Cherry Jones
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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries-- and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
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"Laura Ingalls is heading west! The Ingalls family packs up their covere wagon and sets off for the big skies of the Kansas Territory, where wide open land stretches as far as the eye can see. Just when they begin to feel settled, they are caught in the middle of a dangerous conflict"--P. [4] of cover.
4) Farmer boy
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English
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At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 9
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English
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During their first four years of marriage, Laura and Almanzo Wilder have a child and fight a losing battle in their attempts to succeed at farming on the South Dakota prairie.
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English
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With the publication of her first novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twenty-three, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece first published by Houghton Mifflin in 1940. At its center is the deaf-mute John Singer, who becomes the confidant for various types...
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 7
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English
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Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.
11) The long winter
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 6
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English
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After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.
12) Signs
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + companion booklet.
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English
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In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess, the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles.
13) I saw the light
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
14) 24: Season two
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English
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Hang on for the adrenaline rush of a lifetime as Jack Bauer unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is thrust into more extreme action than ever before! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races against the clock to prevent the assassination of a Middle Eastern leader on a vital peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a deadly terrorist threat against New York City intensifies and builds toward an explosive climax.
15) Our friend
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[2021]
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, have their lives upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could...
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[2000]
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1 videodisc (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Andrea Gail is a sword fishing boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts. Billy Tyne is her captain, down-on-his-luck from a recent losing streak, looking to bring back one big score so he and his crew will have the money to stay ashore during the coming winter. So out they go, and they hit it big, hauling in what the crew estimates is a quarter-million-dollars worth of fish. Unfortunately, they haven't paid attention to the weather forecasts or the...
17) 11.22.63
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2 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was killed in Dallas and the world changed forever. But what if it could be changed back? James Franco stars as Jake Epping, an English teacher who accepts the monumental mission of trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. Luckily, he has the help of Sadie Dunhill (Sarah Gadon), a resourceful librarian who is trying to reconcile secrets of her own. Executive produced by J.J. Abrams and based upon the bestselling...
18) Defending Jacob
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[2021]
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3 videodiscs (approximately 404 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Chris Evans stars in the limited series directed by Academy Award Nominee Morten Tyldum. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
19) The beaver
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[2011]
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
20) Boy erased
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[2019]
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1 videodisc (approximately 115 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into conflict with its leader and begins his journey to finding...