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Widescreen DVD collectionMcCourt, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCOURT, FRANK MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 McCourtMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: An unflinching vision of life on the dole in Ireland told with humor and grace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 929.2 MCCMcCourt, 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, Call number: 974.71 MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Summary: Six year-old Angela of Limerick, Ireland, worries for the Baby Jesus on the altar of St. Joseph's Church near School House Lane where she lives and on the damp, cold December nights the baby is sure to need her help.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E McCMcCourt, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MCCOURT, FRANK MCCMcCourt, Frank.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 920 MCCMcCourt, 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.1 MCCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 McCourtCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MCCOURT 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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Place a hold to request this item.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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the children's book 'Angela And The Baby Jesus' by Frank McCourt, comes a funny, heartwarming, poignant story about the power of family and the innocent desire of a child to ensure everyone is safe, warm, and loved at Christmas time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2019
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday AnJoyce, James
Summary: Dubliners - James Joyce's stories of his native homeland - performed by a cast of 15 different actors originating from Ireland. Unabridged. The fifteen stories that make up this brilliant audio roam over a human landscape that stretches from the bleakest of despair to the most blinding of epiphanies. First published in 1914, the stories are as lucid and accessible as they are memorable...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2003
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Contents: Disc 1: The songs and stories. The stories they brought ; Our ship it is ready to sail away (8:02) -- Preparing to leave ; Thousands are sailing (7:59) -- The goodbye ; Greenfields of Amerikay (7:45) -- To be left behind ; A stor mo chroGi (7:19) -- Becoming an American ; Castles of gold (9:06) -- The arrival ; Stormy seas ; The highlander (8:35) -- The immigrant's return ; The hill of...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Green Linnet 2002