Summary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALBellow, Saul
Summary: For his centennial (June 10, 2015), The Library of America and editor James Wood present the final volume in the definitive edition of Saul Bellow’s complete novels. In the last stage of his unparalleled career—which included winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976—Saul Bellow remained an uproarious comic storyteller, a provocative thinker deeply engaged with the intellectual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELSummary: Lenny has decided to relocate his family back to the small town to have his kids grow up where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grownups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GROSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: Set against the spectacular scenery of the Scottish Highlands, this immensely popular heart-warming drama centers around an ancient castle, a collection of tartan-clad eccentrics and the handsome new master of the improverished estate. Explore each season of the delightful drama from the arrival of young laird Archie MacDonald, his evolving romance with housekeeper Lexie, to the arrivel of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide America 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONBellows, Cathy.
Summary: A young toad who sees no point in what she learns at school soon discovers that the lessons are invaluable for getting through life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BELBellow, Saul.
Summary: A suffering and persecuted intellectual, Moses E. Herzog passively accepts the disasters of his private and public affairs in an effort to survive modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBellow, Saul.
Summary: Collects stories featuring such characters as art critic Victor Wulpy, cheeerful and tragic Hattie Waggoner, and death-bed witness Dr. Braun.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBelloni, Giulia.
Summary: A determined sheep and his practical wolf friend try their hand at building a flying machine together, but when their plans don't work like they wanted, they must find a new way to make their dreams come true.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owl Kids 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BELBellow, Saul.
Summary: Tommy Wilhelm tries to save himself from drowning under the weight of his own existence as his life comes apart around him after failing in his job, marriage, and investments.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious and just a little dangerous. Yet in spite of their intimacy, their trust was fragile. Men came into their lives and things changed: a black seed was set in the heart of their relationship. Over decades, acts of both cruelty and love ferment until one shocking event tests them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELSloan, Susan R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOBellow, Saul.
Summary: A witty tale of love in what the novel's protagonist describes is the late phase of his maturity. He is Harry Trellman, an expatriate businessman who returns to Chicago dreaming of his high school sweetheart, the only woman he ever loved but who married another. Fate is kind, the woman is available and Trellman begins recovering his lost youth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBellow, Saul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pengiun Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBellow, Saul.
Summary: Celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of "The Adventures of Augie March," and reflects the mid-twentieth-century's psychological turmoil from more inhibited times in a volume that also includes "The Victim" and "Dangling Man."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBellow, Saul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBellow, Saul.
Summary: Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die of Heartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELMellors, Coco
Summary: "For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELSloan, Susan R.
Summary: A Jewish high school teacher is falsely accused of murder, based on evidence of bigoted students. It happens on Seward Island, off Seattle after the murder of a 15-year-old pregnant girl, stabbed repeatedly in the stomach. Police chief Martinez and detective Ginger Early have an explosive case. By the author of Guilt by Association.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SLOFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELCokal, Susann
Summary: Blood calls to blood; charm calls to charm. It is the way of the world. Come close and tell us your dreams. Sanna is a mermaid -- but she is only half seavish. The night of her birth, a sea-witch cast a spell that made Sanna's people, including her landish mother, forget how and where she was born. Now Sanna is sixteen and an outsider in the seavish matriarchy, and she is determined to find her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUSFellowes, Jessica
Summary: "Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Friend is a dark, suspenseful novel and first standalone from Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford Murders series and the companion Downton Abbey books. Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELFellowes, Jessica
Summary: It's 1920, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London. Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursemaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy, an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories. But then a nurse, Florence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2018