Murff, Paul B. 1897-1978

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: M.B. Ashmore 1982

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.2 Murff

Summary: An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002

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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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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: David R. Godine 1999

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Summary: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton, Mifflin and company 1883

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EME

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

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

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Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV I

Brahms, Johannes

Contents: No. 1 for piano, violin, and cello in B major, op. 8 : original version (1854) -- No. 1 for piano, violin, and cello in B major, op. 8 : revised version (1891) -- No. 2 for piano, violin, and cello in C major, op. 87 : (1883) -- No. 3 for piano, violin, and cello in C minor, op. 101 : (1887) -- For piano, violin, and natural horn (Waldhorn) or cello, or viola in E♭ major, op. 40 : (1868) -- For...

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1988

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Rachmaninov, Sergie (1873-1943)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Polygram Records, Inc. 1998

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CL Rachmaninov 1998

Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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Whitman, Walt 1819-1892

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Brown 2010

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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Contents: V.1. ALGIC RESEARCHES: General considerations -- Preliminary observations --Ojeeg Anuug, or The summer-maker -- The celestrial sisters -- Tau-Wau-Chee-Hezkaw, or The white feather -- Peboan and Seegwun: an allegory of the seasons -- The red lover -- Iamo, or The undying head -- Mon-Daw-Min, or The origin of Indian corn -- Peeta Kway, or The tempest -- Manabozho, or The Great incarnation of the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 1991

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