Summary: A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Based on the novella by Thomas Mann, this late masterpiece from Luchino...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DEAMann, Thomas
Summary: An awkward teenage filmmaker becomes friends with a classmate with cancer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEMann, Thomas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MANMann, Thomas
Summary: A story about a writer of world renown and his slow spiral to a degrading sensuality and eventual death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: [CreateSpace] 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 438.4 FIC MANMann, Thomas E.
Summary: Outlines recommendations for ending obstructionist tactics and barriers to compromise, suggesting specific institutional restructuring measures while calling on the public and media to work with government to correct problems.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 MANGryta, Thomas
Summary: "How could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic corporation-suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Since its founding in 1892, General Electric has been more than just a corporation: it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business education for top managers. GE electrified America, from lightbulbs to turbines, and became fully integrated into the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.7 GRYSummary: The show reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. In the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KONSummary: A reimagining of the origin of the mythic Kong in a compelling, original adventure. A diverse team of explorers are brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific, as beautiful as it is treacherous, unaware that they're crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: And the Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn't over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie's basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie's trap,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HALSummary: Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs officiates over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who freely take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter Mara prepares for her wedding day under the observant eye of Hope Slaughter, Mara reveals a deadly secret that threatens to shatter the entire community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR THE 1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF THEAndrews, Jesse.
Summary: Up until senior year, Greg has maintained total social invisibility. He only has one friend, Earl, and together they spend their time--when not playing video games and avoiding Earl's terrifying brothers--making movies, their own versions of Coppola and Herzog cult classics. Greg would be the first one to tell you his movies are f*@$ing terrible, but he and Earl don't make them for other...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on James Franco's "Palo Alto Stories" and "A California Childhood", Ivan Cohen is a young boy living in Palo Alto, California. Unsatisfied by his slacker group of friends, his love for a girl who doesn't know he exists, and a dysfunctional family life, he is struggling to find his place in the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Monterey 2016
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Summary: A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERDionne, E. J
Summary: Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017