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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Derry - Movies & TV - Adult Level
DVD Water for Elephants
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DVD Water for Elephants
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Against all odds, a veterinary student and a beautiful circus performer from a bygone era meet and fall in love through their shared compassion for a special elephant. But their secret romance incurs the wrath of her dangerously volatile husband. Bonus features included.
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Derry - Movies & TV - Adult Level
DVD Curious Case
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DVD Curious Case
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Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
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Derry - Fiction - Adult Level
Fic Lee, H.
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Fic Lee, H.
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Derry - Fiction - Adult Level
Fic Lee, Harper To Kill
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Fic Lee, Harper To Kill
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Derry - Teen Fiction - Adult Level Teen Area
T Lee, H.
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T Lee, H.
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13 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 6 people are on the wait list.
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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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The setting is a dusty Southern town during the Depression. A white woman accuses a black man of rape. Though he is obviously innocent, the outcome of his trial is such a foregone conclusion that no lawyer will step forward to defend him--except the town's most distinguished citizen. His compassionate defense costs him many friendships but earns him the respect and admiration of his two motherless children.
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Godfather series (Mario Puzo) volume 1
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The Godfather is an extraordinary novel which has become a modern day classic. Puzo pulls us inside the violent society of the Mafia and its gang wars. The leader, Vito Corleone, is the Godfather. He is a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power. His command post is a fortress on Long Island from which he presides over a vast underground empire that includes the rackets, gambling, bookmaking, and unions. His influence runs through...
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The Corleone Family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.
9) Little women
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Little Women series volume 1
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20 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Derry - Children's Fiction - Children's Level
J Alcott, L.
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J Alcott, L.
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Derry - Children's Fiction - Children's Level
J Series Great Illustrated Classics
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J Series Great Illustrated Classics
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Derry - Fiction - Adult Level
Fic Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
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Fic Alcott, Louisa May Little Women
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12 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
10) Little women
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Derry - Movies & TV - Adult Level
DVD Little Women
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DVD Little Women
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Writer-director Greta Gerwig has crafted a film that draws on both the classic novel and the writings of Louisa May Alcott and unfolds as the author's alter ego, Jo March reflects back and forth on her fictional life. In Gerwig's take, the beloved story of the March sisters, four young women each determined to live life on her own terms, is both timeless and timely.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 1
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After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
12) The Wizard of Oz
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When a nasty neighbor tries to have her dog put to sleep, Dorothy takes her dog, Toto, and starts to run away. A tornado appears and carries her to the magical land of Oz. Wishing to return home, she begins to travel to the city of Oz where a great wizard lives. On her way she meets a Scarecrow who needs a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who desperately needs courage. They all hope the all-mighty Wizard of Oz will help them,...
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he leaves his second wife and her three daughters at the mercy of his son and heir, John. John's wife convinces him to turn his step-mother and half-sisters out, and they move to a country cottage, rented to them by a distant relative. In their newly reduced circumstances Elinor and Marianne, the two eldest daughters, wrestle with ideas of romance and reality and their apparent opposition to each other. Elinor struggles in...
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Tells of the Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune.
15) The Hunger Games
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
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Derry - Audiobooks - Adult Level
YA CD T Collins, S.
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YA CD T Collins, S.
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"The Hunger Games as you've never seen it before--in a remarkable illustrated edition. Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the merciless rule of the Capitol, continually forced to pay after losing a long-ago civil war in the nation of Panem. One of the ways the Capitol keeps control is its annual Hunger Games, a televised...
16) The Hunger games
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Derry - Movies & TV - Adult Level
DVD Hunger Games
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DVD Hunger Games
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Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she's pitted against highly trained Tributes who have prepared their entire lives. She must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival...
17) Doctor Zhivago
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Overview: First published in Italy in 1957 amidst international controversy, Doctor Zhivago is the story of the life and loves of a poet/physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Here is a masterful chronicle of its outbreak and the consequences: army revolts, irrational killings, starvation, epidemics, Communist Party inquisitions. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself...
18) Doctor Zhivago
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Derry - Movies & TV - Adult Level
DVD Doctor Zhivago 1965
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DVD Doctor Zhivago 1965
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A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Westley, a farm boy, goes off to seek his fortune shortly after declaring his love for Buttercup, the most beautiful woman in the world, but their relationship is put to the test when his ship is captured by pirates and she is summoned to become the bride of the prince. Includes an "interview" with the characters and a discussion guide.
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Moonstruck: A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
When Harry met Sally ... : Sex always gets in the way of friendships between men and women. At least, that's what Harry Burns believes....