Summary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANGSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: ... Contains fifty genealogical sketches of heads of households living in what are today Berkshire, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New England Historic Genealogical Society 2012
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.3744 WESContents: Lonely side of love (Del McCoury) -- A good man like me (Del McCoury) -- Mountain folks (Ralph Stanley) -- In the pines (Ralph & Carter Stanley) -- Lonesome wind blues (The Whites) -- I'm just a used to be to you (The Whites) -- Green rolling hills of West Virginia (Alisa & Ramona Jones) -- Whiskey before breakfast (Alisa & Ramona Jones) -- Rank strangers to me (Ralph Stanley) -- Mountain...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Man-do-lin Productions Inc. 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC FAMGouin, Jacques
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Methuen 1985
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.2 PANET GOUMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: "'Tis is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur. Frank lands in New York at age nineteen, in the company of a priest he meets on the boat. He gets a job at the Biltmore Hotel, where he immediately encounters the vivid hierarchies of this "classless country," and then is drafted into the army and is sent to Germany to train dogs and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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Summary: An unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland told with humor and grace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.2 MCCMcCourt, Lisa.
Summary: Jessica and her classmates form a club whose mission is to perform acts of kindness, even for the meanest boy in the class.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Canfield 1997McCourt, Frank.
Summary: Continues the sometimes harrowing tale of the author's youth as he immigrates from Ireland to the United States, joins the Army, goes to college, and begins building a life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.71 MCCMcCourt, Lisa.
Summary: With the help of her loyal subject, Sir Daddy, a young girl pretends to be a princess as she gets ready for bed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Troll/BridgeWater 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E McCMcCourt, Frank.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The third installment of McCourt's memoirs (after Angela's Ashes and 'Tis) covers his thirty-year teaching career in New York City's public high schools.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 371.1 McCouMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: In this tribute to teachers everywhere. McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. His methods anything but conventional, McCourt creates a lasting impact on his students through imaginative assignments, singalongs and field trips. As he struggles to find his way in the classroom, he spends his evenings drinking with writers and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 MCCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCOURT MCCMcCourt, Malachy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.43 MCCMcCoury, Del.
Contents: Road of love -- Lonesome wind -- I feel the blues moving in -- You'll find her name written there -- High on a mountain -- I'll pretend it's raining -- Don't our love look natural? -- Cheek to cheek with the blues -- Old memories mean nothing to me -- If you've got the money honey -- Queen Anne's lace -- If you need a fool -- The bluest man in town -- The cold hard facts -- Blackjack county...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY McCouMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The author's memoir of his journey from impoverished Irish immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1999
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 974.71 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: The author recounts his childhood in Depression-era Brooklyn as the child of Irish immigrants who decide to return to worse poverty in Ireland when his infant sister dies.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2005
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Summary: A mother and child discuss how the mother's love would remain constant even if her child were a stinky skunk, scary ape, or bug-eating green alien.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MCCMcCourt, Malachy
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Bk. 1. pt. 1. Hans Georg Huy and descendants: 17th and early 18th Century in Thurgau, Switzerland -- pt. 2. Abraham Huy/Huey -- Magdalene Gernand: early 18th Century Berks/late 18th Century Dauphin County settlers -- pt. 3. George Eckert Huy -- Corolyn Taylor: farewell to the East; a pioneer in Minneapolis -- pt. 4. Arthur S. Huey -- Hattie King: onward and upward in Chicago -- pt. 5. Arthur S....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Huey 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 HUEY HueyMcCoury, Del
Contents: White House blues (2:12) -- Eli Renfro (3:26) -- Are you coming back to me? (3:17) -- I've endured (2:19) -- Call collect on Christmas (3:44) -- A good man like me (2:28) -- Rock hearts (2:30) -- J.D. Jones (2:24) -- My Dixie home (1:45) -- Hand your head in shame (2:39) -- Drifting with the tide (2:00) -- I've been crying (2:25).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY MCCGlass Family.
Contents: Stop dead in your tracks -- Honest tries -- Bad news -- Swimming in fiction -- Sleep inside this wheel -- This is impossible -- Stolen art -- There's a red light waiting for you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: I Eat Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GLASummary: This documentary traces the unorthodox path of Daniel Smith - eccentric musician, visual artist and devout Christian - as he creates a musical phenomenon with family and friends, and mentors an unknown singer-songwriter whose subsequent success stands in contrast to the music world's uneasy reception of Danielson just a few years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC DANCaron, Claude
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Familles Caron d'Amérique 1989