Summary: A bemused would-be poet gets entangled with an unctuous cemetery entrepreneur, a mom-obsessed mortician and other bizarre characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A young girl enjoys the blessings, foods, and gifts of Hanukkah spent with her family, but on the last night there is no present for her to unwrap.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kar-Ben Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE EVESummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TINSummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: In Dhadkan (Heart beat), Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) is forced by her parents to marry a man they choose rather than Dev (Sunil Shetty), an illegitimate child. Anjali's marriage to Ram (Akshay Kumar) gets off to a disastrous start, as Anjali refuses to acknowledge Ram as her husband. But despite herself Anjali is drawn into Ram's family's intrigue, overcomes her memory of Dev, and gradually comes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DHASummary: A demented preacher stalks two young children, a brother and sister, because he is certain they know where their late bank-robbing father hid his money. Graced by images of eerie beauty and a sneaky sense of humor, this is an ethereal, expressionistic American classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. When the drifter and the owner's voluptuous wife fall in love, they plot to kill her husband and run away together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY POSSawyer, Ruth
Summary: Liberated for a year from her parents' restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SAWSawyer, Ruth
Summary: The discoveries and adventures of ten-year-old Lucinda, who spends a wonderful year exploring the New York City of the 1890's.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1986
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION SAWToynton, Evelyn
Summary: "As an American woman enamored of England becomes increasingly close to a dysfunctional aristocratic family, she discovers the land of Keats, Shelley, and Byron isn't as romantic as she had imagined. After the sudden death of her husband, Annie Devereauxflees to England, the site of her absent father's lifelong fantasies. A chance encounter on one of her last nights in London leads Annie to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOYHawker, Libbie
Summary: "Wyoming, 1870. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hawker 2019Hood, Evelyn.
Summary: Love does not run smoothly in Prior's Ford as Alison Greenless chases farmer Ewan McNair, the return of a famous actress disrupts her daughter's life, and Malcolm Finlay is turning the heads of every woman in the village.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOJordan, Evelyn
Summary: When the man who left her behind returns home years later to make amends and win her back, single mother and bakery owner Romey Michaels finds the secrets and painful memories of her past come rushing back.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alcove Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JORWaugh, Evelyn
Summary: Captain Charles Ryder returns to the country estate of Brideshead. There he indulges in a sentimental journey that takes him back twenty years to his schoolmates at Oxford and to his seduction by the Marchmains.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1979
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUWaugh, Evelyn
Summary: When Oxford undergraduate Charles Ryder meets the charismatic Sebastian Flyte it is the beginning of a devoted friendship, until Sebastian sinks deep into alcoholism and distances himself from those he loves. Charles escapes to Paris to train as an artist and ends up in an unhappy marriage. A chance reunion with Sebastian's sister Julia revives his love of life as they embark on an affair, only...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WAUWaugh, Evelyn
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUWaugh, Evelyn
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAUHood, Evelyn.
Summary: "Famous cookery writer Laura Tyler arrives in Prior's Ford determined to become immersed in village life--and the village drama group's forthcoming production of The Importance of Being Earnest offers her the perfect opportunity. It's just a pity that her uptight husband lacks her enthusiasm. But Laura has cause to regret her involvement when murder calls a halt to rehearsals of the play. And...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOORichardson, Evelyn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 1999