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Animated television programs. Biographical television programs. Children's films. Christmas films. Historical television programs. Short stories. Television programs for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Émissions télévisées pour personnes handicapées auditives.Freed, Lynn
Summary: "Lynn Freed's deeply personal essays explore our most quintessential question: What makes a home? From very early on she had imagined for herself an ideal life: a stranger in a strange place: someone just arrived, just about to leave, and always with a home to return to. As a teenager on an exchange program to the U.S., she had made up fantastic reasons to escape high school in the suburbs and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824 FREFreed, Lynn
Summary: "A witty new novel about three self-proclaimed "old bags" who run off to a Greek island ... Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset by children again--this time, their grandchildren. In order to escape, they decide to run away to Greece together for a year. At first, settled on a glorious island, barefoot and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFreed, Lynn.
Contents: Under the house -- Foreign student -- The widow's daughter -- Family of shadows -- An error or desire -- Liars, cheats and cowards -- The curse of the appropriate man -- Twilight -- Selina comes to the city -- William -- Songbird -- The first rule of happiness -- Luck -- Ma : a memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction FreedSummary: "The O. Henry Prize stories 2019 gathers twenty of the best short stories of the year, selected from the thousands published in literary magazines over the previous year."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC OHESummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007