Catalog Search Results
1) The American
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Christopher Newman is a 19th-century 'new man' who has amassed a fortune in California, and heads to Paris to learn its ways and find a wife. There he finds a young widow whose beauty ignites desire in the American.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A town's lone African American woman is surrounded by social isolation and deep-seated racism while working as a housekeeper. Set in rural Iowa in the early 1900s, Cora is confronted with death, abortion and loneliness. Working as a domestic, she lives only for her daughter and the neglected child of her employers.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Two Navajo policemen search for the truth behind the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market, delving into the underworld of illegal archaeological excavations and Navajo superstition and lore.
Series
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1890s Colorado, young Thea escapes the narrow confines of her world to become a world-famous opera singer, defining herself in a man's world.
A young woman escapes from rural Colorado to become a world-famous opera singer in Willa Cather's powerful tale of an artist's self-discovery. Based in part on Cather's own experiences growing up on the frontier, the story tells how Thea Kronborg develops a passion for music and seeks fulfillment beyond...
Similar Searches
These searches are similar to the search you tried. Would you like to try one of these instead?
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request