Summary: In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EDU

Summary: Lonely widow Emmi Kurowski meets Arab worker Ali in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love--to their own surprise, and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. An emotional power that reflects the ethnic tensions within German society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALI

Summary: The film follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow and her handsome and earthy younger gardener. After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ALL

Summary: When a 30-something fashion photographer agrees to a date with a precocious teenager, he gets far more than he bargained for.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HAR

Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRE

Summary: Charade (1963) is comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charade 2001

Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA

Summary: This sparkling British comedy follows a May-December romance between free spirit Lauren and young-at-heart divorced grandfather Ed. The age gap isn't Lauren and Ed's only challenge: they face the disapproval of Lauren's parents, who are practically Ed's contemporaries, and her envious older sister, who's got a chaotic family of her own. On the other side, they endure Ed's down-on-his-luck,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YOU

Summary: Marina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF FAN

Austin, Finola

Summary: "Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall - has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AUS

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC AUS

Bishop, Katie

Summary: ""That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in those few months I spent within touching distance of the sea. Everything I am is because Alistair loved me." Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she's now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIS

Summary: Amy is a recent divorcee who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. Demoralized and directionless, Amy begins an affair with 19 year old actor Jeremy that reignites her passion for life and jumpstarts her independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2013

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE HEL

Summary: Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. He is encouraged and egged on in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht. Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore, with an impeccable sense for when to flatter and how to deftly use political...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GEO

Raney, Deborah

Summary: "At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck--until her father's protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Gilead Publishing, LLC 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RAN

White, Edmund

Summary: "Aldwych West, an eighty-year-old modern-day aristocrat living alone in his Manhattan townhouse, is used to having what he wants. And when he sets eyes on August Dupond, a strong, stunningly beautiful soloist in the New York City Ballet, he decides he must have him. Soon they strike up a closeness that falls between the blurry lines of friendship, sponsorship, and love, and August moves in with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHI

Steel, Danielle

Summary: "Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2024

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2 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE
1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

Abé, Shana

Summary: "1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ABE

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

Summary: Anton Addison-Rice is determined to help his neighbor Edith leave her abusive marriage. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Hyd

Ernaux, Annie

Summary: "The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERNAUX, ANNIE ERN

Summary: 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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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACR

Brinkley-Rogers, Paul

Summary: "Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley‑Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri‑La that long‑ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 BRI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRINKLEY-ROGERS, PAUL BRI

Hyde, Catherine Ryan

Summary: "A hopeful novel of sacrifice, two lost souls, and enduring love ... It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded--physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYD

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HYD

Sneed, Christine

Summary: "Jayne is questioning the choices she has made in the years since college and is struggling to pay her bills in Manhattan when she is given the opportunity to move to Paris with her wealthy lover and benefactor, Laurent Moller, who owns and operates two art galleries, one in New York, the other in Paris. He offers her the time and financial support she needs to begin her career as a painter and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SNE