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(PLANNING & ZONING CENTER INC) Durst-Benning, Petra Goldblatt, Peter Haining, Peter.Summary: Set in a near-future where the economy has crumbled and violent gangs play havoc in the streets, the powers-that-be have decided to lure the delinquent youth into drive-in cinemas and keep them there. No longer just a place to watch trashy movies and make out, these outdoor picture shows have become concentration camps for the unruly and unwanted. Two people have mistakenly been sent there, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR DEAGoldblatt, Peter
Contents: Plant form -- Natural history -- Evolution and classification -- Systematics of the Iris family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 584.38 GOLSummary: This miniseries opens in Berkeley, California in 1938, where pampered, tenured professors, safe on the shores of peaceful America, dabble in radical politics as the world heads inevitably towards war. J. Robert Oppenheimer is such a one. Two events--one personal, one scientific--combine to change Oppy's life forever and catapult him from a moderately successful theoretician to a world famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV OPPHaining, Peter.
Summary: Argues that the legendary character Sweeney Todd was an actual historical figure who committed his crimes in eighteenth-century London and was victimized by the poverty and crime that was prevalent in the underworld of that time period.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 TODD, SWEENEY HAIHaining, Peter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Allen 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.4572 HAIDurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: It isn't easy for a woman to cut loose in 1890s Berlin. But the winds of change are blowing, and nothing can stop Josephine from pursuing her dreams. After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new invention called the "velocipede." The very idea of a woman on a bicycle is beyond taboo --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2012(PLANNING & ZONING CENTER INC)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 306.1 GRADurst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "In the village of Lauscha in Germany, things have been done the same way for centuries. The men blow the glass, and the women decorate and pack it. But when glassblower Joost Steinmann passes away unexpectedly one September night, his three daughters must learn to fend for themselves. While feisty Johanna takes a practical approach to looking for work, Ruth follows her heart, aiming to catch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazoncrossing 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Durst-Benning 2014Durst-Benning, Petra
Summary: "In 1905, on her twenty-sixth birthday, Mimi Reventlow receives a marriage proposal from the vicar of her family's church. But a future of housework, childcare, and servicing a parish doesn't appeal to the restless and unconventional Mimi. She has ambitions of her own - to follow in the footsteps of her beloved uncle Josef and become a traveling photographer. Leaving behind all that has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020