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Pub. Date
2022.
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"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election--and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation--is determined to take high school politics by storm. Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
62) October sky
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The true story of Homer Hickam Jr., a high school student in rural West Virginia, who seemed destined to repeat his father's harsh life in the coal mines, until he turned his attention to the skies.
Pub. Date
[2011]
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Holly is an up-and-coming caterer and Messer is a promising network sports director. After a disastrous first date, all they have in common is their dislike for each other and their love for their goddaughter Sophie. But when they suddenly become all Sophie has in this world, Holly and Messer must set their differences aside. Juggling career ambitions and competing social calendars, they'll have to find common ground while living under the same roof....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because he feels that it is his sense of duty, refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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Three fierce women connected to a billionaire film mogul collide at a Hollywood party in this richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, and privilege. Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Summary: Explores the spiritual journey from ambition to meaning. The powerful shift from the ego constructs we are taught early in life which promote an emphasis on achievement and accumulation are shown in contrast to a life of meaning, focused on serving and giving back. Intertwined stories inspire and teach how to create a life of meaning and purpose. Bonus includes additional scenes and interviews with Dyer.
68) Ambitious girl
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A girl sees a woman labeled as having too much ambition, but when the girl considers its definition she finds herself inspired and realizes ambition is required to make changes to the world and have her voice be heard.
69) Ballet shoes
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Cuando la inexperta estudiante Anastasia Steele conocio al joven, seductor y exitoso empresario Christian Grey, nacio entre ellos una sensual relacion que cambio sus vidas para siempre. Sin embargo, desconcertada y llevada al limite por las peculiares practicas eroticas de Christian, Ana lucha por conseguir un mayor compromiso por parte de el. Y Christian accede con tal de no perderla. Ahora, Ana y christian lo tienen todo: amor, pasion y un mundo...
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Tom Rath doesn't want anything extraordinary out of life : just a decent home, enough money to support his family, and a career that won't crush his spirit. After returning from World War II, he takes a PR job at a television network. It is inane, dehumanizing work. But when a series of personal crises forces him to reexamine his priorities -- and take responsibility for his past -- he is finally moved to carve out an identity for himself.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Alex Vogel has always been a high achiever who lived her life by the book--star student and athlete in high school, prelaw whiz in college, Harvard Law School degree. Accepting a dream offer at the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Klasko & Fitch, she promises her sweet and supportive longtime boyfriend that the job won't change her. Yet Alex is seduced by the firm's money and energy ... and by her cocksure male colleagues, who quickly take notice...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Every hoax is a curtain, and behind it is a deceiver operating levers and smoke machines to make us see what is not there and miss what is. As P.T. Barnum knew, you can short-circuit critical thinking in any century by telling people what they want to hear. Most scams operate on a personal scale, but some have shaped the balance of world power, inspired explorers to sail uncharted seas, derailed scientific progress, or caused terrible massacres. A...
74) Ugetsu
Series
Criterion collection volume 309
Pub. Date
2005
Description
In sixteenth century Japan a village potter and his brother-in-law set out for the city to seek their fortunes in the spoils of war. Their neglected wives suffer the bitter consequences of their husbands' ambition as one is murdered by soldiers and the other is raped and becomes a prostitute.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Cass was a young, promising playwright, once heralded as a fierce new queer voice in female empowerment. Now, however, following a scandal that forced her abrupt exit from the New York theatre world, she's hiding out in Los Angeles, reeling from her public humiliation, incessantly calling her former agent's assistant in the hopes that she'll put her through, and spying on her next door neighbor, who seems to have a steady stream of mysterious visitors...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this wickedly sharp, propulsive debut, a classicist must outmaneuver her manipulative mentor. Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University, under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed. Driven by what he mistakes as love for Tessa, Chris has ensured that...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Magni Viri is Tara's dream. Like everyone at Corbin College, she longs to join its elite ranks. Notoriously insular, the students who spend four years within the academic societies shadowed halls come out changed into innovators ready to shake the world. As a first-gen college student, Tara knew she was a long shot. But when a Magni Viri student mysteriously dies, a spot opens for Tara, and she sees her dreams finally coming true. Suddenly she's surrounded...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Chloe loves singing and spends hours practicing. When she gets the chance to audition for Rockley Park-- the school for aspiring pop stars-- she is determined to make the cut. But first she must persuade her parents that her ambition is real.