Bodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)

Summary: Emma and her father discuss what they will do when the new baby arrives, but they adjust their expectations when he is born with Down syndrome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Woodbine House 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Social Emo Stuve-Bodeen 1998

Summary: Sonny and Pedro, two delightful animated characters, introduce you to a workout troupe that performs 9 different workout routines. Developed by disability fitness experts, each routine takes you through a warm up, a work out, and a cool down.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Iris Media 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.704 WOR

Summary: In Depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OFM

Summary: Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small, dark man with Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man. Overcome with thirst, the two stop in a clearing to camp for the night. As the two converse, it becomes clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability, is deeply devoted to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OF

Spencer, Elizabeth

Summary: Over the course of a career that spanned six decades, the southern novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Spencer established herself as one of the finest literary artists of a generation that included Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. This definitive volume brings together three remarkable novels: The Voice at the Back Door, her powerful masterpiece about racial...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPE

Simon, Rachel

Summary: Beth is a spirited woman with mental retardation, who spends nearly every day riding the buses in Philadelphia. The drivers, a lively group, are her mentors; her fellow passengers are her community. When Beth asks her sister Rachel to accompany her on the buses for one year, they take a transcendent journey together that changes Rachel's life in incredible ways and leads her to accept her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SIM

Summary: Documentary film about Walter "Shorty" Simms, a 55-year old man with Down syndrome, and the #1 fan of the Hampden-Sydney College Tiger football team. The film follows Shorty through the Tiger's 2002 football season culminating in his induction into the Hampden-Sydney College Athletic Hall-of-Fame and his 56th birthday, which falls on the day of the Tiger's final game of the season against 108...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Revolution Earth Productions 2003

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Shorty 2003