Alcott, Louisa May
Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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Summary: "Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYLiebert, Emily
Summary: "An engrossing novel that examines the intricacies of marriage and friendship, and the power of unexpected connections... Annabel Ford has everything under control, devoting her time to her twin boys and keeping her household running smoothly. But when her husband of a decade announces that he's leaving, she's blindsided. And suddenly her world begins to unravel. Piper Whitley has always done...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy come of age while their father is off to war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LITSummary: Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOMMartin, George R. R
Summary: "All new and original to this volume, the 21 stories in Dangerous Women include work by twelve New York Times bestsellers, and seven stories set in the authors' bestselling continuities--including a new "Outlander" story by Diana Gabaldon, a tale of Harry Dresden's world by Jim Butcher, a story from Lev Grossman set in the world of The Magicians, and a 35,000-word novella by George R. R. Martin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERGibbons, Kaye
Summary: Maureen Ross, who has had her spirit battered throughout her marriage to Troop Ross, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy, and Troop's niece, coming to help her aunt in the last weeks of confinement, is horrified by Troop's bullying.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike/Chivers 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GIBGibbons, Kaye
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIBCrusie, Jennifer.
Summary: Following her divorce, Nell Dysart takes a job working for a detective agency and finds herself knee deep in embezzlement, bribery, blackmail, arson, adultery, murder, and passion with her boss, Gabe McKenna.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CRUAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: The story of the joys and trials of the March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy that they encountered through their youth and young womanhood in and around their New England Home and how they attempted to support the family while their Father is away at war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCHannah, Kristin
Summary: "When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007
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Summary: The heartwarming classic is now available in an affordable softcover edition featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALCAlcott, Louisa May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNL'Engle, Madeleine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC L'EngAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavalier Classics 0000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC ALCDallas, Sandra.
Summary: It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murder in the brothel where she was living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DALFredriksson, Marianne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2001
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Summary: The Avengers discover a strange energy reading coming from a video game Spider-Man and Giant-Girl are playing and decide to investigate a Renaissance Fair that appears to be the source of the signal. There, they encounter Morgan le Fay. Iron Man and Captain America must defeat Morgan's champion while Wolverine and Bruce Banner try to stop the signal broadcast and free those held captive by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 PARSummary: In a dusty, under populated California resort town, naive southern waif Pinky Rose idolizes and befriends her fellow nurse, the would-be sophisticate "thoroughly modern" Millie Lammoreaux. When Millie takes Pinky in as her roommate, Pinky's hero worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than either could have anticipated. This dreamlike masterpiece careens from the humorous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA THRMcCullough, Colleen
Summary: The story of Julius Caesar on the theme that behind every man there stands a woman. In this case there were several, among them his strong-willed mother, his formidable mistress and his beautiful daughter, whom he married to Pompey in order to cement an alliance. The story is told against the background of everyday life in ancient Rome, detailing the mores and manners of the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon A 2008