Burgess, Anthony
Summary: Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile deliquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 1986
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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurgess, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 824.914 BURBurgess, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURBurgess, Anthony
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recruited to spy for Russia in 1934. Fueled by youthful idealism, a passion for social justice, a talent for lying and a hatred for fascism, the four take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow. Across almost 20 years of spying and treachery, the four are bound by their beliefs, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAMPowell, Robert
Summary: The story of Jesus Christ from his birth through his resurrection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESSummary: Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Videos 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alex is a teenage hooligan, in a near-future England, who gets jailed by the police. There, he volunteers for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually, nearly dying, he becomes a major government embarrassment and they arrange to cure him of his cure. He and his gang break into an author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI CLOContents: Eric Ambler, from A coffin for Dimitrios -- Anthony Burgess, from Tremor of intent -- Joseph Conrad, from Under western eyes -- Maxim Gorky, from The spy -- Graham Greene, from The quiet American -- John Le Carré, from The honourable schoolboy -- Compton Mackenzie, from Water on the brain -- W. Somerset Maugham, from Ashenden -- Charles McCarry, from The tears of autumn -- Baroness Emmuska...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOOSummary: With the end of the Second World War, the cultural period W. H. Auden named the Age of Anxiety had begun-a time characterized by an intensifying fear of nuclear Armageddon as the Iron Curtain fell across Europe and the Cold War spread across the globe. This program examines the evolution of the British novel during the period 1945-69, spotlighting J. R. R. Tolkien, William Golding, Iris...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: Anthony Burgess examines Orwell's achievement, starting with the accuracy of his predictions for the future. Burgess shows how the novel 1984 sprang from the main concerns of Orwell's earlier work and suggests that Orwell identified areas in which human freedom has always been, and continues to be, threatened.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Banned in 1920 yet subsequently lionized for its compelling characterization, breadth of humor, and use of the stream-of-consciousness technique, James Joyce's Ulysses expanded the literary possibilities of the novel. This program presents an extraordinary dramatization of Joyce's well-known rendering of the Odysseus epic. The late writer and critic Anthony Burgess and Professor Clive Hart, of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Lethem, Jonathan
Summary: "A collection of bestselling, NBCC prize-winning author Jonathan Lethem's finest writing on the subject of writers and writing. A readerly wake-up call from one of America's finest and most acclaimed working writers. Picking up where his NBCC Award finalist collection The Ecstasy of Influence left off, More Alive and Less Lonely collects more than a decade of Lethem's finest writing on writing,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 LETAnderson, M. T.
Summary: For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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O'Connell, John
Summary: ""The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from." --David Bowie // Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities. // In 100 short essays, music journalist John O'Connell studies each book on Bowie's list...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 OCOPappa, Anthony.
Contents: Disc 1. Narcotik -- Moonface -- Two right wrongans -- Timo Maas Pres. Mad dogs -- Pascal F.E.O.S. -- Sloth and Dormant -- Sphere -- Trancesetters -- Medway -- Odessi -- Nova -- Dune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Global Underground 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC PAPBourdain, Anthony
Summary: "On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BOUAnthony, Ray.
Summary: Ray Anthony plays worried mind ; I almost lost my mind
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI-Capitol 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING ANTBurgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)
Summary: Granny teaches Reddy Fox many lessons about humility, selflessness, patience, and other virtues in stories about the animals that live in the Green Meadow and Green Forest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 2001
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION BurMiles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Contents: Buriedfed -- Debtor -- Woodfriend -- Who's laughing? -- Ongoing debate concerning present vs. future -- My good luck -- Written over -- Mountaineerd -- Above the sun -- Boneindian
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Publisher / Publication Date: Say Hey Records 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BENLittle Anthony
Summary: Features highlights from each style of their career, whether it be the doo-wop era or their foray into pop and soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES LITFokker, Anthony H. G. (Anthony Herman Gerard)
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1931