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1) All shook up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Josh goes to stay with his father in Chicago for a few months, he discovers--to his horror--that his dad has become an Elvis impersonator.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Depression hits in Cairo, Illinois, and Oscar Ogilvie's father must sell their home and vast model train set-up to look for work in California, eleven-year-old Oscar is left with his dour aunt, where he befriends a mysterious drifter, witnesses a stunning bank robbery, and is suddenly catapulted onto a train that takes him to a different time and place.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her conception and, remarkably, find a YouTube video of her...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Drew starts the summer of 1986 helping in her mother's cheese shop and dreaming about co-worker Nick, but when her widowed mother begins dating, Drew's father's book of lists, her pet rat, and Emmett, a boy on a quest, help her cope.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This epic World War II tale of star-crossed lovers separated by class, circumstance, and tragedy--from the international bestselling author of the "gripping...filled with passion and hope" (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author) The Girl They Left Behind--explores the impact of war on civilian life and the indestructible resilience of first love. Hungary, 1943: As war encroaches on the country's borders, willful young Eva César arrives in...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and literature. In twenty-nine intimate, brilliant, funny, and sharp essays, Messud reflects on a childhood move from her Connecticut home to Australia; the complex relationship between her modern Canadian mother and a fiercely single French Catholic aunt;...
Author
Publisher
Liveright
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
J.G. Ballard has been, for over fifty years, one of this country's most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, "Empire of the Sun", in this revelatory autobiography he charts the course of his astonishing life. "Miracles of Life" takes us from the vibrant surroundings of pre-war Shanghai, to the deprivations and unexpected freedoms of Lunghua Camp, to Ballard's arrival in a devastated Britain. Ballard recounts...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (468 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment; ' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his mother's nurse; Liz has a disastrous first date; Jack gets...
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This memoir is about Clancy Sigal's boyhood in Depression-era Chicago, then James Farrell and Nelson Algren territory. The author recounts his intense relationship with his mother Jennie, a sometime firebrand union organizer, and his roaring Oedipal rivalry with his mostly absent father Leo. Jennie is a single mother on welfare trying to raise a wild rebellious son in a twilight world between law and lawlessness. She is defiant, vulnerable, sexually...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Marie, a young woman from a small town, moves to New York hoping to become an actress. She shares all the joys and sorrows she encounters while dealing with her parents and boyfriend as she struggles to further her dreams.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Marie and Donald finally cement their long relationship with an engagement and wedding. The ring, the cake, the family, the bridal shower - all happen in an amusing fashion, except for the wedding. Ann Marie continues with her acting career and has a series of adventures including a play in St. Louis, appearing as "Miss Everything" at the "New York has Everything" exhibit, performs at the Friars Club and models at a race track.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 602 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When family patriarch James is killed in an auto accident, Florida is left to support herself and her three children on her own. Times are tough, but laughter is the best medicine, and soon it seems like the good times are back again.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring actress Ann Marie and her devoted boyfriend Donald Hollinger see their relationship grow deeper, but Ann still isn't going to put marriage plans ahead of her career. Her determination starts to pay off as Ann finds herself in a play with Ethel Merman, begins to appear in commercials, is cast in a Broadway hit and shows up on the cover of a magazine. Of course, Ann's doting parents still worry about their daughter, and her father clings to...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 660 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This season is a pivotal one for aspiring actress Ann Marie and her ever-devoted boyfriend Donald Hollinger. Social issues come to the forefront as Ann, in addition to her usual wacky adventures, finds herself contending with issues such as spousal abuse, adoption, race relations and politics. Ann remains focused on her career, making progress with a role in a Broadway show starring Barry Sullivan, as well as appearing in a series of soda commercials....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Marie is a struggling actress living in New York City. In between trying to find acting and modeling jobs, she shares time with her boyfriend, Donald Hollinger, and tries to convince her dad, Lou Marie, that she can make it on her own.
Author
Publisher
Capitol Records
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Deluxe edition box set].
Physical Desc
5 CDs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 vinyl records (analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in.) + 2 vinyl records (analog, 45 rpm ; 7 in.) + 1 volume (60 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31x31 cm) + 1 pamphlet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27x27 cm)
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (584 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Will and Carlton enter the University of Los Angeles, home of the Peacocks--and college life is fly. Gorgeous coeds, their own place, fraternity parties, and even some education.
Series
Indicator volume 280-289
Publisher
Indicator
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Limited edition.
Physical Desc
10 Blu-rays (34 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (115 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
Language
English
Description
British director Michael J Murphy cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts and had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal, and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Containing...
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