Summary: For Bumper, life is just a bowl of cherries. Living in New York City's Central Park, the happy-go-lucky hobo king spends his time singing and enjoying himself without a care in the world. But when he rescues a beautiful amnesiac from a park lake, his cares suddenly increase. Not only has he fallen in love with the pretty blonde, but he has also discovered she's the missing sweetheart of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HALContents: Disc 1. Charlie's antics. A day's pleasure -- Sunnyside -- The kid -- Between showers -- Charlie's recreation -- Cruel, cruel love -- Film Johnny -- His favorite pastime -- Kid auto races at Venice -- Mabel's storage predicament -- Making a living -- Behind the screen -- Easy Street -- The cure -- The rink -- The immigrant -- Charlie Chaplin stunt reel (bonus feature).
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Clair Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHAGarner, Alan
Summary: Living alone in an old house, Joseph Coppock, an introspective young boy, develops a mysterious friendship with a rag-and-bone man called Treacle Walker who introduces him to a world beyond his wildest imagination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KITSummary: Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOSCannell, Stephen J.
Summary: The disparate worlds of Hollywood power-brokers, tramps, and cutting-edge microbiology combine as a secret bio-weapons laboratory starts using a Texas prison as a site to test its latest weapon, where it might be stolen by white supremacists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 1999
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CanneSummary: A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BOUSummary: A legendary depression-era hobo and his young accomplice battle a sadistic railroad worker in a determined bid to hitch a ride.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EMPSummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODTripp, Valerie
Summary: Tired of doing chores and longing for adventure during the Great Depression, Kit meets a hobo and decides to hop a freight train.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pleasant Company Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC TRISummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULCarlson, Natalie Savage.
Summary: An old tramp, adopted by three fatherless children when their mother hides them under a bridge on the Seine, finds a home for mother and children and a job for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTrophy Publishers 1958
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CARCarville, James.
Summary: During the Depression in the Louisiana bayou, a curious young girl helps the "Swamp Ghost" that her cousins warned her about and finds herself with one good friend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC CARAlexander, Kirsten
Summary: "In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEBruchac, Joseph
Summary: In 1932, twelve-year-old Cal must stop being a hobo with his father and go to a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school, where he begins learning about his history and heritage as a Creek Indian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Departures 2001
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Summary: Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2023
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Summary: Del Wensley, wife of the most celebrated preacher in Harlan County, tries to mind her place. Until her husband's infidelity pushes an already strained marriage to a breaking point. Clinging to her last hope for self-respect, Del turns her back on the rigid life she's known. A coal train is rolling through the valley. With her eyes wide open to the unfamiliar, and to the freedom she craves, Del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC HAW (Peninsula Book Club Kit 8 paperbacks)Puchner, Martin
Summary: "Tracking an underground language from one family's obsession to the outcasts who spoke it in order to survive. Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were "wiz" (in the know)-vagrants and refugees, merchants and thieves. This hybrid language was rich in expressions for police, jail, or experiencing trouble, such as "being...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 437.009 PUCWelch, Jack
Summary: The founders of the Jack Welch Management Institute, a fully accredited online MBA program, present a guide to overcoming modern business challenges, with recommendations for creating effective strategies, leading others, and building a thriving career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658 WELAbdo, Kenny
Summary: This title focuses on the Los Angeles Rams and gives information related to the team's origin in the NFL, their journey through the decades, and highlighting their Hall of Fame players. This hi-lo title is complete with vibrant photographs, simple text, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022