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1) Gold Digger
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
It's the spring of 1898, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, is the most exciting town in North America. The great Klondike Gold Rush is in full swing and Fiona MacGillivray has crawled over the Chilkoot Pass determined to make her fortune as the owner of the Savoy dance hall. Provided, that is, that her twelve-year-old son, growing up much too fast for her liking; the former Glasgow street fighter who's now her business partner; a stern, handsome NWMP constable;...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition.
A floundering second-generation teenager growing up in the Bush-era Atlanta suburbs, Neil Narayan is funny and smart but struggles to bear the weight of expectations of his family and their Asian American enclave. He tries to want their version of success, but...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Receiving unwanted attention after foiling an armed robbery, the unhuman Inspector Hobbes takes a long-overdue camping holiday, with Andy, his accident-prone friend, and Dregs, the delinquent dog. In the bleak and dangerous Blacker Mountains, Andy stumbles across something shocking, before falling for an attractive widow, while Hobbes wonders why an old gold mine has reopened. On their return to the sleepy Cotswold town of Sorenchester, Hobbes is...
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play two young hopefuls struggling to make it on Broadway. Even falling in love has its hardships, as Powell's high-brow Eastern family is determined to break them (and the show) up. More complications set in when his brother falls for Keeler's wise-cracking roommate.
5) Gold Digger
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
On her 60th birthday, Julia hits it off with handsome young Benjamin. But their whirlwind romance is marred by the disapproval of Julia's adult children. Does Benjamin truly love her, or is he the gold digger her family believes him to be?
6) Gold Diggers
Pub. Date
2009
Description
As two young girls embark on a quest for a legendary treasure, they discover an even more valuable prize- the enduring power of loyality and friendship .
7) Klondike
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel North West during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters.
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"It's summer season at New England's Wentworth Plaza Hotel. And that means it's time for the rich to come out to play--and for gold diggers of every persuasion to try to reel in a sucker or two. Dick Powell heads the cast of this musical romp, playing a desk clerk who agrees to be a gentlemanly escort for the sheltered daughter (Gloria Stuart) of a wealthy widow"--Container.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"One look at Baby Doe and you know she was meant to be a legend! She was just twenty years old when she came to Colorado to work a gold mine with her new husband. Little did she expect that she’d be abandoned and pregnant and left to manage the gold mine alone. But that didn’t stop her! She moved to Leadville and fell in love with a married prospector, twice her age. Horace Tabor struck the biggest silver vein in history, divorced his wife and...
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Grandfather and Roo volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A series of letters from Grandfather reveal his adventures in Australia with the remarkable little dog Roo, as he seeks his long-lost older brother, Uncle Vincent, who went there to find gold when he was seventeen.
Pub. Date
♭2010
Description
42nd Street (1933, 89 min.): The movie musical that introduced the choreography of Busby Berkeley, 42nd Street also contains the classic plot involving a tyrannical director, egotistical leading lady and wide-eyed ingňue, all set to a standout musical score.
Gold diggers of 1937 (1936, 101 min.): Rosmer Peck is an insurance agent with musical ambitions who becomes romantically involved with Norma Perry, a showgirl who has given up spangles for a...
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