Central Skagit Library District

The saga of Kennedy's wartime exploits as skipper of a PT boat in the Solomon Islands. The assignment: harass the enemy and buy time for a U.S. Navy still on the drawing boards. In August 1943, PT 109 was sliced in half by a Japanese destroyer. Kennedy led his surviving crew through a sea aflame from gasoline, towing a badly burned sailor miles to the nearest island. There seemed little hope of rescue from the Japanese-dominated area, until a strategy...

It's a Cinderella's fabled footwear for this dance-and-fantasy-infused retelling of the fairy tale. She moves from sooty drudge to radiant belle of the ball with pluck, resourcefulness and the aid of a loopy fairy godmother.

A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist.

Texas oil executive Mac is dispatched by his crackpot boss to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens, and Texas starts to feel awfully far away.

An on-the-skids Broadway director takes a job at West Point staging a musical written by one of the young cadets.

A boy witnesses the murder of his parents at the hands of three men. He devotes his whole life to finding these men in order to kill them.

William Bligh, a real-life sea captain who, in 1787, steered The Bounty on a 27,000-mile voyage into danger, chaos and madness. After 31 days of battling severe sea squalls and Bligh's ever-increasing cruelty, the weary crew is relieved to finally land on a remote island. But soon their tyrannical captain wants to sail again, and the desperate men turn to first mate Fletcher Christian to help them take the ship back, or die trying.

The boy Kim knows how to scrounge up a hot meal in India's bustling cities, how to scamper catlike across rooftops, and disguise himself as a local and conceal his Anglo heritage. To Kim, these are just ways to be free. To colonial British intelligence, they're skills it knows will be useful when it makes Kim a spy.

Circuit judge Richard Thorne comes to a small western town in the course of making his rounds and discovers that it is under the feudal thumb of an oldline family headed by Josiah Bannerman. Despite opposition and obstacles, Thorne fingers Bannerman's spoiled son and defies the whole clan by seeing that justice is done. In doing so he wins the grudging respect of the old cattle baron, gains the love of the baron's niece, and awakens the sheriff to...

With her husband Tim off to war, Anne Hilton struggles to be a pillar of strength for her daughters Jane and Bridget. During America's darkest hours, she bravely steers her girls through heartbreak and hardships as she eagerly awaits news from overseas and wonders if life will ever be the same.