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The all-girl filling station's last reunion [sound recording] / by Flagg, Fannie.;
Read by the author."Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice and storytelling magic"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Audiobooks.; Family secrets; Female friendship; Service stations; Women;
© p2013., Random House Audio : Books on Tape,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Tidelands / by Gregory, Philippa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Midsummer's Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands--the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women and crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she's leading disaster into the heart of her life.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; Civil war; Witches; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Come in spinner [videorecording] : the loves and lives of women in wartime / by Benyon, Lissa.; Chapman, Jan.; Clarke, Justine,1971-; Cusack, Dymphna.; Enright, Nicholas,1950-; Harrow, Lisa.; James, Florence.; Marchand, Robert.; Marshall, Bryan,1938-; BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd.;
Bryan Marshall, Lisa Harrow, Justine Clarke, Gary Sweet, Kerry Armstrong.This Australian drama set during the Second World War is a story of one week in the lives of three remarkable women who run a beauty salon in the posh South Pacific Hotel.PG.
Subjects: Beauty shops; Made-for-TV movies.; Nineteen forties; Television mini-series.; War television programs.; Women; World War, 1939-1945;
© c2013., BFS Entertainment & Multimedia,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Little women [videorecording] / by Baker, Dylan,actor.; Elwy, Annes,actor.; Fitzgerald, Willa,actor.; Hauer-King, Jonah,actor.; Hawke, Maya,actor.; Lansbury, Angela,1925-actor.; Morris, Julian,1983-actor.; Newton, Kathryn,1997-actor.; Caswill, Vanessa,television director.; television adaptation of (work):Alcott, Louisa May,1832-1888.Little women.; Watson, Emily,1967-actor.; PBS Distribution (Firm),publisher.;
Maya Hawke, Kathryn Newton, Dylan Baker, Willa Fitzgerald, Annes Elwy, Emily Watson, Julian Morris, Jonah Hauer-King, Angela Lansbury.Originally broadcast on television as a segment of "Masterpiece theatre" in 2017.Loved by generations of women worldwide, Little Women is a truly universal coming of age story. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, the story follows sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March on their journey from childhood to adulthood. With the help of their mother, Marmee, the girls navigate what it means to be a young woman: from sibling rivalry and first love, to loss and marriage.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; 5.1 surround.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Television mini-series.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888.; Families; March family (Fictitious characters); Sisters; Young women;
For private home use only.
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These violent times / by Joyner, C. Courtney,1959-;
Even in the darkest days of the Civil War, Dr. John "Shotgun" Bishop never saw anything like the deadly plague sweeping through the Cheyenne nation. Diseased corpses dumped in the wells of the Great Plains. Women and children bombarded with infected blood during midnight raids. This is the new scourge of germ warfare, and it's threatening to wipe out thousands of innocent lives. The culprits are a gang of renegades led by Shotgun's one-time protégé, a doctor driven insane by the war, and now hell-bent on spreading pestilence across the land "to witness the cleansing of the West." When the psychopath frames Shotgun for the plague-murders, he's forced into a bloody chase, with posses of lawmen, bounty hunters, and a Cheyenne war party on his trail. Dr. John Bishop has only one choice to stop the plague, and clear his name: load up--and start shooting.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Biological weapons; Plague;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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On Isabella Street / by Graham, Genevieve,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping novel set in Toronto and Vietnam during the turbulent sixties about two women caught up in powerful social movements and the tragedy that will bring them together--perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah's The Women."--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations; Nineteen sixties; Psychiatrists; Veterans; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Women folk musicians; Women psychiatrists;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Rosewood. by Singleton, John,film director.; McGill, Bruce,actor.; Cheadle, Don,actor.; Rolle, Esther,actor.; Dean, Loren,actor.; Rooker, Michael,actor.; Dubin, Steven,actor.; Rhames, Ving,actor.; Warner Bros. (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Bruce McGill, Don Cheadle, Esther Rolle, Loren Dean, Michael Rooker, Steven Dubin, Ving RhamesOriginally produced by Warner Bros. in 1997.A false accusation ... an angry mob ... a seething hatred. An American tragedy kept secret for more than 60 years. In 1923, predominantly black ROSEWOOD, Florida, is razed by an enraged mob when a white woman lies, saying a black man attacked her. But even at the height of the senseless massacre, a white shopkeeper and a black war veteran heroically rescue women and children. A train that runs through ROSEWOOD is commandeered in the middle of the disaster to carry them to safety. Based on a true story, this wrenching drama exposes the best and worst of human nature ... and the tragically shameful events in ROSEWOOD.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Feature films.; Action and adventure films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
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Tidelands [sound recording] / by Gregory, Philippa,author.; Brealey, Louise,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Louise Brealey.Midsummer's Eve, 1648. England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands--the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women and crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she's leading disaster into the heart of her life.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Women; Civil war; Witches; Families;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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A Schooling in Murder. by Taylor, Andrew.;
In this standalone novel set in a girl's board school during WWII, Annabel Warnock, a teacher with a secretive past, is murdered on school grounds. But Annabel's ghost is trapped, unable to move on. As she haunts the grounds and school, she discovers a hidden world - students, staff and servants are riven with deadly rivalries and dangerous tensions. And one of them is her killer. From the author of the 'James Marwood and Cat Lovett' series.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; FICTION / Ghost; FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II; FICTION / Historical / World War II; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths;
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Hestia strikes a match / by Grillo, Christine,1969-author.;
"Set amid the devastation of a new American civil war, Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship, even as the world collapses"--
Subjects: Novels.; Interpersonal relations; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Single women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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