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(Fictitious character) Sharpe, Richard (Fictitious character) Sharpe, Richard Drama History, Modern Study and teaching (Secondary) Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Drama Peninsular War (1807-1814) Peninsular War, 1807-1814 Drama Piano music Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 United StatesSummary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sharpe's enemy : Sharpe leads a mission to free an English colonel's wife who is hostage to a gang of lawless deserters led by an evil villain from Sharpe's past. Sharpe's honour : When a French spy frames him for dishonouring a Spanish aristocrat's wife, Sharpe faces arrest, duels, court martial and death to clear his good name and avoid damaging Britain's alliance with Spain. Sharpe's gold :...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURSummary: Sharpe's battle : Sharpe must recover stolen supply wagons and lead green troops into battle against a French general whose " chief weapon is horror." Sharpe's sword : Under orders to protect Wellington's master spy from the French, Sharpe finds himself in a fight for his life against "Boney's" best swordsman, Leroux. Sharpe's regiment : In a race against time to expose corruption in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Sharpe's rifles : Sharpe saves Wellesley's life and is promoted to Lieutenant. He is put in command of the Chosen men, a crack regiment of riflemen who resist acknowledging his authority. Sharpe's eagle : When the French seize the King's Colours and Sharpe loses an old friend in battle, he steadfastly, but quietly swears to avenge the officer's death and restore England's honour. Sharpe's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRSummary: Miss Phryne Fisher is a lady detective from Melbourne with a fabulous sense of fun and a flair for solving crimes.In a country reemerging from the shadow of World War I, Phryne takes life in her stride, and murder too. Detective Inspector Jack Robinson works alongside her, although she often outraces him to the crime scene. Season three includes eight all new episodes of the glamorous,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MIS NOT RATEDSummary: Salty saga of the bravest skipper ever to sail the seas- Captain Horatio Hornblower. The English Captain sailed during the Napoleonic era, and out thought, outmaneuvered and outfought his rivals, but was more than a little at sea when faced with a beautiful woman!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CAPSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Richter, Sviatoslav
Contents: Sonata no. 60 in C, H. XVI/50 / Haydn -- Scherzo no. 4 in E, op. 54 ; Ballade no. 3 in A-flat, op. 47 ; Etudes, op. 10. No. 10 in A-flat ; No. 12 in C minor : Revolutionary ; Mazurka in C, op. 24 no. 2 / Chopin -- Preludes. Op. 23 no. 1 ; Op. 32 nos. 9, 10 and 12 / Rachmaninoff -- Jeux d'eau ; La vallee des cloches / Ravel -- Sonata no. 6 in A, op. 82 ; Visions fugitives, op. 22. Nos. 3, 4, 5,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Red Seal 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RichtSummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLHill, Frederic B.
Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HILKocsis, Zoltan.
Contents: Lyric pieces, op. 43 / Edvard Grieg -- Romanian folk dances / Bela Bart?ok -- Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este / Franz Liszt -- Deux Arabesques ; D'un cahier d'esquisses ; Suite bergamasque ; L'isle joyeuse ; Estampes / Claude Debussy -- Piano concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40 ; Prelude in C sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2 ; Vocalise, op. 34 no. 14 (arr. by Zoltan Kocsis) / Sergei Rachmaninoff --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philips Classics 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KOCSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: At the end of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and former Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) lead their men into Mexico to begin a new life. Caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces, they find themselves fighting side by side and must forge an uneasy friendship in order to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UND(DOCUMENTS: 1805-1813)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1929
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: MIR 977.4 MICDumas, Alexandre
Summary: In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still so popular today that it scarcely needs introduction. Shortly thereafter he wrote a sequel, Twenty Years After, that resumed the adventures of his swashbuckling heroes. Later, toward the end of his career, Dumas wrote The Red Sphinx, another direct sequel to The Three Musketeers that begins, not twenty years...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUMSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUWagner, Richard
Summary: The four operas of The Ring Cycle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA RINContents: Trumpet tune and air / Purcell ; The Canadian Brass (2:50) -- Lohengrin. Bridal chorus / Wagner ; Choruses of the Bavarian Radio & Bavarian State Opera ; Bavarian Radio Symphony ; Sir Colin Davis, conductor (5:43) -- Solomon. Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / Handel ; The Canadain Brass (3:31) -- Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune / Debussy ; James Galway, flute & conductor ; Marisa Robles, harp ;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING WEDSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014