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Summary: A Nigerian villager is eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer, in the hopes that it will benefit him in the future. Instead, his ambition leads to his tragic downfall. Mister Johnson, based on a 1939 novel by Joyce Cary, is a graceful, heartfelt drama about the limits of idealism, affectingly acted and handsomely shot.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIS

Burrows, Mathew.

Summary: "Twenty-five years ago when Mathew Burrows went to work for the CIA as an intelligence analyst, the world seemed frozen. Then came the fall of the Berlin Wall and the implosion of the Soviet Union; suddenly, unpredictability became a universal theme and foresight was critical. For the past decade, Burrows has overseen the creation of the Global Trends report--the key futurist guide for the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BUR

Burrows, James

Summary: "From the director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, and Will & Grace comes an insightful and nostalgic memoir that offers a bounty of behind-the-scenes moments from our favorite shows, peeling away the layers behind how a successful sitcom comes together--and stays that way. In Directed by James Burrows, the legendary talent not only provides backstories into the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURROWS, JAMES BUR

Smith & Burrows

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SMI

Burrows, Larry.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 959.7043 BUR

Burrows, Terry

Summary: Easy to understand and use, this excellent guide to playing the ukulele has everything you need to get started. Beginning with a brief introduction descrbing what the ukulele is and how it evolved, the book takes you through the basics of understanding the instrument, how to create chords and play simple melodies, how to learn different styles of ukulele music from around the globe and how to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sirius Publishing, a division of Arcturus Publishing Limited 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8 BUR

Burrowes, Grace

Summary: Noah Winters, Duke of Anselm, exercises the pragmatism for which he's infamous when his preferred choice of bride cries off, and her companion, Lady Thea Collins, becomes his next choice for his duchess. Lady Thea's mature, sensible and even rather attractive-what could possibly go wrong? As a lady fallen on hard times, Thea doesn't expect tender sentiments from His Grace, but she does wish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015

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Burrowes, Susan

Summary: "Fifteen-year-old Hannah was a privileged young girl with a promising future, but that didn't stop her from sliding into an abyss of sex, drugs, alcohol, and other high-risk behaviors. Off the Rails narrates Hannah's sudden decline and subsequent treatment through the raw, honest, compelling voices of Hannah and her shocked and desperate mother--each one telling her side of the story. Fearing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BUR

Burrowes, Grace.

Summary: An earl who can't be bribed... Gayle Windham, earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper... A lady who can't be protected... Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2010

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Burrowes, Grace.

Summary: A Regency era battle of wits, wills, and the sexes, with a wily old duke determined to see the succession of his line secured, and his three headstrong sons equally determined to resist the bonds of matrimony. THE HEIR: The Earl of Wyndham, weighed down by responsibilities, is determined to avoid the summer rounds of matchmaking mamas, so he stays in his London townhouse for the summer. There...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012

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Barrows, Annie.

Summary: Bean's older sister, Nancy, is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp and Bean can't go. So Bean and Ivy make their own camp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAR

Barrows, Annie.

Summary: When Bean's parents leave her in the care of her older sister Nancy for the afternoon, she enlists her neighbor and best friend Ivy to come over and teach Nancy how to be a really good babysitter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2008

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC Bar

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Ivy Barrows

Burrowes, Grace

Summary: Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUR

Terenzio, RoseMarie.

Summary: A former personal assistant to John F. Kennedy, Jr. shares the story of their professional relationship and close friendship, describing how she landed her job under less-than-ideal circumstances, Kennedy's political beliefs, and his untimely death.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, JOHN F TER

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.922 TER

Burrowes, Grace.

Summary: "Gayle Windham, Earl of Westhaven, is the first legitimate son and heir to the Duke of Moreland. To escape his father's inexorable pressure to marry, he decides to spend the summer at his townhouse in London, where he finds himself intrigued by the secretive ways of his beautiful housekeeper... Anna Seaton is a beautiful, talented, educated woman, which is why it is so puzzling to Gayle Windham...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Casablanca 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Burrowes, Grace.

Summary: All is fair in love and court... Dunstan Cromarty is practicing law far from his native Scotland, and battles his personal loneliness with professional zeal . On a lucrative and fractious divorce case, he meets his match in a sharp-witted and stunningly beautiful adversary ...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014

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Burrowes, Grace

Summary: Named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2012 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes keeps winning reader awards for her gorgeously imagined books. If you're already a fan, you'll devour her new characters and if you haven't yet discovered the richly drawn worlds of Grace Burrowes, you're in for a treat....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012

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Burrowes, Grace

Summary: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident-and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014

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Burrowes, Grace.

Summary: Forced to marry for money to save the family estate, the Earl of Balfour devises a strategy to win the heart of Genie Daniels, a rich English heiress, until he meets her poor cousin Augusta, forcing him to choose between family duty and love.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Burrows, Edwin G.

Summary: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown, and just over 6,800 died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons--more than twice the number to die on the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.371 BUR

Burrows, William E.

Summary: Unknown to the public and cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the United States flew missions against the Communist bloc almost continuously during the Cold War in a desperate effort to collect intelligence and find targets for all-out nuclear war. The only hint of the relentless, clandestine operations came when one of the planes was shot down. Many of the air force and navy flyers were killed on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 BUR

Burroway, Janet.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Burrows, Russell (Russell E.)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Superior Heartland 1992

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.3 BUR

Turke, Rosemarie Lengsfeld

Summary: "Set against a backdrop of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the reign of Nazi Germany, and the entire course of World War II in Europe, American Shoes recounts the tumultuous childhood of a young American girl and her family trapped within a country that turned against itself, where human decency eroded and then vaporized. Forced to grow up in the midst of endemic fear stoked by a ravenous madman,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TUR
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 TUR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: YA 940.53 TUR

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