Summary: Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. Blue River: Based on the novel by Ethan Canin, depicts the powerful events that unfold in a small Wisconsin town driving two teenage brothers apart when later in life one brother, now a homeless derelict, arrives at the home of his brother,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: In Brooklyn, Sam Fisher and her father Frank form a band together, cleverly titled "We Are Not a Band" based off Sam's sarcastic remark about their endeavor. Sam plays keyboard, while Frank strums the guitar. The two end up achieving unlikely success, but must ultimately decide whether hitting the big time is worth the cost of their close relationship, as well as Sam's plans to head off to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gunpowder & Sky 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEA
Summary: Lisa is the last person some would expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves,' but as general manager at Double Whammies, she has come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects her girls fiercely, but over the course of one trying day, her optimism is battered from every direction. Double Whammies sells a big, weird American fantasy,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUPHouston, Pam
Summary: "'How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us,' Pam Houston writes. On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, this beloved writer learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HOUSTON, PAM HOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B HOUSTON HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio HoustonHouston, Pam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: w.w. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HoustHouston, Pam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words Pub. 1996
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.23 HOUHouston, Pam.
Summary: A woman seeking a reprieve from a going-nowhere relationship finds solace in flying to exotic places around the world from Alaska to Bhutan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOUHouston, Pam.
Summary: "In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey," says the narrator in the collection's title story. "But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005