Ferber, Edna

Summary: Epic western about the Cravat family settling the Oklahoma prairie. Yancy Cravat is a newspaperman and lawyer who helps found the town of Osage. An adventurer, he finds town-life stifling and seeks his thrills even further into the frontier. His wife ends up becoming a town leader when his absences leave her no other choice.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930

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Ferber, Edna

Summary: A rollicking panarama of Chicago's high and low life, this stunning novel follows the travails of gambler's daughter Selina Peake DeJong as she struggles to maintain her dignity, her family, and her sanity in the face of monumental challenges.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 2000

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Summary: Jackie Peyton is a sharp-tongued and quick-witted nurse who is trying to survive the chaotic grind of saving lives in a hectic New York City hospital. Jackie's a woman of substance who knows how to handle it all. With a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a steady dose of pain relievers for her chronic back pain, Jackie does whatever it takes to get the job done.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Ferber, Edna

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Co. 1952

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Ferber, Edna

Contents: Roast beef, medium -- Representing T. A. Buck -- Chickens -- His mother's son -- Pink tights and ginghams -- Simply skirts -- Underneath the high-cut vest -- Catching up with Christmas -- Knee-deep in knickers -- In the absence of the agent.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2001

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Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999

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Summary: A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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

Summary: True-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Evita 1998

Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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Summary: A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that's been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018

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Summary: After being released from a mental institute, a man moves in with his daughter and becomes convinced that a buried treasure is waiting to be found near their home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KIN

Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003

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Summary: Hitch is New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and when Albert Brennaman wins the heart of gorgeous society heiress Allegra Cole, Albert has Hitch to thank. So when tabloid columist Sara Melas decides to uncover the secret behind the relationships unlikely success, she's shocked to discover that Alex Hitchens, the charming young man she's been dating, is the legendary date doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2005

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Summary: After the destruction of the Planet Romulus, follow Picard as he tracks down a series of mysteries about his past. Picard sets out on a new adventure against a legion of dangerous foes, with the help of a few returning characters: Data, Riker, and Seven of Nine, and a whole new crew.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Fraction, Matt.

Summary: "Ace archer Clint Barton battles Superstorm Sandy, digital doomsday, dog detectives, lady problems, murder for money and more as Matt Fraction and David Aja continue their exciting, adventurous reinvention of the arrowed Avenger! Plus: the tracksuits are back, and they're aiming to kill!" -- page 4 of cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Enterprises 2013

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HAW

Summary: The story of the relationship between a young father and his infant son after the death of the boy's mother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures 2013

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Summary: Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion. Henry then marries Anne of Cleves, a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2009

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Summary: The true story of Rocky Dennis, a personable young man who has craniodiaphyseal dysplasia, a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. Rocky is the son of biker Rusty and he is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and her cycle buddies, but treated with pity and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal doesn't want to enroll Rocky, but...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAS

Waber, Bernard.

Summary: A loudly snoring mouse disturbs the residents of a quiet country house.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000

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Reber, Deborah.

Summary: Join Steve and Blue when they take Periwinkle, the big city kitten, to the country festival to show him what's so great about spring. You can help Blue and Periwinkle hunt for eggs, make leaf prints, plant seeds, and visit all the booths at the fair!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight/Nick Jr. 2001

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Waber, Bernard

Summary: The tale of a pet crocodile in New York City who escapes after being placed in a zoo

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 0000

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WAB