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Adultery Fiction Boston (Mass.) History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction Illegitimate children Fiction Prynne, Hester (Fictitious character) Fiction Psychological fiction Puritans Fiction Puritans Massachusetts Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Women immigrants Fiction Women Massachusetts FictionSummary: Marguerite Duras had already established herself as one of the major figures of postwar French literature when she launched an equally fascinating and unclassifiable career in cinema, translating her elliptical, experimental style to the screen through the unprecedented fusion of hypnotic, highly stylized imagery and radically disjunctive sound. Boldly reimagining the possibilities of dialogue,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN INDSummary: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOLWest, Nathanael
Summary: A collection of six works by Nathanael West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWest, Nathanael
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Laughlin 1962
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESWilliams, Stonie
Summary: "Tilly, one of the newest super-powered people to join the Coalition of Heroes, is doing her best to navigate the dizzying world of superheroes. Working with her idols should be a dream come true, but when she learns the truth, Tilly's dream quickly becomes a nightmare. Now, Tilly has to make a choice - Get in line and stand with her heroes, or take a stand and risk becoming something more......
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Cave 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 WILStonex, Emma
Summary: "Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStoner, Sherri
Summary: While visiting Madrid, Mickey and the Roadster Racers find themselves chased by a bull.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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Summary: Readers will be enchanted by the zany delights in this colorful book. This entertaining narrative is sure to charm emerging readers, educating them about the concept of opposites. Readers will learn to identify opposites including big and small, messy and neat, and hot and cold, as they explore Monster Town. Colorful illustrations bring the story to life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUTStoner, Sherri
Summary: Mickey and the Roadster Racers head to Madrid, Spain for some racing and sightseeing fun. But when a baby bull begins to chase them around town, their perfecto vacation starts to crumble!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWBrown, Nathaniel
Summary: After a man is shot while dealing drugs in Tokyo, his spirit journeys through an unfamiliar world and tries to protect his sister, who is working as a stripper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE ENTHawthorne, Nathaniel
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1994
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynn, a young woman in Puritan Massachusetts, publicly bears the burden of her sin of adultery while her husband secretly exacts his revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HawHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Travel back to Boston, Massachusetts as it existed in the 1642 for this classic tale of Puritanical Romance and sin. Meet Hester Prynne, who has a baby from an adulterous affair, and must wear a scarlet A on her dress to represent her shameful act. She refuses to name the father, so her long-lost husband sets out to expose her lover. This classic tale is a must-read for everyone as it explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th century Boston, The scarlet letter describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A" for adulteress embroidered on her dress.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 1981
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWLachenmeyer, Nathaniel
Summary: A lighthouse keeper carves a wooden merganser duck that may be just a bit too lifelike to share his home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mitten Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC LacheHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hephzibah tries to shelter her brother from the evil of Judge Pyncheon in this novel set in Massachusetts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1993
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HAWHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Hester Prynne and her lover feel the effects of sin in Puritan New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD HAWSummary: A naive young set designer seeks work in Tinseltown and falls in love with a wannabe actress who lives with her alcholic father, a former vaudevillian entertainer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYHawthorne, Nathaniel
Summary: Boston 1642: Imprisoned for the crime of adultery, young wife Hester Prynne is condemned on her release to bear a public display of her shame - a scarlet letter 'A' stitched upon her dress. For the sake of her baby daughter Pearl, the product of her illicit liaison, she determines to weather the scorn of her Puritan community with defiance and dignity. Meanwhile, her husband is resolved to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hawthorne 2015Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Summary: A passionate young woman, her cowardly lover, and her aging, vengeful husband are the central characters in this stark drama of the conflict between passion and convention in the harsh world of seventeenth-century Boston. Tremendously moving and rich in psychological insight, this tragic novel of sin and redemption addresses our Puritan past. Depicting the struggle between mind and heart,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin USA, Inc. 2009
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Summary: New Orleans, a century ago: a city determined to reshape its destiny and, with it, the nation's. Downtown, a new American music is born. In Storyville, prostitution is outlawed and the police retake the streets with maximum violence. In the Ninth Ward, laborers break ground on a gigantic canal that will split the city, a work of staggering human ingenuity intended to restore New Orleans's faded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RICAlmhjell, Tone
Summary: After a mysterious key arrives for her, eleven-year-old Lin Rosenquist finds a crack in the cellar, a gate to the world of Sylver. This frozen realm is the home of every dead animal that ever loved a child. Lin is reunited with Rufus, thepet she buried under the rosebush and together they must find the missing Winter Prince in order to save Sylver from destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: When the weather stops a young boy from going to the beach, he stays home and reads books with his mother and grandmother instead. Even his dog joins in on the fun! With brightly colored illustrations that encourage readers to follow along and join this boy s fun-filled day, this story is sure to excite children about the concept of reading books.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2018