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Summary: 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 KAT

Summary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHA

Chadwick, Elizabeth.

Summary: Fictionalizes the life of William Marshal, who is appointed tutor to Prince Henry, heir to the throne, after he rescues the queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, but William quickly learns of the dangers that are attached to his reward.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Whyte, Jack

Summary: "Some men strive for greatness. And some men find themselves thrust into the role of their nation's saviors. Such are the two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic, commoner in medieval British history; the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHY

Summary: A dramatization of Shakespeare's play, the story of a rebellion against the corrupt Richard II.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Ambrose Video Pub. 2004

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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS RIC

Summary: A retelling of one of the most notorious Tinseltown legends to circulate at the height of the studio era. In November 1924, a mysterious Hollywood death occurred aboard media mogul William Randolph Hearst's yacht. Included among the famous guests that weekend were Charlie Chaplin, starlet Marion Davies, the studio system creator and producer Thomas Ince, and feared gossip columnist, Louella...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY Cat

Maxwell, Robin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005

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Shaara, Jeff

Summary: This concluding novel of Shaara's epic Civil War tetralogy tells the dramatic story of the final eight months of battle from multiple perspectives: the commanders in their tents making plans for total victory, as well as the ordinary foot soldiers and cavalrymen who carried out their orders until the last alarum sounded. Through William Tecumseh Sherman's eyes, we gain insight into the mind of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP Fiction Shaara 2015

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

Heckart, Eileen

Summary: A mother suspects that her young daughter is a killer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BAD

Peck, Richard

Summary: In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2001

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Peck 2001

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and continued in A Chain of Thunder and The Smoke at Dawn. November 1864: As the Civil War rolls into its fourth bloody year, the tide has turned decidedly in favor of the Union. A grateful Abraham Lincoln responds to Ulysses S. Grant's successes by...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Shaara 2015

Jakes, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAK

Albert, Susan Wittig

Summary: During World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower's wife Mamie knew the gossip: Ike was involved with another woman; his letters home were only tepidly reassuring. The relationship between Eisenhower and his driver/aide Kay Summersby moved from England to North Africa and then throughout Europe before and after the Normandy landing. At the end of the war, Ike is faced with the heart-wrenching...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Persevero Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALB

Bird, Sarah

Summary: "The compelling, hidden story of Cathy Williams, a former slave and the first woman to ever serve in the US Army "Here's the first thing you need to know about Miss Cathy Williams: I am the daughter of a daughter of a queen and my Mama never let me forget it." Missouri, 1864 Powerful, epic, and compelling, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen shines light on a nearly forgotten figure in history....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BIR

Summary: A gambler on the run meets and marries a librarian after she wins a coin toss.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NO

Penman, Sharon Kay.

Summary: Richard, the second surviving son of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, inherits the throne from his brother, before embarking on the Third Crusade, a conflict that is complicated by the schemes of his usurping brother, John.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PEN

Gregory, Philippa

Summary: When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride, the oldest princess, Margaret takes her measure. With one look, each knows the other for a rival, an ally, a pawn, destined with Margaret's younger sister Mary to a sisterhood unique in the world. The three sisters will become the queens of England, Scotland, and France. United by family loyalties and affections, the three...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRE

Hooper, Judith

Summary: "Arm yourself against my dawn, which may at any moment cast you and Harry into obscurity, Alice James writes her brother William in 1891. In Judith Hooper's magnificent book, zingers such as this fly back and forth between the endlessly articulate and letter-writing Jameses, all of whom are geniuses at gossiping. And the James family did, in fact, know everyone intellectually important on both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOO

Paul, Gill

Summary: New York City 1921: The war is over, fashions are daring, and bootleg liquor is abundant. Here four extraordinary women form a bridge group that grows into a firm friendship. Dorothy Parker: renowned wit, member of the Algonquin Round Table, and more fragile than she seems. Jane Grant: first female reporter for the New York Times, and determined to launch a new magazine she calls The New...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAU

Blondell, Joan

Summary: An ambitious man working as part of a surreal and disturbing traveling carnival sets out to become a mentalist and take over the job of someone else in the sideshow.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2021

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIG

Smith, Zadie

Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Summary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOH

Shaara, Jeff

Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHA

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