Lamar Public Library

A stuffed toy comes to life and helps a boy reconnect with his family.

Has any other love story become so enmeshed in our culture as the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet? In fair Verona the families of Montague and Capulet are locked in a long-standing, bitter blood feud when young Romeo Montague slips into a masquerade party at the Capulet's. During the dance he glimpses Juliet, the daughter of the house, and is struck by love at first sight. She returns his passion and they promise each other everlasting love notwithstanding...

Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

Welcome to Hotel Transylvania, Dracula's lavish five-stake resort, where monsters and their families can live it up and no humans are allowed. One special weekend, Dracula (Adam Sandler) has invited all his best friends--Frankenstein and his wife, the Mummy, the Invisible Man, the Werewolf family, and more--to celebrate his beloved daughter Mavis's (Selena Gomez) 118th birthday. For Dracula, catering to all of these legendary monsters is no problem...

"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...

The very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and George (Pa Grape), who lacks self-confidence, are three lazy misfits who dream of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems, this dream might not come true. But, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century. They begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. Along the way, they learn about being pirates.

A young Irish boy finds a bagful of money. He and his older brother have differing views on what to do with the money. What they both discover is that money can cause lots of problems. "*****, Danny Boyle has directed a heartfelt, emotionally delicate children's movie about life and death and all the parts in between."--New York Times "One of the most stylish and eccentric films about childhood dreams and heartbreaks that I've ever seen."--Richard...

When Aaron's father dies, he must organize the funeral and give the eulogy. Keeping things civil is a problem right from the start when the undertaker makes a horrifying mistake. Then his brother, Ryan wants to be in the spotlight and refuses to pay for anything. But this is nothing compared to information received from a mysterious dwarf at the funeral who exposes way too many family secrets.

Contains one hundred short essays in which the author shares specific strategies for dealing with stress, relationship problems, work-related issues, addictions, and general frustration by responding to life more gracefully.

"Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) is one of America's most beloved writers, most known for his short stories of mystery and horror. He was also an accomplished poet and tough literary critic. Much like the drama and fiction, Poe's life was full of hardships. Orphaned at a young age, he was raised by a foster family. As a young man, he developed problems with gambling, debts, and alcohol, and was even dismissed from the army. His love life was marked by...