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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATBuck, Pearl S
Summary: A slave bride of a Chinese laborer devotes herself to her husband's family, but when civil war in China brings wealth to the family, her happiness is endangered as her husband brings home a second wife. "This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCLevy, Joshua (Joshua S.)
Summary: Seventh-grader Jack and his classmates find themselves in hostile alien territory after Jack accidentally launches their rickety public schoolship light years away from home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVBuck, Pearl S
Summary: His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Guru Pitka is an American-born, Indian-raised guru who was taught to become an expert in matters of love. Now, a world famous spiritual advisor, he guides hundreds of followers. A way for Pitka to increase his popularity is by helping to heal the troubled relationship between Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Darren Roanoke and his wife, Prudence. Jane Bullard is the owner of the Maple Leafs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: FBI Agent Will Graham hunts the most notorious serial killers. He is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think, see, and feel like his prey. What he doesn't know is that his new partner has an extreme past. While pursuing a cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams Graham with a psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HANChan, Crystal S.
Summary: "Siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were planning to adopt an orphaned boy to help out around their farm, Green Gables - instead, they got Anne Shirley. A plucky redheaded girl with a vibrant imagination, Anne turns first Green Gables and then the rest of Prince Edward Island on its ear."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Manga Classics, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ANNSummary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MULCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: J DVD Movie Mulan 2013Danziger, Paula
Summary: Amber Brown and her parents go to the Poconos for two weeks with Amber's best friend, Justin, and his family.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE DANSummary: A young farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initially devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land and takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realizes that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: An American diplomat's career in China.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Day Co. 1973
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I can only write what I know, and I know nothing but China, having always lived there," wrote Pearl Buck. In The...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Pearl S. Buck's timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize-winning story of a farmer's journey through China in the 1920s. The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple's fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Open Road Media 2012
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Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: J. Day Co. 1956
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moyer Bell 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
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Publisher / Publication Date: The John Day company 1946
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TREBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: A recently discovered novel follows the gifted Randolph Colfax from birth to his early twenties as he searches for purpose and meaning in New York, England, Paris, and on his mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ingram Pub Services 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUCBuck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker)
Summary: Wang Lang, a simple peasant farmer, takes as a wife a battered slave girl who becomes an indomitable, loyal woman. Working the land together, they prosper and increase their holdings, yet Wang eventually betrays his family and neglects the earth he had worshipped.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 1958
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Buck 1958Danziger, Paula
Summary: When the unconventional English teacher who helped her conquer many of her feelings of insecurity is fired, thirteen-year-old Marcy Lewis uses her new found courage to campaign for the teacher's reinstatement.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1974
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DANDanziger, Paula
Summary: Unlike her best friend Justin, Amber Brown loves to measure time and hopes to receive a watch on her seventh birthday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2001