Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Modiano, Patrick

Summary: Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOD

Summary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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Doyle, Patrick

Contents: Eragon -- Roran leaves -- Saphira's first flight -- Ra'zag -- Burning farm -- Fortune teller -- If you were flying -- Brom's story -- Durza -- Passing the flame -- Battle for Varden -- Together -- Saphira returns -- Legend of Eragon -- Keep holding on / Avril Lavigne -- Once in every lifetime / Jem.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: RCA 2006

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Doyle, Patrick

Contents: In pace (Plácido Domingo, vocal) (3:07) -- Fanfare (0:48) -- All that lives must die (2:40) -- To thine own self be true (3:04) -- The ghost (9:55) -- Give me up the truth (1:05) -- What a piece of work is a man (1:50) -- What players are they (1:33) -- Out out thou strumpet fortune (3:11) -- To be or not to be (1:53) -- I loved you once (3:27) -- Oh, what a noble mind (2:41) -- If once a widow...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1996

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Doyle, Patrick

Contents: Touch the sky ; Into the open air (performed by Julie Fowlis) -- Learn me right (performed by Birdy ; with Mumford & Sons) -- Fate and destiny -- The games -- I am Merida -- Remember to smile -- Merida rides away -- The witch's cottage -- Song of Mor'du (performed by Billy Connolly and cast) -- Through the castle -- Legends are lessons -- Show us the way -- Mum goes wild -- In her heart --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2012

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Doyle, Patrick.

Contents: Weep you no more sad fountains (3:05) -- A particular sum (1:15) -- My father's favorite (5:27) -- Preying penniless woman (1:32) -- Devonshire (1:04) -- Not a beau for miles (1:57) -- All the better for her (1:17) -- Felicity (1:22) -- Patience (1:42) -- Grant me an interview (1:05) -- All the delights of the season (1:14) -- Steam engine (1:19) -- Willoughby (1:39) -- Miss Grey (2:21) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1995

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Summary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME

Summary: In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt, a lady who throws a party for any occasion or non-occasion that comes to mind.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUN

Summary: "Michael Curtiz brings a master skipper's hand to the helm of this thriller, Hollywood's second crack at Ernest Hemingway's To Have And Have Not. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, an honest charter-boat captain who, facing hard times, take on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRE

Summary: The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOW

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2016

Summary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Lewis, J. Patrick

Summary: The powerful poems in this poignant collection weave together multiple voices to tell the story of the March on Washington, DC, in 1963. From the woman singing through a terrifying bus ride to DC, to the teenager who came partly because his father told him, "Don't you dare go to that march," to the young child riding above the crowd on her father's shoulders, each voice brings a unique...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: WordSong, an imprint of Highlights 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 811 LEW

Cole, Nat King 1917-1965

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Music Inc. 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM Cole

Summary: A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLA

Doyle, Arthur Conan

Summary: The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find:

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOY

Summary: Endeavour and his colleagues are entering a new decade and era of change. Opening on New Year's Eve 1969, normal order has been resumed and the team reunited at Castle Gate CID, with Chief Superintendent Bright back in charge. However, the events of the past year have left their mark. Old friendships will be challenged, and new relationships will blossom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV END

Joyce, Patrick

Summary: "A landmark new history of the peasant experience, exploring a now neglected way of life that once encompassed most of humanity but is vanishing in our time. For over the past century and a half, and still more rapidly in the last seventy years, the world has become increasingly urban, and the peasant way of life--the dominant way of life for humanity since agriculture began well over 6,000...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 JOY

Scott, Joyce (Joyce Wallace)

Summary: "An introduction to the life and art of Judith Scott, a renowned artist. Judith Scott was born with Down syndrome. She was deaf, and never learned to speak. She was also a talented artist. Judith was institutionalized until her sister Joyce reunited with her and enrolled her in an art class. Judith went on to become an artist of renown with her work displayed in museums and galleries around the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCO

Mattick, Lindsay

Summary: "An imagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear, from her early days in the Canadian forest to her travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of Winnie-the-Pooh"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MAT

Summary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIG

Summary: An American classic story about friendship heroism and patriotism; Watch a 50 year journey on the lives of four best friends as they reminisce after a funeral of one best friend.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: American Patriot Pictures 2013

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STI