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Based on the Books service being discontinued

Mid-Continent Public Library announced that this service will no longer be provided after October 2, 2023. If you are from another library and wish to explore providing this service, please contact Library Systems Manager Nathan Wittmaier at nwittmaier@mymcpl.org.
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Browse: Book Title | Book Author | Book Year | Movie Title | Movie Year

Movie Release Year: 1940

  

Movie Book
And One Was Beautiful (1940) And One Was Beautiful (short story) / Miller , Alice Duer
Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) Anne of Windy Poplars / Montgomery, L.M.
Arizona (1940) Arizona / Kelland, Clarence Budington
Calling Philo Vance (1940) Kennel Murder Case, The / Van Dine, S.S.
Captain Caution (1940) Captain Caution: A Chronicle of Arundel / Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
Captain Is a Lady, The (1940) Old Lady Number 31 /
Chad Hanna (1940) Red Wheels Rolling / Edmonds, Walter D.
City for Conquest (1940) City for Conquest / Kandel, Aben
Cross-Country Romance (1940) Highway to Romance / Browne, Eleanor
Dark Command (1940) Dark Command / Burnett, W.R.
Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) Drums of Fu Manchu / Rohmer, Sax
Escape (1940) Escape / Stone, Grace Zaring
Five Little Peppers at Home (1940) Five Little Peppers and How They Grew / Sidney, Margaret
Five Little Peppers in Trouble (1940) Five Little Peppers and How They Grew / Sidney, Margaret
Flowing Gold (1940) Flowing Gold / Beach, Rex
Granny Get Your Gun (1940) Case of the Dangerous Dowager, The / Gardner, Erle Stanley
Grapes of Wrath, The (1940) Grapes of Wrath, The / Steinbeck, John
Green Archer, The (1940) Green Archer, The / Wallace, Edgar
Her First Romance (1940) Her Fathers Daughter / Stratton-Porter, Gene
House of the Seven Gables, The (1940) House of the Seven Gables, The / Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Howards of Virginia, The (1940) Tree of Liberty, The / Page, Elizabeth
I Love You Again (1940) I Love You Again / Cohen, Octavus Roy
It All Came True (1940) Better Than Life (short story) / Bromfield, Louis
Kitty Foyle (1940) Kitty Foyle / Morley, Christopher
Laddie (1940) Laddie: A True Blue Story / Stratton-Porter, Gene
Law and Order (1940) Saint Johnson / Burnett, W.R.
Letter, The (1940) Letter, The / Maugham, W. Somerset
Light of the Western Stars, The (1940) Light of the Western Stars, The / Grey, Zane
Little Orvie (1940) Little Orvie / Tarkington, Booth
Man from Dakota, The (1940) Arouse and Beware / Kantor, MacKinlay
Mark of Zorro, The (1940) Curse of the Capistrano, The (short story) / McCulley, Johnston
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940) Private Practice of Michael Shayne, The / Halliday, Brett
Mortal Storm, The (1940) Mortal Storm, The /
My Son, My Son! (1940) My Son, My Son! / Spring, Howard
North West Mounted Police (1940) Royal Canadian Mounted Police, The / Fetherstonhaugh, R.C.
Northwest Passage (1940) Northwest Passage / Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
One Night in the Tropics (1940) Love Insurance / Biggers, Earl Derr
Pinocchio (1940) Adventures of Pinocchio, The / Collodi, Carlo
Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride and Prejudice / Austen, Jane
Primrose Path (1940) February Hill / Lincoln, Victoria
Rebecca (1940) Rebecca / Du Maurier, Daphne
River's End (1940) River's End, The / Curwood, James Oliver
Seventeen (1940) Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William / Tarkington, Booth
Sky Bandits (1940) Renfrew Rides the Sky / Erskine, Laurie York
Strange Cargo (1940) Not Too Narrow - Not Too Deep / Sale, Richard
Swiss Family Robinson, The (1940) Swiss Family Robinson, The / Wyss, Johann David
They Drive by Night (1940) They Drive by Night /
Those Were the Days (1940) At Good Old Siwash /