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The
African Queen / C. S. Forester
book - PR 6011 .O56 A3 1963
movie - PN 1997 .A26 1992 Video tape
Rose, a religious missionary,
convinces Charlie, a gin-loving engineer, to take his rickety
old boat, The African Queen, down a treacherous river to
destroy a German gunboat patrolling the lake at the end of the
river.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1951.
All the
President’s Men / Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
book - E 860 .B47 1974
movie - PN 1997 .A382 1986 Video tape
Details
all the events of the biggest political scandal in the history
of this nation – Watergate.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1976.
The
Color Purple / Alice Walker
book - PS 3573 .A425 C6 1992
movie - PN 1997 .C64 1997 Video tape
Story
of an abused and uneducated black woman's
struggle for empowerment.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1985.
From
Here to Eternity / James Jones
book - PS 3560 .O49 F7 1951
movie - PN 1997 .F76 1989 Video tape
Portrays
the life of soldiers in the American army in months before the
1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
Originally
released as a motion picture in 1953.
Girl,
Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen
book - RC 464 .K36 A3 1993
movie - PN 1997 .G48 2000 Video tape
Memoir
of the author’s two years on the ward for teenage girls at a
psychiatric facility.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1999.
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The
Hours / Michael Cunningham
book - PS 3553 .U484 H68 1998
movie - PN 1997 .H678 2003 Video disc
Three interwoven novellas in
varying degrees connected to Virginia Woolf.
Originally
released as a motion picture in 2002.
One
Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
book - PS 3561 .E667 O5 1976
movie - PN 1997 .O569 1997 Video disc
Chronicles
the head-on collision between hell-raising, life-affirming
hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big
Nurse.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1975.
Ordinary
People / Judith Guest
book - PS 3557 .U345 O7 1976
movie - PN 1997 .O72 1980 Video tape
Shows how
ordinary individuals and families can come undone by events
beyond their control.
Originally
released as a motion picture in 1980.
A River
Runs Through It, and Other Stories / Norman Maclean
book - PS 3563 .A317993 R5 1976
movie - PN 1997 .R576 1993 Video tape
Set
in western Montana and amongst some of the finest fly fishing
rivers in the state, the author tells the tale of one
brother's alcoholism and the other brother's inability to
help.
Originally
released as a motion picture in 1992.
Schindler’s
List / Thomas Keneally
book - PR 9619.3 .K46 S3 1983
movie - PN 1997 .S28 1994 Video tape
Work of fiction based on the true
story of German industrialist and war profiteer, Oskar
Schindler, who gambled his life and fortune to rescue 1,300
Jews from the gas chambers.
Originally released as a motion
picture in 1993. |
