Summary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAISummary: Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Money 2002Tishy, Cecelia
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TISWillett, Marcia.
Summary: When Maudie Todhunter, the elderly owner of a charming farmhouse in Cornwall, decides to sell the family homestead, a family drama unfolds, with old secrets bubbling to the surface.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSummary: Annotation Considered a classic in its field, this comprehensive book guides buyers through the array of financing choices, including fixed-rate and adjustable mortgages, FHA or VA loans and creative financing arrangements, and shows sellers how to improve property, screen buyers and set the right price. Readers will also learn how to take advantage of home equity to relieve financial concerns...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kiplinger Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.12 BUYBray, Ilona M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nolo 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.1 BRADelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: Three years after an accident leaves her mother comatose, Casey Ellis loses the father she barely knew and inherits his Boston townhouse, which leads her to discover his harrowing experiences with a mysterious woman named Jenny.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DELDubus, Andre
Summary: Kathy, a recovering alcoholic, separated from her husband, fails to open a series of letters from the tax office. The State seizes her house and it is sold to Behrani, a former Iranian Air Force officer. For him, the house comes to represent a passport to the American dream, but not for Kathy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUBMiller, Sue
Summary: After being diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1919, a young woman is sent to a sanitarium, where she rediscovers the pleasures of unfettered youth and falls in love with a doomed man.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILMosley, Walter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2005
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GLEHoffman, Alice.
Summary: Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2004
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on CD 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MILNaipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)
Summary: Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house is the dream and the reality sustaining Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAIRoberts, Nora.
Summary: There was something about the house that called out to Declan Fitzgerald. The dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, rumored to be haunted, and long taken over by spiders and dust, would require countless hours of labor to restore to its former splendor. Perhaps that was part of the appeal. Having finally purchased Manet Hall after dreaming about it for years, Declan left his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Roberts 2001Clark, Mary Higgins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAIGarton-Good, Julie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dearborn Trade 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.12 GARLindskold, Jane M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LINMosley, Walter.
Summary: Charles Blakey, a young man who can't find a job and who has fallen behind on his mortgage payments for the home that's been in his family for generations, cannot say no when a stranger offers to rent the basement for $50,000 in cash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOSRoberts, Nora.
Summary: While renovating an old mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, Declan Fitzgerald begins seeing visions of days from a century past. Local legend has it that the house is haunted but he uncovers the reason for the strange sensations of terror and unbearable grief.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROBSaul, John.
Summary: A family discover that a house they inherited in Louisiana is haunted. The house, which they are refurbishing to turn into a hotel, was left by an aunt and it is rumored that she smothered her baby.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Pub. Group 1999