Frances Sternhagen
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Series
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English
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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
2) The hat
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English
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Cozy Up with Winter Library Club 2023
OBD Winter Picture Books - YOUTH
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
OBD Winter Picture Books - YOUTH
Snow Much Fun! - ROD Children's
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When Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.
6) Misery
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Language
English
Description
Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
7) Dolphin tale
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
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Signets Belles lettres volume AE 6861
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English
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Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of twenty-two tales from the modern master of horror.
10) Henny Penny
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1968
Language
English
Description
A cumulative tale about Henny Penny and her barnyard friends who were literally outfoxed on their journey to tell the king the sky was falling.
11) The mist
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. Later, when his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and he travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters, and the police heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead, " a secret military plan that no one knows about. When an elderly...
12) Wolf!
Author
Language
English
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Description
A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.
13) The mitten
Author
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.
15) Golden years
Language
English
Description
When aging janitor Harlan Williams is accidentally exposed to exotic chemicals in a lab explosion, he undergoes an extraordinary change, which the government wants to study at any cost. Soon, Harlan, his wife Gina, and the lab's security chief are on a cross-country race to evade a murderously effective federal agent.
Publisher
Spoken Arts
Pub. Date
c[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the "Hat, ", when Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head. In the "Umbrella." Carlos goes into the cloud forest to look for animals, but he manages to miss seeing them even though they have an adventure with his umbrella. In "Gingerbread baby, " a young boy and his mother bake a gingerbread baby that escapes from their oven and...
17) The mist
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When Dave Drayton notices a strange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead, " a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's...
18) Outland
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A future cop probes some mysterious deaths among the workers in a mining colony on one of Jupiter's innermost moons.
19) Doc Hollywood
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Language
English
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Description
Ben Stone is a brash, newly-minted MD whose cruise toward the medical fast lane of a Beverly Hills plastic surgery practice takes a small-town detour. He ends up in Grady, South Carolina, Squash Capital of the South and home of salt-of-the-earth folks who know it's better to follow your heart than your wallet.
20) The Hat
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Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
c[2006]
Language
English
Description
In the "Hat,", when Lisa hangs her woolen clothes in the sun to air them out for winter, the hedgehog, to the amusement of the other animals, ends up wearing a stocking on his head.