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1) Cross creek
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1928, frustrated newspaper reporter Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings leaves her husband and career and moves to an isolated orange grove in the Florida bayou to concentrate on writing fiction.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a feature documentary exploring the remarkable life and legacy of the late feminist author Ursula K. Le Guin ... Produced with Le Guin's participation over the course of a decade, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin is a journey through the writer's career and her worlds, both real and fantastic. Viewers will join the writer on an intimate journey of self-discovery as she comes into her own as a major feminist author, opening...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 adventure in Missouri.
4) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved best seller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. Mary McDonagh Murphy's Hey, Boo explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again. It also brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes...
6) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
Language
English
Description
A romance writer sets off to Colombia to pay the ransom of her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure. Thrown into a jungle full of gunfire, mud slides and poisonous snakes, Joan's only hope lies with Jack Colton, a rugged wanderer straight out of her novels. Together, they'll have to outwit the bandits and survive the jungle if they're to save her sister.
8) Adam
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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 in search of an extraordinary connection.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (1,051min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Fletcher is a world famous mystery writer who travels the globe doing research for her next book. She is in for a wild time when she ends up investigating the murder of a anti-zoo activist; travels to Amsterdam and looks into the disappearance of a friend, becoming a suspect to a more serious crime; a director is killed in Cabot Cove while filming a documentary; Jessica's Hawaiian vacation is interrupted when a family fued escalates into murder;...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 84 minutes) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed on location at many places actually frequented by the real persons portrayed and featuring a script written from primary sources, this documentary tells the life story of American author Louisa May Alcott, chronicling her efforts to rescue her family from poverty and find wealth, fame, and happiness for herself. Includes animations and commentary from Alcott scholars, novelist Geraldine Brooks, and the "literary sleuths" who uncovered Alcott's...
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-five years after the publication of "To kill a mockingbird", Harper Lee has published another novel. "Go set a watchman" was written before Lee's beloved masterpiece, as director Mary McDonagh Murphy explains in this update of her 2011 documentary Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird. Her new up date of her film, sifts through the facts and speculation surrounding Lee and both her novels and includes interviews with Lee's sister and...
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