Dunwell, Frances F.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.73 DUNFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Contents: The offshore pirate -- The ice palace -- Head and shoulders -- The cut-glass bowl -- Bernice bobs her hair -- Benediction -- Dalrymple goes wrong -- The four fists.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audiobooks 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITDowell, Frances O'Roark
Summary: "Sam the Man is not a vegetable man. But when a school project has him paired up with the worst of all the vegetables -- the rutabaga-- he soon will learn that it's not half bad. And as he grows fond of his new little friend, Sam the Man will have to comeup with plan on how to keep him happy before he rots!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DOWDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOWDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOWDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOWDowell, Frances O'Roark.
Summary: Bullied by two mean girls in her sixth-grade class, a lonely, plump girl gains self-confidence and makes new friends after a mysterious fox gently bites her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC DOWFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: "It was Gatsby that solidified his reputation as the chronicler of the Jazz Age and established him as one of the leading American novelists of his generation. Perhaps no other novel of the twentieth century makes a greater claim to being our Great American Novel--for its poetic prose, its exploration of the broad, intertwined themes of money, class, and American optimism (Daisy Buchanan's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: A novel of sordid living and violent death in Long Island society of the 1920's. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, agent and friends and associates.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Scribner 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: The 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in a Los Angeles hotel kitchen. We see Kennedy's acceptance speech after winning the California Democratic presidential primary, his death at the hands of gunman Sirhan Sirhan, and the chaos and despair that ensued. The people at the hotel don't know what is coming. Our grief at hearing RFK's own words, so eloquent, so hopeful and inspiring. Watch the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOBFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FISHER, M.F.K. FISSummary: I walked with a zombie (69 mins.): A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis. -- The body snatcher (77 mins.): A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ISummary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: On Long Island in the early 1920s the mysterious Jay Gatsby tries to rekindle his romance with Daisy, a young woman who has married another man, the wealthy and cruel Tom Buchanan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GREWaal, F. B. M. de (Frans B. M.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.88 WAAFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
Contents: Serve it forth.--Consider the oyster.--How to cook a wolf.--The gastronomical me.--An alphabet for gourmets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1976
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Contents: Map of another town -- A considerable town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 944.91 FISFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021