Summary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD ShawshankSummary: The true-story of aspiring filmmaker and infamous Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau and a celebration of friendship and dreams pursued against insurmountable odds. When Greg Sestero, an aspiring film actor, meets the weird and mysterious Tommy Wiseau in an acting class, they form a unique friendship and travel to Hollywood to make their dreams come true. Based on the best-selling tell-all about...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD DisasterEverett, Percival
Summary: "From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION EverettSummary: Bill Bryson, instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife and large and happy family, challenges himself to hike the Appalachian Trail: 2,200 miles of America's most unspoiled, spectacular, and rugged countryside from Georgia to Maine. The peace and tranquility he hopes to find, though, is anything but, when the only person he can find willing to join him on the trek is his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broad Green Pictures 2015
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD WalkBradbury, Ray
Summary: Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks 2017
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: PBK SF BradbHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son. In a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the astrocities of the present day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK FICTION HosseRusso, Richard
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three sixty-six-year old men convene on Martha's Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn't have been more different then, or even...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RussoHosseini, Khaled.
Summary: An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is a beautifully crafted novel set in a country that is in the process of being destroyed. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HosseDavies, Carys
Summary: "John, an impoverished Scottish minister, has accepted a job evicting the lone remaining occupant of an island north of Scotland--Ivar, who has been living alone for decades, with only the animals and the sea for company. Though his wife, Mary, has serious misgivings about the errand, he decides to go anyway, setting in motion a chain of events that neither he nor Mary could have predicted....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DaviesSummary: Ben and Andrew are best friends since college. After a wild night of partying, they decide to enter an amateur porn film festival by filming themselves having sex with each other. The only things stopping them is that one of them is married, and neither of them is homosexual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD HumpBlashek, Jordan
Summary: "In the year before Donald Trump was elected president, Jordan Blashek, a Republican Marine, and Chris Haugh, a Democrat and son of a single mother from Berkeley, CA, formed an unlikely friendship. Jordan was fresh off his service in the Marines and feeling a bit out of place at Yale Law School. Chris was yearning for a sense of mission after leaving Washington D.C. Over the months, Jordan and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 BlashekButler, Nickolas
Summary: Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age thirteen, social outcast and overachiever, is the Bugler, sounding the reveille proudly each morning. Yet this particular summer marks the beginning of an uncertain and tenuous friendship with a popular boy named Jonathan. Over the years, Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam War, becomes Scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa, while Jonathan marries,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ButlerHanks, Tom
Summary: Tells the story of the friendship between the host of television series "Mister Rogers' neighborhood" Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2020
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD BeautifulKnowles, John
Summary: Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION KnowHession, Rónán
Summary: "the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal. Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HessionIrving, John
Summary: In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. He is Irving's most heartbreaking hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION IrvingPotok, Chaim.
Contents: Connections: The man to sent rain clouds / by Leslie Marmon Silko -- Two views of friendship / by Robert Southwell -- Frienship (song lyrics) / by Cole Porter -- Two souls / by Meyer Levin -- Psalm 149 -- Zionism (nonfiction excerpts). My childhood / by Golda Meir ; Declaration of Independence from Israel / by David Ben-Gurion -- The church rocked through time / by Richard Rodriguez -- There is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1995
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION PotokRash, Ron
Summary: "It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION RashSummary: A drama about the deep friendship between Gale Sayers, black halfback for the Chicago Bears, and his white teammate, Brian Piccolo, who died of cancer in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD BrianWillems, Mo
Summary: Piggie is upset because a whale took the ball she found, but Gerald finds a solution that pleases all of them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015