Staff Picks
Rory Gilmore's Reading Challenge (List #5 - Starting with 'The Code of the Woosters')
- Ariel H.
- Friday, February 11, 2022
Collection
☕ Take a deep dive into all the books seen and referenced on the Gilmore Girls from Season 1 to A Year in the Life.
📚 Just in time for our winter weather. So, grab your books, a cup of coffee (or hot cocoa), and bundle up by the fire.
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Since there are 408 titles, there will be multiple lists sent out over the next few months. Enjoy!
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Emperor Waltz.
Published in 2003
The double feature of two of Bing Crosby's musicals, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and The Emperor Waltz, on a double-sided disc.
Count of Monte Cristo (2002.
Published in 2002
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous 'friends,' escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Crime and Punishment.
Published in 2015
Crippled by guilt and paranoia after committing a murder he thinks is just, Roderick Raskolnikov is torn between the detective investigating the murder and the woman he saved, who now wants to save his soul.
Crime and Punishment
Published in 2021
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is one of the world's first psychological thrillers. A mesmerizing detective story with an intriguing and multifarious central character, Crime and Punishment hinges on the ethical dilemmas and angst of the student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov who plans and implements the murder of a ruthless pawnbroker. Rodion convinces himself that in killing her he will both solves his financial problems and divests the world of a wicked leech. But can he commit a murder and escape all consequences?
The Count of Monte Cristo
Published in 2005
Wrongfully imprisoned for 14 years, Edmond Dants escapes to the island of Monte Cristo. What awaits him there is a fortune in gold--and a new identity with which to pursue his revenge and redemption.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Published in 2008
The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If on a false political charge. After staging a dramatic escape, he finds the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo which makes him wealthy. He then sets upon the course of revenge against his old enemies.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Published in 2008
Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If, a guarded island bastion in France, on a false political indictment. After staging a sensational prison break, he discovers the legendary treasure of Monte Cristo. Newly wealthy, Dantes sets out on a course of revenge and redemption.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Published in 2003
Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years imprisonment and seeks his revenge in Paris.
Contact
Published in 2009
December 1999, the dawn of the millennium. After years of scanning the galaxy for signs of somebody or something else, a team of international scientists believe they've found a message from an intelligent source--and they travel deep into space to meet it. Who--or what--is out there?
Contact
Published in 2019
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
The Complete Poems
Published in 1999
From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Published in 2005
This satirical novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander, who brings to King Arthur's Age of Chivalry the "great and benificent" miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and Yankee ingenuity.
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Published in 2006
A collection of essays shares whimsical observations about such topics as the Bush-Kerry presidential race, the pain experienced by lobsters while they are being prepared for the feast, and Franz Kafka's questionable sense of humor.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
Published in 1980
This omnibus volume by one of the South's greatest writers includes stories published prior to 1980. Stories are as good in themselves and as influential on the aspirations of others as any since Hemingway's. The breadth of Welty's offering is finally most visible not in the variety of types--farce, satire, horror, lyric, pastoral, mystery--but in the clarity and solidity and absolute honesty of a lifetime's vision.
The Code of the Woosters
Published in 2011
"They say trouble comes in threes, and Bertie Wooster soon learns why. It all begins when his aunt Dahlia asks him to steal a silver cow creamer illegally obtained by her husband's silver rival. Then comes the telegram from Gussie Fink-Nottle begging Bertie to come to Totleigh Towers to mend the rift between him and his soppy fiancée, Madeline Bassett. To top it all off, Bertie must contend with Roderick Spode, the menacing, black shorts-wearing, amateur dictator. How will Bertie get the cow creamer, stay unengaged from Madeline, and survive Totleigh Tower?"--Page 4 of cover.