Foster, Brooke Lea
Summary: "In 1962, coed Heddy Winsome leaves her hardscrabble Irish Brooklyn neighborhood behind and ferries to glamorous Martha's Vineyard to nanny for one of the wealthiest families on the island. But as she grows enamored with the alluring and seemingly perfect young couple and chases after their two mischievous children, Heddy discovers that her academic scholarship at Wellesley has been revoked,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Foster 2020Summary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1. Hey-hey-hey-hey (Little Richard) -- Shirley (John Fred & the Playboys) -- Would you believe it, I have a cold (Huey Smith) -- Telling lies (Fats Domino) -- Someday (you'll want me) (Smiley Lewis) -- Nervous boogie (Paul Gayten) -- It must be jelly (Frankie Ford) -- A-tisket a-tasket (Joe Jones) -- I'm so blue (Jimmy Beasley) -- I know (Ray Washington) -- Honey, honey (The Supremes) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES HEAFossey, Brooke
Summary: "An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSSummary: Follow five carnival workers who are kidnapped and forced to participate in a violent game. The goal of the game is to survive twelve hours against a gang of crazy killer clowns. Rob Zombie's most brutal film to date!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 31Contents: Kiss you all over (Exile) (3:28) -- Stumblin' in (Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman) (3:28) -- Which way you goin' Billy? (The Poppy Family) (3:21) -- Last song (Edward Bear) (3:10) -- Oh, babe, what would you say? (Hurricane Smith) (3:24) -- Love really hurts without you (Billy Ocean) (2:59) -- Kung fu fighting (Carl Douglas) (3:14) -- Right back where we started from (Maxine Nightingale) (3:12) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARRosten, Leo
Summary: An updated version of the informal dictionary which offers the history and folklore behind Yiddish and Hebrew words as well as literal translations adds information on linguistic and cultural changes since Rosten's day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Rosten, Leo
Summary: More than a quarter of a century ago, Leo Rosten published the first comprehensive and hilariously entertaining lexicon of the colorful and deeply expressive language of Yiddish. With the recent renaissance of interest in Yiddish, and in keeping with a language that embodies the variety and vibrancy of life itself, this book brings Leo Rosten's masterful work up to date.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 422.4391 ROSReynolds, Emma
Summary: Emma Reynolds shines a spotlight on sixteen incredible youth activists from around the world who are fighting to protect the planet and all life on Earth. From Autumn Peltier campaigning for clean water to Edgar Edmund Tarimo turning plastic waste into building materials-and many more-these inspiring true stories highlight the importance of taking charge and creating change. Beautifully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 REYSummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYBrowne, Hester.
Summary: A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, Hester.
Summary: Hilarious and warmhearted, this "deliciously addictive" (Cosmopolitan) debut romantic comedy stars a woman who goes from doormat to diva when she sets up shop as the ultimate freelance girlfriend. Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets fired -- again...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: When T.S. is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his comic book-loving best friend Brodie, whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of Silent Bob and Jay, the ultimate delinquents, as they scheme to disrupt T.S.'s girlfriend's father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MALBrowne, Hester.
Summary: London gardener Amy Wilde falls for a stranger she meets at a friend's party and is astonished to learn he is a prince, a situation that leads to a scandalous engagement and Amy's doubts about whether she will enjoy life as a royal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, Hester.
Summary: Entreated by her grandmother to help reform playboy Prince Nicolas, girlfriend-for-hire Melissa is supported in her endeavor by her fiance, but finds the task more daunting than anticipated when her client changes her romantic perspectives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROBrowne, Hester.
Summary: With the Little Lady Agency doing a booming business back home, Melissa joins her dashing American boyfriend, Jonathan Riley, for an extended holiday in Manhattan. But she's soon out of her depth among Jonathan's hard-charging friends and his interfering ex-wife. And while she's all for shopping and sight-seeing, a covert work opportunity is an irresistible temptation -- a project that soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Canta pe' me / Ernesto de Curtis (3:26) -- Bring him home / Claude-Michel Schönberg (3:36) -- Che non finisca mai / Chris Broom (3:35) -- E lucevan le stelle / Giaccomo Puccini (3:22) -- Dolce vento / Chris Broom (2:21) -- Un giorno per noi / Nina Rota (4:19) -- Che gelida manina / Giaccomo Puccini (5:02) -- La nostra patria / Chris Broom (3:04) -- Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen (3:57) -- Ave Maria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL ANTSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: Collects twelve short stories about the Disney princesses, including Moana, Belle, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Snow White.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1: (We're gonna) Rock around the clock (Bill Haley and the Comets) (2:10) -- Sixteen candles (The Crests) (2:50) -- Runaway (Del Shannon) (2:18) -- Why do fools fall in love (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers) (2:17) -- That'll be the day (Buddy Holly) (2:15) -- Fanny Mae (Buster Brown) (2:55) -- At the hop (2:26) ; She's so fine (2:21) (Flash Cadilllac & The Continental Kids) -- The stroll...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1993