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Summary: Ned Kelly, the legendary nineteenth-century Australian folk-hero, describes how he, his brother, and two friends led authorities on a twenty-month manhunt, marked by widespread populist support, before his capture and execution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARSummary: Collection of eight classic stories. Swashbuckling pirates, talking rabbits in top hats, majestic horses, and flittering fairies spring into action, setting into motion the tales that have delighted audiences for ages.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gaiam 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY STOSummary: 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 ISummary: A man travels the Mississippi on a steamboat, making money to hire a lawyer to clear his nephew's name; upholding the law in a small southern town, Judge Billy Priest also plays matchmaker for his nephew; a country doctor upsets his small town when he has an affair with a widow; a young man's efforts to become a hero are thwarted when he joins the Armed Forces but is posted in his home town;...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOHSummary: Although we pass by people constantly during our everyday lives, some interactions make a much bigger impression than others. For one young man, a run-in with outlaw Billy the Kid will end up defining the rest of his life. Of course, it's not a normal day in Billy's life either. Facing off with Sheriff Pat Garrett, Billy will soon discover whether or not he can live up to his own bold legend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE KIDSummary: Gypsy Esmerelda and malformed bellringer Quasimodo fall victim to the machinations of church and underworld leaders in medieval Paris.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Garwood, W. R. (William R.)
Summary: "Texas Ranger John Ringold rides into Tombstone on detached service. His mission - to go undercover as John Ringo and stamp out the gangs ravaging Wells Fargo in a string of unsolved robberies and murder. Ringo tackles the desperate job of running down the night-riding bandits, headed by the mysterious robber chieftan "Saguro," only to find himself hurled into a head-on confrontation with the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VINSummary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MISSummary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATEDGregory, Philippa.
Summary: A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREDiehl, August
Summary: Follows the early lives of Karl Marx, his wife Jenny, and Friedrich Engels, as they roam between Paris, Brussels, and London, helping to lead the developing labor movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF YOUSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Henry II surprises England by naming his fellow rogue and trusted confidant Thomas Becket as Chancellor. But when Henry next appoints him Archbishop of Canterbury, Becket shocks the world by openly defying the King with his newfound faith and compassion. Will a desperate ruler now destroy a beloved friend to save his splintering kingdom?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BECSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in an early nineteenth-century, gossip-driven English town, seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson faces a world of change when her long-widowed physician father remarries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIVIggulden, Conn.
Summary: Winter 1461--Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable. Yet in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC IGGHilleman, Andrew
Summary: "Resurrecting a forgotten American folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice, World, Chase Me Down is a debut novel of adrenaline-fueled, page-turning suspense based on the first great crime of the last century: the revenge kidnapping by out-of-work former butcher Pat Crowe of the sixteen-year-old son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon--the man who forced him...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILSummary: A painstakingly detailed adaptation of the Tolstoy novel which follows the interconnected lives of a group of Russian aristocrats from 1805 to 1812, including Napoleon's invasion of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WARPenman, Sharon Kay
Summary: The Christian ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem following the First Crusade, Baudouin IV, struggles to hold his throne despite political intrigue, personal health risks, and the growing threat of Saladin and his army.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PENLacey, Josh.
Summary: Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LACSummary: In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2013