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Steinbeck, JohnSteinbeck, John
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 9610
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STESteinbeck, John
Summary: This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Summary: Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to protect him. With illustrations from the movie starring John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1993
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STESummary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OFMSummary: After their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat. Amongst the survivors is a glamorous journalist, a tough seaman, a nurse and an injured sailor. Their problems are complicated further when they pick up a ninth passenger - the Nazi captain from the U-boat that torpedoed them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005