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Jinger Vuolo
(12,164)
Summary: Growing up in the public eye -- a reality star in the Duggar family documentaries -- Vuolo grew up believing the Bible was primarily a rulebook and that faith was about executing God's laws to...
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Call #: B VUOLO
Locations: Adult Biographies, Hot Picks
copies in: 2 of 3
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by
Walter S. Tevis
(101,018)
Summary: Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F TEVIS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 10 of 19
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by
Helene Tursten
(20,596)
Summary: Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F TURSTEN
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 9 of 19
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by
Glendy Vanderah
(169,846)
Summary: After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F VANDERAH
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 8 of 19
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by
Eley Williams
(8,403)
Summary: Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary -- violating and subverting the dictionary's authority -- in an attempt to assert some sense of...
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BOOK
Call #: BK CLUB F WILLIAMS
Locations: Book Club Sets, Adult Fiction
copies in: 5 of 19
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![The Alamo (2004) [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/14664@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Retells the story of the historic 1836 battle in the Texan War of Independence. Facing 4,000 Mexican troops, 186 Texan soldiers and volunteers - including William Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ALAMO
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Alvarez Kelly [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/42159@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In this Civil War tale, a cattle-driver sells his herd to the Yankees, then is kidnapped by a rebel who wants him to steal cattle for the South. Includes original theatrical trailer.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ALVAREZ
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Angel and the badman; John Wayne on film [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11215@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A notorious gunslinger learns the ways of peace from a beautiful Quaker girl.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ANGEL
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Appaloosa [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39771@2x.jpg)
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Summary: 1880s, the American West. Randall Bragg is a rich landowner who is wanted for murdering the town marshal. Lawman Virgil Cole and his deputy Everett Hitch are two friends who are hired to defend a...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN APPALOOSA
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/31424@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being hunted by the law in 10 states. He's also the land's greatest hero, lauded as a Robin Hood by the...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN ASSASSINATION
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Bury my heart at Wounded Knee [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/113264@2x.jpg)
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Summary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN BURY
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Cahill, United States Marshal [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/13407@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Returning to the scruffy town of Valentine, Texas, after many months of tracking wanted criminals, Cahill learns that there's been trouble at home as well. The local sheriff and deputy have been...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN CAHILL
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Good, the bad and the ugly [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/9033@2x.jpg)
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Summary: During the American Civil War, three men seek hidden loot. With greed as their sole motivation, they overcome anything that gets in their way--including each other. Very violent and drawn out western.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN GOOD
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Gunslingers [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/10737@2x.jpg)
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN GUNSLINGERS
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Hang 'em high [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/24944@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Jed Cooper is mistaken for a criminal and is unjustly hung by the ruthless Captain Wilson and his nine-man gang, who leave him for dead. Cooper escapes the lynching and sets out on a deadly rampage of revenge against his persecutors.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN HANG
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![High noon [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/3780@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A retired marshal's wedding is interrupted when he learns a killer he had sent to jail will return to town on the noon train to seek revenge. The townspeople refuse to help him, so he is forced to...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN HIGH
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Hostiles [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/185860@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family through dangerous territory back to tribal lands.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN HOSTILES
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![How the West was won [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/115042@2x.jpg)
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Summary: This saga follows a family's move west through generations. Restored clarity eliminates the film's original panoramic three-panel join lines.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN HOW
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The John Wayne collection [DVD].](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/157347@2x.jpg)
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN JOHN
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Last days of Frank & Jesse James [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/119230@2x.jpg)
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Summary: No other outlaws in American history became more famous than Missouri's Frank and Jesse James. From 1866 to 1882, they led a gang that robbed banks and held up trains, continually defying the Yankee authorities in the aftermath of the Civil War.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN LAST
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Lone Ranger [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/232564@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The Lone Ranger, the last of his kind, teams with Tonto, a dark and mysterious vigilante, to seek vengeance after justice has failed them. It's a runaway train filled with surprises, as these two...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN LONE
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Lonesome dove [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39923@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Augustus McCrae and Woodrow call, longtime friends and former Texas Rangers, steal over a thousand head of cattle from rustlers south of the border and recruit an unlikely crew of hands to drive the herd 3,000 miles north to Montana.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN LONESOME
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The magnificent seven [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/17053@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The citizens of a small Mexican farming village hire seven gun fighters to defend them from a ruthless and exploitative group of bandits led by Calvera. As Calvera's next raid approaches, the...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN MAGNIFICENT
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Mail order bride [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/233643@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Big city trouble hits con woman Diana McQueen when she decides to call it quits with her relentless boss, Tom Rourke. But for Diana, the only way out is to switch places with a friend who had planned...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN MAIL
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![News of the world [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/235687@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN NEWS
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Open range [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/11632@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Boss Spearman, a rugged old-timer, free grazes cattle. He and Charley have been partners for ten years. The pair and their employees, Mose and Buttons, are driving their cattle across the West. Mose...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN OPEN
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The Ox-Bow incident [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/161101@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An angry mob kills a man after a popular rancher is murdered.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN OX
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Rio Bravo [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/162981@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A Texas border sheriff fights off hired gunmen to keep a murderer in custody.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN RIO
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The searchers [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/23805@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN SEARCHERS
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Seraphim Falls [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/27806@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The American Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver accepts one final mission. He has to kill Gideon no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN SERAPHIM
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Shane [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/112184@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A drifter and retired gunfighter helps a homestead family fight against an aging cattleman and his hired gunman.
DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN SHANE
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![True grit [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54825@2x.jpg)
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Summary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN TRUE
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![True grit [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/55553@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN TRUE
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Unforgiven [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/29824@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Bill Munny is who is a retired, once ruthless killer-turned-hog farmer is flat broke. He is a widower with two young children to tend to and feels he has no choice but accept on last bounty hunter...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN UNFORGIVEN
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The wild bunch [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/238160@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In this gritty Western classic, aging outlaw Pike Bishop (William Holden) prepares to retire after one final robbery. Joined by his gang, which includes Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and brothers...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN WILD
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Winchester '73 [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/9393@2x.jpg)
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Summary: An engaging frontiersman attempts to track down his father's murderer and the whereabouts of his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester '73, as it passes among a rogue's gallery of owners including a...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN WINCHESTER
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Young guns [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/49567@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an...
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DVD
Call #: DVD WESTERN YOUNG
Location: DVDs Western
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Scott Abbott
Summary: Patrick Guthrie, a widowed public school drama teacher, will do whatever he can to make the money for a life-saving operation his ten-year-old son needs--including begging on the streets of New York.
BOOK
Call #: F ABBOTT
Location: Adult Fiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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