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English
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For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her family's Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, it's time to learn the truth. In 1952, Simius is a busy Sardinian town surrounded by fertile farms and orchards....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
Widescreen [DVD].
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (434 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Murphy's romance: In an endearing comic love story, a gutsy divorced mother eager to make it as a horse trainer on a small desert ranch is courted by the town's most eligible widower and her ne'er-do-well ex-husband. Places in the heart: It's the 1930's in Waxahachie, Texas. Against this Depression-torn background unforgettable characters meet and collide. Its emotionally gripping story centers around Edna Spalding (Sally Fields) and her unending...
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English
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Tom Dooley returned from the Civil War to a tumultuous affair with Ann Foster Melton, a married woman, and later became involved with her cousins Pauline and Laura. Tom is about to elope with Laura, who is found murdered, and he and Ann are arrested. After exonerating Ann, Tom is tried and found guilty. But why would he kill the girl he was going to run away with?
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English
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"Generations of secrets unfold as a young college student learns the truth about her great-grandmother's World War II heartbreak and love. For fans of Francine Rivers and Karen Kingsbury. Brianna Hastings's life seems dull and full of disappointment until a handsome young man visits her church. She's instantly smitten by the charming Greg, who leads an exciting, independent life--the kind of life she longs for. But when a college history assignment...
105) Grist Mill Road
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results--
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Seventy-fifth anniversary edition ; Special edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 101 min.) : black & white, sound ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A song and dance man leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. His former partner is also his rival in love. The two talented pals find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady.
107) Atomic love
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Chicago, 1950. Rosalind Porter has always defied expectations--in her work as a physicist on the Manhattan Project and in her passionate love affair with colleague Thomas Weaver. Five years after the end of both, her guilt over the bomb and her heartbreak over Weaver are intertwined. She desperately misses her work in the lab, yet has almost resigned herself to a more conventional life. Then Weaver gets back in touch--and so does the FBI. Special...
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
463 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Widowed and forced to remarry in three years' time or forfeit her son's inheritance, Daisy Bristol, Lady Chatwick, has plenty of suitors vying for her hand -- and her fortune. But a letter from a long-lost love sends Daisy and her young son to her Scottish Highland estate to buy time for his return. Along the way she encounters the powerful Cailean Mackenzie, laird of Arrandale and a notorious smuggler, and she is utterly -- though unwillingly --...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
581 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four artistic sisters on the outskirts of Gilded Age New York high society are swept up by the eldest sister's heartbroken efforts to achieve literary success against a backdrop of two suitors from very different walks of life.
110) The duchess
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
111) The Elite
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever -- and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen? America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want -- and America's chance to choose is about...
112) The scarlet letter
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 2 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. + 1 book.
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel "The Scarlet Letter" about an adulteress, Hester Prynne, and the scorn she receives from the people in her Puritan New England village.
113) My fair lady
Language
English
Description
Arrogant, irascible, and misogynistic professor of phonetics Henry Higgins believes that the accent and tone of one's voice determines a person's prospects in society. He boasts to a new acquaintance, Colonel Hugh Pickering--also an expert in phonetics--that he could teach any woman to speak so "properly" that he could pass her off as a duchess at an embassy ball. He chooses as an example a sassy, young working-class London flower seller from the...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (398 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Roberta: Fred and Ginger sing I Won't Dance, but their feet prove otherwise in a tale of Parisian high fashion and hijinks.
Follow the fleet: Astaire plays a hoofer-turned-sailor. Rogers is his ex-partner, now convoying the Navy around for 10 cents a dance. One day the fleet returns to home port and the partnership is renewed--at least for one more show.
Follow the fleet: A Navy sailor tries to rekindle a romance with the woman he loves while on...
115) Gone with the wind
Language
English
Description
Scarlett O'Hara is the daughter of a wealthy southern plantation owner. Ashley is the love of her life, but he is going to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton. At a barbecue at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett meets Rhett Butler. News of the Civil War arrives at the barbecue. As the war continues, Scarlett becomes a widow, all while still pining for Ashley. After the war, Scarlett travels to her family's plantation only to find it in ruins, with no food, animals...
116) Sweet home Alabama
Author
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When fashion designer Melanie gets engaged to Manhattan's most eligible bachelor, she must travel back to Alabama to get a divorce from her estranged husband.