Summary: A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INSummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CANSummary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FILHumphreys, Josephine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHumphreys, Sara.
Summary: SHE SHOULD BE SEEN, BUT NEVER TOUCHED... Kerry Smithson's modeling career ensures that she will be admired from afar, which is essential since mere human touch sparks blinding pain and terrifying visions. EVERY GOOD MODEL NEEDS A HEAVENLY BODYGUARD... Dante Coltari is hired to protect Kerry from those who know who she is-or more importantly what she is-and want her dead because of it. Nothing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012
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Humphreys, Helen
Summary: The story of James, a pilot struggling to survive in a German POW camp, his young war-bride, Rose, back in England trying to make sense of her life, and his sister, whose own story is also rewritten by the tragedies of WWII.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUMHumphreys, Sara.
Summary: Vampires are nothing but trouble... As far as beautiful vampire Sadie Pemberton is concerned, werewolves shouldn't be sticking their noses into New York's supernatural politics. They don't know jack about running a city-not even that hot-as-sin new vampire-werewolf liaison who's just arrived in town. Werewolves are too sexy for their own good... The last thing Killian Bane wanted was to end up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015
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Grahame, Kenneth
Summary: A boy who has befriended a kindly, peaceful dragon must convince the fearful villagers and St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern while arranging for the fight they long to see.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: "Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The adventures of a group of animals who live in the English countryside--bashful Mole, boastful Toad, practical Badger and world-wise Rat.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner's 1954
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC GRASummary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BESGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The boy who finds the dragon in the cave knows it is a kindly, harmless one, but how can he convince the frightened villagers and, especially, St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston 1983
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Summary: An Indian boy's quest for the secret of happiness ends with the discovery that the secret lies within us all. But to arrive at this conclusion the boy must undergo many trials and ward off temptation to abandon spiritualism for materialism.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amber-Allen Pub. 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHOPumphrey, Jarrett
Summary: "On a small family farm, an old truck falls into disrepair and lies nearly forgotten, except by the family's daughter. The truck is been part of her daydreams as she grows up and develops strength and independence. As an industrious young woman, she pulls the rusted and overgrown vehicle from its almost-grave and restores it"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Pumphrey 2020Pumphrey, Jarrett
Summary: Rat, Squirrel, Rabbit, and Mouse want to cross the bayou, but next to the log they are considering as a bridge is a sneaky tail, which may be attached to someone dangerous--each of the four approach the problem with a different strategy, with varying results.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE PUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PUMHawksley, Humphrey.
Summary: "Instructed to guide in a speed boat crossing from Russia in the Bering Strait, special forces Major Rake Ozenna watches in horror as the operation culminates in a fatal firefight - and the loss of vital intelligence of a deadly new weapon. A weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon that, if it were unleashed, would cripple civilization as we know it. But who sabotaged the mission? Who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRAGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ariel Books : Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1980
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Classic GrahameHumphrey, Anna
Summary: When Daniel Misumi moves into a new home, far away from his old friends, he discovers a tiny talking bat in his room who also finds himself far from the home that he knew.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2018
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUMHumphrey, Anna
Summary: Daniel is not so sure about going to camp. There will be bugs. And uncomfortable beds. And leeches! Megabat can't WAIT to go to camp! There will be so much smooshfruit, and he loves a good sing-along. Daniel starts to think camp isn't so bad. He's made friends, and his bed isn't THAT uncomfortable. Megabat has made a new friend too. But his new friend wants him to go flying to spooky caves. And...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra 2020