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Adoptees Fiction Animals Juvenile fiction Dogs Fiction Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Great Britain Fiction Japanese Americans Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction Toad of Toad Hall (Fictitious character) Juvenile fiction Video recordings for the hearing impairedBennett, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
Summary: Presents two short tales of sex, secrets, and misrepresentation, including "The Greening of Mrs. Donaldson," in which a widow supplements her income by being a test subject for medical students.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
Contents: The laying on of hands -- Miss Fozzard finds her feet -- Father! Father! Burning bright.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
Summary: Obliged to borrow a book when her corgis stray into a mobile library, the Queen discovers a passion for reading, setting the palace upon its head and causing the royal head of Great Britain to question her role in the monarchy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBennett, Alan
Summary: Discovering the joy of reading widely and intelligently and abetted in her newfound obsession by Norman, a young man from the royal kitchens, the Queen comes to question the prescribed order of the world and loses patience with the routines of her role as monarch.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BENBennett, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, c1994. 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.914 BENSummary: The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for fifteen years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LadySummary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MADGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks America 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GRASummary: Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HISSummary: Poignant, funny, warm, tragic - the acclaimed monologues of Alan Bennett crackle with wry observations, knowing irony and tender understanding. In superb performances, Patricia Routledge reaches beneath the surface to reveal unexpected secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PATGrahame, Kenneth
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Audiobooks 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV GRASummary: Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANFranks, Norman L. R.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grub Street 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4494 RICHTHOFEN, MANFRED, FREIHERR VON FRASummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Contents: Helicop -- Drama blackcloth 3 -- Master plan -- Scenechange 2B -- Drama blackcloth 2 -- Name of the game -- The detectives interlude -- Scenechange 3A -- Prowler -- Scenechange 8A -- High diver -- The detectives link 1 -- SPIV -- The detectives link 2C -- Action in Memphis -- Thug -- The detectives link 6B -- Sunny side up -- The detectives link 3 -- Eyes -- The detectives link 5B -- Dynomite...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wax Poetics Records 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BLABennett, Jeffrey O.
Summary: A dog named Max flies into space as a special member of a team studying Mars. Includes educational sidebars about the planet on every page, and a hands-on activity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Kid Science 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space BennettCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE BENBennett, Jeffrey O.
Summary: Taking the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo missions, Max the dog and his friend Tori help set up the first colony on the Moon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Kid Science 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space BennettCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BENBrennert, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREBrennert, Alan
Summary: Follows the story of quarantined leprosy patient Rachel Kalama's daughter, Ruth, who is raised by adoptive Japanese parents on a California grape farm before her unjust internment during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREBrennert, Alan
Summary: Ruth Utagawa, daughter of lepers but not afflicted herself, is taken from an orphanage and adopted by a Japanese family, the Watanabes, who move from Hawaii to Northern California, where they start a strawberry farm in the early 1920s. In Florin, near Sacramento, they encounter prejudice in the form of Sheriff Dreesen, who wishes the Japanese would all move back to their homeland. Ruth comes of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019