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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Kocsis, 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 --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Philips Classics 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KOC

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Classics 2005

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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GRA

Dumas, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUM

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 :...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHA

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BUR

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009

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Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia Ltd. 2009

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Stefoff, Rebecca

Summary: "Weaving together the behind-the-scenes history of the Eiffel Tower with an account of the 1889 World's Fair in Paris for which the tower was built, Jonnes creates a vivid, lively pageant of people and cultures meeting--and competing. The book opens a window into a piece of the past that, in its passions and politics, feels timelessly modern: art, science, business, entertainment, gossip,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2019

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 907.4 STE

Osborne, Mary Pope.

Summary: Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSB

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC OSB

Alvarez, Julia.

Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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Watson, William Henry

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Conference 1961

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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 280.4 Watson Vol. 2

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.3 WHI

Contents: 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...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIR

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books/Library of America 1991

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 811.3 WHI

Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Brown 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 WHI

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

Contents: Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky -- Etude in F major [op. 25, no. 3] ; Waltz in A minor [op. 34, no. 2] / Chopin -- Pictures at an exhibition / Mussorgsky ; arr. Ravel.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1994

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Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Summary: Through the intervention of four ghosts, Ebenezer Scrooge is shown the spirit of Christmas.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 1988

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Dickens, Charles 1812-1870

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Readers Digest 1987

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Lanman, Charles 1819-1895

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1978

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 LAN

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977 Lanma

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996

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Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 3