Summary: Mabel Lederer has spent her life denying her talent for the supernatural - and her stodgy husband Hughie wouldn’t even acknowledge it. But when Hughie dies, even his continued complaining from the grave cannot stop Mabel’s determination to break away and rediscover her life. Estelle Parsons plays this whimsical character who makes up her life as she goes along. Also starring Barbara Baxley,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1981
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Jones, Shirley
Summary: Shirley Jones is an American film legend of the first order, having starred in Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man, as well as playing her Oscar-winning role as a prostitute in Elmer Gantry long before The Partridge Family. On that iconic show, she portrayed the epitome of American motherhood, a symbol to generations of families in the 1970s, and she remains a cult icon today.But for those...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday, Gallery Books 2013
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JONES, SHIRLEY JONJackson, Shirley
Summary: The Road Through the Wall explores the secret longings, petty hatreds and ultimate terrors that lurk behind the manicured lawns and picture-perfect domestic facades of a California suburb. In Hangsaman, precocious Natalie Waite grows increasingly dependent on a friend who may or may not be imaginary. The Bird's Nest pits four unforgettable characters against each other in a battle for control:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2020
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Contents: With these hands -- As long as he needs me (from the Broadway production Oliver) -- You'll never know -- Climb ev'ry mountain (from the Broadway musical The sound of music) -- Reach for the stars -- I'll get by (as long as I have you) -- Tonight (from the motion picture West Side story) -- Ave Maria -- Far away -- What now my love (et maintenant) -- I (who have nothing) = Uno dei tanti) -- My...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ BASShirley, Don
Contents: Disc 1. Plays love songs: Tenderly -- Something to remember you by -- What is there to say -- Answer me my love -- I'm in the mood for love -- These foolish things -- I'll be around -- I can't get started with you -- Secret love -- It could happen to you. Disc 2. Don Shirley Trio: Water boy -- Where's my Bess -- In a Moorish market place -- The man I love -- This nearly was mine -- Blue skies...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SHISummary: In this program, Bill Moyers talks with Shirley Young, an inspiring woman who survived the Japanese occupation of the Philippines to become a pioneer of market research with Grey Advertising. Later, as a vice president of General Motors, she helped launch GM's operation in China, the country of her birth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Abbott, Shirley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: H.N. Abrams 1981
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973 ABBGlubok, Shirley.
Summary: A survey of American art from 1940 to the present which includes "white writing," action painting, abstract expressionism, op art, pop art, stabiles, and kinetic sculpture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1976
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 709 GLUHalperin, Shirley.
Summary: A celebration of the hit show "American Idol" chronicles each season with profiles of the finalists, judges, and winners, and includes more than seven hundred images depicting memorable moments from the show's ten-year history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Image 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.45 HALContents: Japanese Relocation (2:32) -- Japanese-American Soldiers in Combat (1:59) -- The Gothic Line (2:15) -- Allied Diversionary Attack (4:45) -- British Diversionary Attack (4:06) -- German Retreat (3:37) -- Credits: 'Battle of the Gothic Line' (1:05) --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)
Summary: "Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection ofclassic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVGoerz, Gillian
Summary: Starting a new school in the fall with her friend Shirley, everything is going well for Jamila until Shirley pulls her into a new assignment: stop Chuck Milton, a school bully who is using blackmail and intimidation to become school president--an assignment that will involve a bit of breaking and entering.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOEBronte, Charlotte
Contents: Shirley -- The professor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROSummary: Gothic fiction by more than 40 known and unknown writers. They range from William Sansom's A Woman Seldom Found, on an encounter in Rome between a man and a woman, to Paul Bowle's Allal, on an Arab boy who switches bodies with a snake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMEGoerz, Gillian
Summary: "Jamila Waheed does not want to spend her first summer in a new neighborhood at science camp when she could be shooting hoops at the local basketball court. And Shirley Bones is looking for a summer of freedom too. When the two girls meet, they quickly figure out a solution for each other's predicaments: Their moms agree to let them spend the summer together, hanging out on the basketball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 GOERedmond, Shirley-Raye
Summary: Profiles girls and women who participated in the American Revolution by refusing to buy British merchandise, collecting money, and even going to war as wives, nurses, spies, or soldiers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.3 REDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.308 REDTyminski, Dan
Summary: A 25-year member of Alison Krauss's Union Station, Tyminski is also the singing voice of George Clooney's character in O Brother, Where Art Thou?. His latest solo venture features songs that hold a mirror up to today's society.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury Nashville 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK TYMSummary: In 1993, Mohammed Aideed's militia triumphantly paraded U.S. corpses through the streets of Mogadishu. In stunning irony, Mohammed's son, Hussein, though not a representative of Somalia's official government, now offers the U.S. strategic bases. This program presents a candid interview with Somalia's de facto leader, a warlord with unusual credentials: American citizen, former Marine, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Shirley Clarke was brilliant, scandalous, bold, and incredibly talented. Had she been a man, film historians would have long ago placed her in the pantheon of great auteurs, alongside Orson Welles and John Cassavetes. Today, her triumph can be recognized in her ability to be herself--one of the great originals of her time. A true artist, Clarke combined her innate impishness and sense of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MAGSummary: Visit Trinity, South Carolina, a small town with more chills than charm. Sheriff Lucas Buck won't let anyone--including local doctor Matt Crower or the determined Gail Emory--stand in the way of his evil plans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMEBolden, Tonya
Summary: "A biography of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first Black woman to run for president with a major political party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CHISterling, Bruce.
Contents: I. Favela chic -- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google -- Kiosk -- The hypersurface of this decade -- White fungus -- The exterminator's want ad -- II. Dark euphoria. -- Esoteric city -- The parthenopean scalpel -- The lustration -- III. Gothic high-tech. -- Windsor exectutive solutions / by Chris Nakashima-Brown and Bruce Sterling -- A plain tale from our hills -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEOffspring (Musical group)
Contents: Welcome -- Have you ever -- Staring at the sun -- Pretty fly (for a white guy) -- The kids aren't alright -- Feelings -- She's got issues -- Walla walla -- The end of the line -- No brakes -- Why don't you get a job? -- Americana -- Pay the man.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1998