Summary: The story of Liam, a seven-year-old boy growing up in Liverpool during the 1930s. As he prepares for his First Communion, young Liam tries to make sense of the complex and unsettled world around him, a world that is about to change forever due to economic, political and social upheaval.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIASummary: Terence Davies lifts viewers up into the world of fantasy and collective emotion as he presents popular and classical music, voices, radio clips, and a powerful poignant voiceover of his birthplace Liverpool. Includes themes such as Catholicism, homosexuality, violence, death, loss, the glory of cinema, outsiderness, and childhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OFEdwards, Martin
Summary: Harry Devlin receives a fake newspaper notice announcing his death on Midsummer's Eve. Subsequent threatening messages lead him to take the less-than-a-week deadline seriously.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poison Pen Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWKelly, Julia
Summary: "Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what's expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous Jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELFrancis, June
Summary: "It's 1959.Her modelling career in tatters and her long-term relationship with her sailor boyfriend at an end, nineteen-year-old Maggie Gregory returns to her family in Liverpool to lick her wounds and decide what to do with the rest of her life. A chance encounter with a handsome stranger offers the possibility of new romance. But is the man who gives his name as Tim Murphy really all he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House Publishers Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRABennett, Roger
Summary: "One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply faced Jewish boy in 1980's Liverpool to become the quintessential Englishman in New York"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BENNETT, ROGER BENEdwards, Martin
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDWSummary: Jude is a young dockworker from Liverpool who travels to find his estranged father in America. He is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Lucy is a rich and sheltered American girl who Jude falls in love with. Lucy joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACRLiverpool Scene (Musical group)
Contents: Disc 1: Love is -- Batpoem -- Son, son -- Tramcar to Frankenstein -- The woo woo -- Burdock River run -- Happy burial blues -- Universes -- I'm just a simple boy -- Baby -- Percy Parslow's hamster farm -- Bomb commercials -- Elsie Straws saga -- Wildwest -- Colours -- Gliders, parks -- Love story.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Esoteric Recordings 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LIVSummary: Set in Liverpool in 1955, the adolescent years of John Lennon are chronicled. Raised by his Aunt Mimi, his world is turned inside-out when his free spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds that release pain, anger, frustration, and his artistry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NOWMelville, Herman
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELSummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research 1999
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3 EllioHughes, Shirley
Summary: In 1930s Liverpool, England, Bronwen and Dylan live with their widowed mother, who works long hours doing other people's washing, and even though she sometimes must leave the children alone in the house, she cautions them not to speak to the O'Rileys next door, who go to a different church.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC HUGRobson, Jennifer
Summary: "After four years as a military nurse, Charlotte Brown is ready to leave behind the devastation of the Great War. The daughter of a vicar, she has always been determined to dedicate her life to helping others. Moving to busy Liverpool, she throws herself into her work with those most in need, only tearing herself away for the lively dinners she enjoys with the women at her boarding house. Just...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015