Summary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAI

Grisham, John.

Summary: Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRI

Summary: A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Mi

Summary: Archie's brother Paul returns to Glenbogle and is enlisted into helping to run the estate. Although this brings him into conflict with Archie and Lexie, it also allows Archie to think about his role and the world beyond Glenbogle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MON

Summary: Infused with spirituals, folk songs, blues, and jazz, Hallelujah follows the fortunes of Zeke, a poor cotton farmer. Love, loss, passion, redemption, make this cinematic milestone the first all-black feature from a major studio.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAL

Summary: Fact-based film about Gerry Conlon, a young Irish punk who is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time and forced to confess to a terrorist bombing. He and his father, along with friends of Gerry, are found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. There, his father shows his true strength, and Gerry works to prove their innocence and clear his father's name.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 1998

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE In RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In 1998

Everhart, Donna

Summary: 1950s, North Carolina. Martha 'Sonny' Creech, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their cotton farm, but only Sonny loves the rich, dark earth the way her father does. When a tragic accident claims his life, her stricken family struggles to fend off ruin. When Frank Fowler, their rich, reclusive neighbor, offers to help finance that year's cotton crop, Sonny is sure the man has...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EVE

Summary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD De

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007

Summary: "Against all odds, the students at Dominguez High School set out to put on the school's first theatrical production in more than 20 years. But what does Thornton Wilder's famous play about life in rural Grover's Corners have to do with Compton, California? [This film] follows the students on their discovery of the power of art and the human spirit"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2003

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OT

Agee, James

Summary: Provides an unsparing record of three families surviving under the harsh conditions of Depression-era poverty in 1936 rural Alabama.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1062 AGE

Berry, Steve

Summary: After former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone witnesses the theft of one of the seven precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ, he learns from his old boss, Stephanie Nelle, that a private auction is about to be held where incriminating information on the president of Poland will be offered to the highest bidder. The price of admission is one of the relics, so Malone is...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2020

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

Smarsh, Sarah

Summary: During Smarsh's turbulent childhood in Kansas in the '80s and '90s, the forces of cyclical poverty and the country's changing economic policies solidified her family's place among the working poor. Her personal history affirms the corrosive impact intergenerational poverty can have on individuals, families, and communities. Combining memoir with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMARSH, SARAH SMA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B SMARSH SMA

Summary: The story of Jean Cadoret, a man who inherits a farm from his mother and foolishly hopes to become a gentleman farmer. But even before he arrives, his powerful neighbor is plotting to steal his land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JEA

Summary: The story of a master chef and his three adult daughters, all of whom are seeking love and happiness in different ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAT

Berry, Steve

Summary: Former Justice Department Agent Cotton Malone learns of a private auction for incriminating information about Poland's president. The price of admittance is one of the precious relics of the Arma Christi, the weapons of Christ. Malone steals the Holy Lance, a thousand-year-old spear sacred to both Christians and the Polish people, and then attends the auction. But things go awry, and Malone is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: "The fortunes of the MacDonalds have always been up and down, but now Paul, Archie's brother, is newly installed as master of Glenbogle. Can this town come to terms with the new monarch?"

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MON

Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PUR

Summary: Sweet but lonesome Olof lives by himself on his family's farm after the death of his mother. Unable to read or write, he is forced to take people on trust. Olof must depend upon his younger friend Erik to help him with the farm work. Then one day, out of the blue, Olof places a personal ad in the paper. The ad attracts Ellen, a beautiful well-heeled city woman. Erik, also taken with Ellen, is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UND

Summary: Marshal Matt Dillon, sawbones Doc Adams, saloonkeeper Kitty Russell and deputy Chester B. Goode keep the peace in the roughest, toughest town of the American West: Dodge City, Kansas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1957

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUN

Summary: Recapture the spirit of the American frontier with plain-talking Marshal Matt Dillon, kindly saloon-keeper Miss Kitty, irascible Doc Adams and tender-hearted but gullible Deputy Chester Goode as they uphold the law and bring respectability to the rough and tough town of Dodge City, Kansas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 1956

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GUN

Summary: An epic adaptation of Bulwer-Lytton's novel about the final hours of residents of Pompeii before the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LAS

Summary: After the death of his grandfather, Vasil wishes the neighboring farmers to share the use of a tractor purchased by the village council. Struggling against superstition, rich landowners and nature itself, he becomes the victim of a tragic murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAR

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD F

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Fantastic 2010

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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FAN