Davidson, Susanna
Summary: "Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from the Greek Myths celebrates heroines from Circe to Psyche, from Athena to Artemis, re-telling their stories to inspire and empower a new generation of readers. Watch as Penelope cunningly outwits her suitors and discover how Artemis defeats two giants. See Circe perform powerful magic and follow Demeter on her brave search for her missing daughter....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Usborne Publishing Limited 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DAVGlymph, Thavolia
Summary: "Historians of the Civil War often speak of "wars within a war"--the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides acomprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War--North and South, white and black, slave and free--showing how women were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7082 GLYNyman, Michael.
Contents: Chasing sheep is best left to shepherds -- The garden is becoming a robe room -- An eye for optical theory -- A watery death -- The disposition of the linen -- Queen of the night -- Bravura in the face of grief.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MNrecords 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC DRANyman, Risa
Summary: After Rocky's dad dies and he over hears his mom admit that her story about how he died was bogus, his trust unravels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Nyman 2020Montenegro, Laura Nyman.
Summary: Visiting a furniture store, a young girl falls in love with an old dresser, but can't pay for it until the dresser's stuck drawer provides a solution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MONContents: To the edge of the earth (4:06) -- Big my secret (2:51) -- A wild and distant shore (5:50) -- The heart asks pleasure first (1:33) -- Here to there (1:02) -- The promise (4:14) -- A bed of ferns (:46) -- The fling (1:28) -- The scent of love (4:16) -- Deep into the forest (2:58) -- The mood that passes through you (1:13) -- Lost and found (2:24) -- The embrace (2:36) -- Little impulse (2:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records America 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SM NYMSummary: A tale of regret and greed in the Gold Rush-era American West. in 1867, Daniel Dillon, the wealthy 49er who runs Kingdom Come, a Sierra Nevada boomtown, is trying to bring the railroad through town when the past comes back to haunt him. Twenty years ago, he sold his wife and daughter to another goldminer for the claim to the gold mine that brought him his fortune.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: A personal look at the extraordinary life, career, and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, it is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MCQSummary: The story of a handful of U.S. soldiers isolated in the snowy Sierra Nevadas in the mid-1800's. A psychopath, who's tasted human flesh before, tempts them to soothe their hunger pains by feasting on each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RAVSummary: The BAFTA-winning hit series returns, as DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan investigate a cold case with alarming links to the police force. A corpse is discovered in a scrapyard. Four suspects emerge; all have links to the law and attended the same police training course back in 1989. Since then their lives have gone in very different directions. But exactly who is fighting for justice? Can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV UNFTaggart, Andrew
Contents: Setting fires (featuring XYLØ) -- All we know (featuring Phoebe Ryan) -- Closer (featuring Halsey) -- Inside out (featuring Charlee) -- Don't let me down (featuring Daya).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Bmg Music 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHASummary: Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: In England during World War II, an American writer and the bored wife of a British civil servant fall in love. Then she mysteriously ends the affair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to Ingrid Bergman's world, culling from the most personal of archival materials: letters, diary entries, photographs, and Super eight and sixteen mm footage Bergman herself shot, and following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INGKremerata Baltica (Musical group)
Contents: Scene with cranes / Jean Sibelius (6:01) -- Passacaglia / Arvo Pärt (4:07) -- De profundis / Raminta Šerkšynte̓ (12:44) -- Fugue no. 6 : from Six fugues on the name B.A.C.H., op. 60 / Robert Schumann (6:57) -- Trysting fields / Michael Nyman (5:47) -- Minuet no. 3 ; and Trios in D minor, D. 89 / Franz Schubert (5:52) -- Lasset uns den nicht zerteilen / Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, J.S. Bach (1:29)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KRELindgren, Astrid
Summary: Recounts the intrepid strong-girl's experiences as she answers a teacher's questions, refuses to sell her house, and takes her friends Annika and Tommy to visit her island king father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enfant, an imprint of Drawn & Quarterly 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LINSummary: An international concert pianist visits her grown daughter after a seven-year absence. Aching with the memory of the mother's neglect, the introverted daughter explodes into a rage and the reunion turns into a shattering confrontation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1981
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AUTSummary: The life of Dora Carrington, the Victorian Era painter whose passionate life created one of England's greatest scandals. Unable to possess the one man she loves, Lytton Strachey, Carrington embarks on a long string of loveless sexual encounters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001