Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSlaughter, Karin
Summary: Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life, until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to save a broken young woman who has been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An Indian woman's visions and a geologist's investigation of an earthquake come together to reveal secrets about the atrocities that took place at a Native American boarding school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLDLawton, Wendy.
Summary: Follows the experiences of sixteen-year-old Eliza Shirley, who traveled from England to the United States in 1879 to pioneer the work of the Salvation Army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWLawton, Wendy.
Summary: Imagines the search for faith experienced by the ten-year-old blind daughter of John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progess," during her father's imprisonment for preaching found contrary to the edicts of the Church of England.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 2002
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Summary: "A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history. Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 0000
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Summary: Chasing a draft dodger in the turbulent summer of 1969, private eye Turner Raines is embroiled in the death of his oldest friend, whose demise is overshadowed by unresolved family dynamics and secrets from Vietnam.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2014
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Summary: Gwen, an aspiring witch, and her two monster best friends try to have a fun-filled Halloween, but must contend with a local kid obsessed with hunting the supernatural.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARLawton, John
Summary: When an old love returns into Troy's life, the Scotland Yard investigator finds himself embroiled in American politics when he agrees to help his old lover, who is currently the wife of a presidential candidate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2005
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Summary: Having shot someone in what he believed was self-defense in the chaos of 1963 Berlin, Wilderness finds himself locked up with little chance of escape. But an official pardon through his father-in-law Burne-Jones, a senior agent at MI6, means he is free to go -- although forever in Burne-Jones's service. His newest operation will take him back to Berlin, which is now the dividing line between...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Pocahontas is a curious girl, exploring every inlet and pool along the Tidewater lands of her people. After encountering the landing of the colorless strangers, she becomes friends with the one named John Smith. She is even willing to risk her life to save his."--cover, p.4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2008
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Summary: Forbidden, passionate and all-encompassing, Margo and Richard's love affair was the stuff of legend--but, ultimately, doomed. When Richard walked out, Margo locked herself away, leaving her three daughters, Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha, to run wild. Years later, charismatic Margo entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of Richard and her painful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOLanton, Sandy
Summary: Being the youngest in her family means that Hannah cannot do many things, which makes her unhappy, until finally, at Passover, there is a special duty only she can perform.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE LANLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1995
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Summary: A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2010
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Summary: While making the pilgrimage from Holland to America in 1620 with other English Separatists, teenaged Mary Chilton endures many hardships that test her faith in God.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Press 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC LAWLawton, Wendy.
Summary: When thirteen-year-old Olive Oatman's wagon train is raided by outlaw Indians, she and her sister are captured, only to be ransomed later by a band of Mohaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moody Publishers 2003
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Summary: Presents the adventures of a happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving narwhal and a cynical, no-nonsense jellyfish as they forge an unlikely friendship and explore the ocean together.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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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Summary: "It is 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard, newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Britain, is not looking forward to a Continental trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod was too vain to celebrate beingfifty so instead takes his entire family on "the Grand Tour" for his fifty-first birthday: Paris, Siena, Florence, Vienna, Amsterdam....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
Summary: England in 1963 is a country set to explode. The habits of the war baby youth-sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll-are driving the old guard mad, and when a scandal reminiscent of the infamous Profumo affair rocks London, they fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAWLawton, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2001