Summary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLEClark, Dorothy.
Summary: "In her silk finery, Sarah Randolph knew she was no more a nanny than the haughty widower before her. She'd made a profound error in judgement. How long would it be before Clayton Bainbridge cast her out? She vowed to pack up her trunks and return to Philadelphia at once. But that city held memories of her lost fianc,̌ and sweet little Nora Bainbridge desperately needed some mothering. Sarah...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Steeple Hill 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: In this charming, evocative, soul-touching novel, Dorothea Benton Frank once again takes us deep into the heart of the magical Lowcountry where three amazing middle aged women are bonded by another amazing woman's death. Through their shared loss they forge a deep friendship, asking critical questions. Who was their friend and what did her life mean? Are they living the lives they imagined for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Caroline Wimbley Levine returns to her childhood home of Tall Pines Plantation in South Carolina to help her brother deal with their eccentric and headstrong mother, Miss Lavinia, in a story of family bonds, secrets, betrayal, and understanding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jove Books 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivan's Island.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Newly graduated from college and an aspiring writer, Beth Hayes craves independence and has a world to conquer. But her notions of travel, graduate study, and writing the great American novel will have to be postponed. With her mother leaving to fulfill her own dreams in Paris and her aunt, uncle, and stepfather moving to California, Beth is elected by her elders to house-sit the Island Gamble.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: "Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRANFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: "One enchanted summer, two couples begin a friendship that will last more than twenty years and transform their lives. A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts, Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2013
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Summary: Caroline Wimbley Levine must preside over the Tall Pines Plantation after her mother's death. However, who, if anyone, could possible fill the void left by The Queen of Tall Pines?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRASummary: Seventh continent: The day-to-day routines of a seemingly ordinary Austrian family begin to take on a sinister complexion in Michael Haneke's chilling portrait of bourgeois anomie giving way to shocking self-destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MICFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: This is a story of people whose lives are changing - a southern gentleman returning home to lead a more peaceful life and his talented New York wife who is not quite sure she is ready to make the transition. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, downsizing. And while they are doing this, they are getting glimpses into other people's lives over the course of a summer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: A chance meeting on the Isle of Palms, one of Charleston's most stunning barrier islands, brings former sweethearts Adam Stanley and Eve Landers together again. Their respective spouses, Eliza and Carl, fight sparks of jealousy flaring from their imagined rekindling of old flames. As Adam and Eve get caught up on their lives, their partners strike up a deep friendship -- and flirt with an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: This is a story of people whose lives are changing--a southern gentleman returning home to lead a more peaceful life and his talented New York wife who is not quite sure she is ready to make the transition. They are moving north to south, fast pace versus slow pace, downsizing. And while they are doing this, they are getting glimpses into other people's lives over the course of a summer,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Frank 2016Frank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: The blue-blooded Langley family and the new-money Barretts are at odds over the impending wedding of JD and Betts. And then a shocking event on the night of their engagement changes everything.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: For Big Al and Connie, their move from New Jersey to Hilton Head, South Carolina, has been fraught with complications, especially for their daughter Grace, a thirty-one-year-old single, Catholic woman struggling for independence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRASummary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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Summary: What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRA
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: To many, Folly Beach is one of the most beautiful and idyllic of places. But to Cate Cooper, it is the place that harbors many bad memories from the past. She never planned on coming back, but her late husband has left her both penniless and without a home. As Cate takes inventory of her life, she looks to Folly Beach's history for answers to her future.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Frank 2011Frank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Returning to Folly Beach, her childhood home, newly widowed Cate Cooper, whose late husband's financial exploits have left her homeless and broke, discovers that it is possible to go home again and discover the person she was meant to become.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: "Best friends since the first day of classes at The College of Charleston, Ashley Anne Waters and Mary Beth Smythe, now 23 years old, live in Ashley's parents' beach house rent-free. Ashley is a gallery assistant who aspires to become an artist. Mary Beth, a gifted cook from Tennessee, works for a caterer while searching for a good teaching job. Though they both know what they want out of life,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow & Co. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrank, Dorothea Benton.
Summary: Miriam Elizabeth Swanson's middle-aged life shifts from Manhattan to Sullivans Island in South Carolina and, along the way, she learns more about life and herself than she realized she needed to know.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2007