Gould, Elliott

Frog ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1987 and 2005 in English and held by 429 libraries worldwide
A contemporary comedy about a young boy who befriends a talking frog.

Shelley Duvall's Tall tales & legends. Casey at the bat ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 414 libraries worldwide
A down-on-his luck baseball player follows his dreams to become the biggest star in the game. But even when striking out, the mighty Casey remains a hero for his legendary sportsmanship and good-natured play. This expansion of the famous poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer provides possible humorous origins of many baseball traditions.

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ( Visual )
11 editions published between 1982 and 2008 in English and held by 397 libraries worldwide
Bob and his wife Carol are a sophisticated California couple who attend a secluded institute for group therapy. Their original intention is to merely observe, but they become so involved that they decide to test the strength of their marital trust and honesty by experimenting with mutually tolerated affairs. Ted and Alice are their closest friends who find themselves continually amused at the latest Bob & Carol sexual adventures until finally they are invited to liberate themselves in a one-bed menage a quatre.

Kicking and screaming ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 396 libraries worldwide
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her. Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, Grover, Otis, Max and Skippy remain on campus, denying the real-world futures awaiting them. Nobody wants to radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, who tends bar and is in his tenth year. The four friends typify a generation of adults-to-be unable to reconcile their hermetic educational experience with workaday responsibility, and posing the eternal question, where do we go from here?

Forgotten Ellis Island the extraordinary story of America's immigrant hospital by Lorie Conway ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 390 libraries worldwide
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.

Capricorn One ( Visual )
18 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 379 libraries worldwide
Three astronauts are forced by NASA to participate in an elaborate hoax. Capricorn One makes the first 'manned' mission to Mars but the astronauts remain on Earth to be filmed in a studio made up to look like the Martian surface. When the empty capsule burns up on re-entry, the world believes the astronauts to be dead. A struggle ensues between the government and the astronauts whose very existence incriminates NASA.

Faerie tale theatre ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 372 libraries worldwide
This award-winning series brings to life 26 of the most magical classic fairy tales of all time, now digitally remastered.

Casey at the bat ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1986 and 1998 in English and held by 360 libraries worldwide
Even on the fateful day when Casey strikes out, he remains the hero who brought joy back to Mudville, saved the town stadium, and gave America it's national pastime.

A bridge too far ( Visual )
4 editions published between 1977 and 2007 in English and held by 322 libraries worldwide
In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to World War II by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants.

The lady in the lake by Raymond Chandler ( Recording )
11 editions published between 1987 and 2008 in English and Undetermined and held by 282 libraries worldwide
Private investigator Philip Marlowe follows the trail of a missing woman through the streets of southern California, unraveling a web of murder and deception.