Ferber, Edna
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc. 1941
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Summary: A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Co. 1952
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Contents: Roast beef, medium -- Representing T. A. Buck -- Chickens -- His mother's son -- Pink tights and ginghams -- Simply skirts -- Underneath the high-cut vest -- Catching up with Christmas -- Knee-deep in knickers -- In the absence of the agent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Summary: Narrative of the Hawks-Ravenal family on the Mississippi, in "Cotton Blossom", their floating palace theater.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Buccaneer Books 1926
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FERFerber, Edna
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1926
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FERSummary: A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DINSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Bick Benedict, his society-gilded wife and three generations of land-rich Texas sons and daughters love, swagger, connive and clash in a monumental drama of family strife, racial bigotry and conflict between cattle barons and newly-rich oil tycoons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD GIASummary: "Lumberman Barney Glasgow abandons saloon girl Lotta to marry a timber heiress ... only to fall for Lotta's beautiful daughter twenty years later. But this time, Barney as a rival for the young woman's love: his own son!" -- Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMSummary: The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAKaufman, George S. (George Simon)
Summary: Collects plays written by George Kaufman in collaboration with other writers, including "Dinner at Eight," "Animal Crackers," "Stage Door," and "You Can't Take It With You."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004