Summary: (A matter of life and death) British flyer Peter Carter survives a jump from his burning plane without parachute and wakes up in a nether world between Earth and the next life. He is informed that he should have died and must go to Heaven, where he is put on trial for his life. He falls in love with June, an American radio operator.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AgeSummary: Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFMichel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MichaelLivesey, Margot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Penguin 1990
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
Summary: Verona and Zeke fall instantly in love, but since they both have complications in their lives, Verona leaves less than twenty-four hours later.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
Summary: When her widower father drowns at sea, Gemma Hardy is taken from her native Iceland to Scotland to live with her kind uncle and his family. But the death of her doting guardian leaves Gemma under the care of her resentful aunt, and it soon becomes clear that she is nothing more than an unwelcome guest at Yew House. When she receives a scholarship to a private school, ten-year-old Gemma believes...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins US 2012
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Vorus, John.
Contents: Transmigrate -- Ripple effect -- Cove -- Tide pool -- Water cairn 1 -- Swampland dub -- Remote viewing -- Meridian -- Krill
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ambient Distillery
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC VORLivesey, Margot
Summary: The family life and security of a Boston optometrist is shattered by his wife's growing obsession with a beautiful thoroughbred horse and her dreams of becoming a serious competitor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
Summary: Overcoming a life of hardship and loneliness, Gemma Hardy, a brilliant and determined young woman, accepts a position as an au pair on the remote Orkney Islands where she faces her biggest challenge yet.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Livesey 2012Summary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWEDavis, Linsey
Summary: In rhyming text, illustrates through the concept of DNA how we are all part of the human race.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAVSummary: Tells how the Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, tried to use statistics to find better players without resorting to the larger budgets big-market teams were able to employ.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Moneyball 2012Livesey, Margot
Summary: "One September afternoon in 1999, teenagers Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan Lang are walking home from school when they discover a boy lying in a field, bloody and unconscious. Thanks to their intervention, the boy's life is saved. In the aftermath, all three siblings are irrevocably changed. Matthew, the oldest, becomes obsessed with tracking down the assailant, secretly searching the local town with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
Summary: A young banker finds a baby abandoned in a bus station men's room while on a trip to visit his troubled sister, not realizing how the child will change his life and the lives of others involved.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIVLivesey, Margot.
Summary: Following the acclaimed Criminals comes a spellbinding new novel that confirms Margot Livesey's place "right up there," as Liz Smith wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer , "in the realm of P. D. James and the esteemed Patricia Highsmith." What if -- by stroke of fortune -- you could start afresh, could wipe away that catastrophic blunder in your past? And to what lengths would you go to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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Davis, Linsey
Summary: Rhyming text encourages girls to join together in speaking up for themselves to achieve their dreams and care for the earth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2024
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Summary: Join intrepid chefs Michael Ryan and Luke Burgess on the best sort of culinary adventure - one that could happen only in Tokyo. From daybreak to late night, discover the creative people and compelling stories behind the restaurants, bars and tea houses of the world's most exciting food destination. This is a book as much for people travelling to the city as it is for those with an appreciation...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.2135 RYAWeissman, Michaele
Summary: "When the author's Latvia-born husband, John, opens a company marketing rye bread, the author embarks on a European journey in search of John's origins, excavating poignant stories of war, privation, and resilience"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEISSMAN, MICHAELE WEIHeyns, Michiel
Summary: ""Live all you can; it's a mistake not to." This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Heyns 2017Michaeli, Ethan
Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of contemporary Israel by award-winning author Ethan Michaeli, who documents the nation at its most volatile moment by weaving together the personal histories of Holocaust survivors, tech millionaires, Torah scholars, Ethiopian Prisoners of Zion, Russian emigres, West Bank settlers, and Palestinians"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021