. Grace and her friends decide to investigate, hoping to find out once and for all if someone-or something-really is haunting the place. But what if there is more to the...
11) Romeo and Juliet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Romeo and Juliet", one of William Shakespeare's most iconic tragedies, tells the poignant tale of young love and family conflict. Set in Verona, Italy, the story revolves around the passionate romance between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, members of feuding families.
The star-crossed lovers meet at a masquerade ball and quickly fall deeply in love, despite their families' bitter rivalry. Their secret relationship leads to a series of events...
12) The starless sea
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Collected
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling comics series that was the inspiration for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, now on Season 3!
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."
These...
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."
These...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Hannah's sister, Alexis, has been acting different lately. For one thing, she's constantly on her phone when she never used to care that much about it. But after Hannah discovers that Alexis has developed a relationship with a boy she met online, her strange behavior starts to make sense. What's worse, Alexis plans to skip out on college...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
16) The Moonstone
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Considered the first true detective story Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, it introduced many hallmarks of detective fiction, including an English country house setting, bungling local policemen, and a large number of false suspects. In it, Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday...
17) Pygmalion
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
One of George Bernard Shaw's best-known plays, Pygmalion is based on ancient Greek mythology. Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights.
Shaw's updated and revised version of this ancient Greek legend was first presented in England in 1914. Poking fun of the antiquated British class system, it introduces Henry Higgins, a professor...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Seventeen titles from the New York Times bestselling series brought to life by a full cast!
What makes a hero? Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos answer that question, one great role model at a time. This audiobook collection includes:
I am Billie Jean King
I am Neil Armstrong
I am Sonia Sotomayor
I am Abraham Lincoln
I am Amelia Earhart
I am Rosa Parks
I...
What makes a hero? Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos answer that question, one great role model at a time. This audiobook collection includes:
I am Billie Jean King
I am Neil Armstrong
I am Sonia Sotomayor
I am Abraham Lincoln
I am Amelia Earhart
I am Rosa Parks
I...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the problem of space junk that clutters outer space and details the ways in which NASA and other organizations are trying to deal with and solve this problem. --
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
One of William Shakespeare's most farcical comedies, "The Comedy of Errors" is notable for its use of mistaken identity to achieve a slapstick comedic effect. Ripe with the bard's characteristic word play, the comedy concerns the lives of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated shortly after their birth. The play begins by the elderly Syracusian trader Egeon relating the back-story of his family. When Egeon was young, he married...