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City and town life City and town life Fiction City and town life United States City and town life United States Drama City and town life United States Fiction Mitford (N.C. : Imaginary place) Fiction National characteristics, American United States United States Description and travel United States Social conditions 1980-Geist, William.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 973.9240 GEIBalkan, Gabrielle
Summary: Illustrated maps of fifty American cities feature famous residents, and key cultural sites and are complemented by a guide to daily life in the city and numerous city facts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973 BALSummary: A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUMKaplan, Robert D.
Summary: "As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 KAPWalters, Wendy S.
Summary: "I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it." In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarabande Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 WALKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENSummary: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLAKaron, Jan
Summary: At last, Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, has married his talented and vivacious neighbor, Cynthia. Now, of course, they must face love's challenges: new sleeping arrangements for Father Tim's sofa-sized dog, Cynthia's urge to decorate the rectory Italian-villa-style, and the growing pains of the thrown-away boy who's become like a son to the rector.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 1996
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KARKidder, Tracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.423 KIDRawls, Thomas H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 RAWRouechGe, Berton
Contents: Stapleton, Nebraska -- Welch, West Virginia -- Hermann, Missouri -- Crystal City, Texas --Corydon, Indiana -- Pella, Iowa -- Hope, Arkansas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ROUEzell, Kyle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.79 EZEMcBain, Ed
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCBKleinknecht, William
Summary: Since Ronald Reagan left office--and particularly after his death--his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This carefully calibrated image is complete fiction, argues journalist William Kleinknecht. The Reagan presidency...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.927 KLEFrazier, Ian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.1 FRASummary: Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEYWoods, Sherryl.
Summary: Rich in narrative history and local color, A small town love story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 976 WOOKaron, Jan
Summary: In the small town of Mitford, rector Father Tim and his lovely wife Cynthia ponder their retirement plans, trying to raise their young charge, Dooley, and find Dooley's missing, abandoned siblings, while a brash mayoral candidate is calling for development and "progress."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 1997
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KARPindell, Terry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt and Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.929 PINDellamonica, A. M.
Summary: After accessing the magical power of the "vitagua" that leaks into her grandfather's house, Astrid and her friends unwittingly embark on a journey fraught with power, change, and a future too devastating to contemplate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELKaron, Jan
Summary: A novel on a small town in the heartland of America. A brash new mayoral candidate is calling for development, the Sweet Stuff Bakery may be closing, Father Tim, the Episcopalian rector and his vivacious wife are pondering retirement and someone is wheeling and dealing to turn Mitford's finest house into a spa. By the author of At Home in Mitford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1997
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KARSummary: An elderly Chinese man routs evil in a Western frontier town by setting up his circus for the townspeople. The various performers affect each of the circus' visitors in a different way, and in the end the unscrupulous citizen who dominates the town repents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2011
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SEVBanks, Russell
Summary: A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man’s character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals kidnap an elderly couple and begin blackmailing their grandson, demanding that he pay back what he owes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024