Summary: David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MARSummary: Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC NIMSummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SexSummary: Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assistant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has Asperger's syndrome and has led a sheltered existence. Then he meets his new neighbor, Beth. She is a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Adam 2010Summary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIRSummary: John Farley grew up as a chubby kid with no athletic skills and poor self-esteem. During his early teenage years his nemesis was Mr. Woodcock, the school's gym teacher. Woodcock took a sadistic glee in tormenting John and others like him. Years later, John has slimmed down and has come to terms with his self-image. He has become a best-selling author, publishing a self-help book on overcoming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STAContents: Spike heels / by Theresa Rebeck -- Jar the floor / by Cheryl L. West -- The Baltimore waltz / by Paula Vogel -- Unfinished stories / by Sybille Pearson -- What is this everything? / by Patricia Scanlon -- Joined at the head / by Catherine Butterfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 WOMSummary: An American writer in Italy becomes an amateur sleuth when he witnesses a failed attempt by a serial killer to take the life of the wife of a wealthy gallery owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY BIRSummary: In 1928 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROSummary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED RSummary: After years of reckless behavior, a heroin addiction and the destruction of her marriage, Cheryl Strayed makes a rash decision. Haunted by memories of her mother Bobbi and with absolutely no experience, she sets out to hike more than a thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail all on her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WILCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIL RATED RSummary: A New York writer with a passion for literature writes to a London bookstore in search of rare classics. A good-natured, reserved Englishman answers her request, beginning a relationship that spans two continents and two decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE EIGHansberry, Lorraine
Summary: A three-act play concerned with the tensions in a middle-class African American family living on Chicago's Southside in the 1950s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Modern Library 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Allison, Dorothy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.54 ALLSummary: Amidst the adventure, hardships, and excitement of her teenage years on the Dakota prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder puts pen to paper and begins to document her extraordinary life. Laura matures from young girl to woman, making sacrifices to help her family survive. She also meets her loving husband, Almanzo Wilder, and together with their daughter, Rose, they set off on their own pioneer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Paramount Network Television 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: In 1959, Miami journalist and aspiring writer Ed Myers travels to Havana to meet his idol, Ernest Hemingway. A fascinating and unexpected friendship develops as the legendary author mentors young Myers in deep-sea fishing, drinking, and finding his literary voice, while the Cuban Revolution comes to a boil around them. The first U.S. movie filmed in Cuba in more than half a century, it offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAPZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTSummary: "A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Ford, Dionne
Summary: "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2023