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Callas, Maria 1923-1977 Carthusians. Federal Correctional Institution (Danbury, Conn.) Grande Chartreuse (France) Kerman, Piper Monks Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography Reformatories for women Connecticut Danbury Rites and ceremonies Women prisoners Connecticut DanburyCook, William R. (William Robert)
Summary: This 24-lecture course is intended to help you analyze and appreciate the long poem by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) known as the Divine Comedy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 851.1 COO V.1Call number: CD 851.1 COO V.2
Summary: "'I see multiple colonial governors,' says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. 'We are held captive by the donor community.' The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry - the business of doing good has never been better. Yet, the results...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: www.povertyinc.org 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF POVSummary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANSummary: In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a "Pro-American Rally." Images of George Washington hung next to swastikas and speakers railed against the "Jewish controlled media" and called for a return to a racially "pure" America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances, and TV interviews, this documentary is the first to tell the life story of the Greek-American opera soprano completely in her own words.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MARStapleton, Alex
Summary: Profiles the independent motion picture writer, director, and producer Roger Corman, featuring archival and contemporary footage and interviews with Hollywood icons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Belasco, Andrew/ Bergman, Dave/ Trivette, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An extensive biography of the American film producer and director William Castle, with a focus on his classic horror films. Castle was famous for directing films with many gimmicks which were ambitiously promoted, despite being reasonably low budget B-movies. Includes extensive film clips and commentary by his family, friends and actors, producers, directors and film historians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Automat Pictures 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPISummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTLerman, Paul
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 1981
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 362.21 LERGerman, Roger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.5 GERHelman, Andrea.
Summary: Teaches children about flora and fauna, featuring color photographs and facts about 23 animals from the refuge, from bearded seals to beluga whales.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sasquatch Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.9798 HELKerman, Piper.
Summary: With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424--one of the millions of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 KERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B KERMAN KERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Mem KermanTerman, D
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1979
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Place a hold to request this item.Heiman, Lee.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HEIHermann, Matthias
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Galahad Books 9730
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 581.63 HERHarman, Alice
Summary: Facing the challenges of climate change involves all of us. This book offers children truth without despair, hope without deception and a map to a better future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.738 HARHarman, Alice
Summary: Did you know that one of the first computers used water to solve equations? Or that the International Space Station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes? This book is packed with 101 eye-opening facts about all sorts of advanced machines, from computers to cars, and from spaceships to medical devices. It's the perfect book for kids aged 8 and upwards who want to know more about the world of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcturus Publishing Limited 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 600 HARGherman, Beverly.
Summary: Describes the life and work of the popular American artist who depicted subjects including children, family scenes, astronauts, and the poor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ROCKWELL GHEKerman, Piper.
Summary: "With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years ago. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to fifteen months at the infamous federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut, the well-heeled Smith College alumna is now inmate #11187-424-- one of the millions of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media, Inc. 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 365.43 KERMacadam, Heather Dune
Summary: On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents' homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women--many of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 MACMacadam, Heather Dune
Summary: "Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Done, Phillip
Summary: "After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. The result is this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2022