Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILBraden, Ann
Summary: Seventh-grader Zoey Albro focuses on caring for three younger siblings and avoiding rich classmates at school until her fascination with octopuses gets her on the debate team and she begins to speak out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sky Pony Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIBraden, Ann
Summary: Raised to keep her head down and not ask questions, when twelve-year-old Agnes befriends her older anthropologist neighbor, she begins to think--and write--about things from new perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BRASummary: As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Courageous 2009Summary: The kids are thrilled that Bernie's come back! But so has their old enemy Winston, who's about to kidnap the talented dolphin. Can Kevin and Holly rescue their splashy friend before its too late?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeSummary: Based on an inspiring true story, this emotionally powerful crowd-pleaser emerged as one of the year's most talked about independent films. It's the fascinating and epic tale of Li Cunxin, a peasant boy from rural China who beats impossible odds to become a world-renowned ballet dancer. Through breathtaking talent and sheer determination, Li makes his way to the United States, but when he falls...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mao 2011Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OGreen, Jane
Summary: A woman marries into a ready-made family and learns the true meaning of motherhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GREGreen, Jane
Summary: "Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines--and rather dull boyfriend--of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2016Green, Jane
Summary: Jemima Jones, nearly one hundred pounds overweight and in love with a man she believes she can never have, meets a California hunk on the Internet, introducing herself as JJ, a slim, beautiful, glamour girl; but when her online love demands to meet her in person, Jemima knows it is time to take action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreen, Jane
Summary: Setting aside her dreams of a cottage in the country, a young Englishwoman accepts the proposal of wealthy man-about-town whose indiscretions at work force them to move to America.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GreAllen, Josh
Summary: A collection of thirteen short stories showing how horribly wrong food, dating, jobs, and even a bed pillow can be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Green, Jane
Summary: Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GreGreen, Jane
Summary: Evvie, Maggie, and Topher have known each other since university. Their friendship was something they swore would last forever. Now years have passed, the friends have drifted apart, and none of them ever found the lives they wanted - the lives they dreamed of when they were young and everything seemed possible. Evvie starved herself to become a supermodel but derailed her career by sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GREGreen, Jane
Summary: The personal lives of sisters Callie and Steff, their friend, and their divorced parents are irrevocably changed throughout the course of an extraordinary summer in Maine that forces them to reevaluate their relationships and roles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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Summary: "June, 1998: At twenty seven, Catherine Coombs, also known as Cat, is struggling. She lives in London, works as a journalist, and parties hard. Her lunchtimes consist of several glasses of wine at the bar downstairs in the office, her evenings much the same, swigging the free booze and eating the free food at a different launch or party every night. When she discovers the identity of the father...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2015Green, Jane
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Falling presents a warm, wise, and wonderfully vivid novel about a mother who asks her three estranged daughters to come home to help her end her life. Ronni Sunshine left London for Hollywood to become a beautiful, charismatic star of the silver screen. But at home, she was a narcissistic, disinterested mother who alienated her three daughters. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRESummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYAllen, Josh
Summary: A collection of thirteen short stories that reveals frightening secrets lurking in everyday objects.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALLSummary: The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHIGreen, Jane
Summary: Kit Hargrove is a single mom who works for a famous--and famously reclusive--male novelist in the beach community of a tiny Connecticut town. One day she stumbles upon a secret her employer has kept hidden for years, a secret that plenty of the women in town would love to get their hands on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2009
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Summary: As her upcoming marriage to Dan, a proper man from a close-knit family approaches, Ellie, an impulsive young woman with little or no family, finds herself coping with the intrusive attentions of Dan's mother, Linda, as she finds her own wedding plans turned upside down by Linda's interference and by her overpowering presence in Dan's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREGreen, Jane
Summary: Grace and Ted Chapman. On the surface, they seem to have it all. Beneath, what no one sees is Ted's rages. His mood swings. And the precarious house of cards that their lifestyle is built upon. When Ted's longtime assistant and mainstay leaves, the house of cards begins to crumble and Grace, with dark secrets in her past, is most vulnerable. To the rescue comes Beth, a new assistant. Someone...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014