Summary: Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, it follows three men from outside as they participate in a four-day group therapy retreat with level-four convicts. Over the four days, each man in the room takes his turn at delving deep into his past. The raw and revealing process that the incarcerated men undertake exceeds the expectations of the free men, ripping them out of their comfort zones and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Passion River Films 2018
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Dalhous.
Contents: First Page from Justine -- A Communion with These People -- Function Curve -- Sensitised to This Area -- Lovers of the Highlands -- Four Daughters by Four Women -- Her Mind Was a Blank -- Transference -- To Be Universal You Must Be Specific -- Someone Secure -- Entertain the Idea -- Abyssal Plane -- Thoughts Out of Season -- DSM-III -- Masquerading as Love. A disc of electronica.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackest Ever Black 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DALHarding, Aldous
Summary: Aldous Harding initially ignited interest with her eponymous debut album. With echoes of folk luminary Linda Perhacs, Harding's work is one step removed from the modern world, lying in the more savage and dramatic terrain where Kate Bush and Scott Walker reside, wrought with a wry wit and tenacious gall. Disarming in its desolate imagery and stark instrumentation, her songs draw from the core...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARGethin, Richard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bishopsgate Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.1 GETHuxley, Aldous
Summary: London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning. Fake artists, third-rate poets, pompous critics, pseudo-scientists, con-men, bewildered romantics, cock-eyed futurists - all inhabit this world spinning...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dalkey Archive Press 1997
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Summary: "Explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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Summary: "Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), known today as the architect of John F. Kennedy's presidential legacy, blazed an extraordinary path from Harvard University to wartime London to the West Wing. The son of a pioneering historian--and a two-time Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner in his own right--Schlesinger redefined the art of presidential biography. A Thousand Days, his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. ALDHarding, Aldous
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HARHuxley, Aldous
Summary: Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF HUXAlsous, Zaina
Summary: This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds—particularly extinct species—become...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Arkansas Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ALSSummary: Laura Huxley married Aldous Huxley in 1956. Their home was the center of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of Los Angeles. Huxley on Huxley offers a compelling glimpse of Laura's life with Aldous and the revolutionary and provocative work that had a major influence on American and contemporary cultural history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV HUXSummary: Written in the 1930s, it is still considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. It told of a dystopian future that was equal parts frightening and fascinating. Its author, Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, wrote nearly fifty books, both novels and nonfiction works, as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. This documentary delves deep into Huxley's life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ALDGatlin, Larry.
Contents: Broken lady -- Night time magic -- Sweet Becky Walker -- I just wish you were some I love -- I don't wanna cry -- Statues without hearts --Love is just a game -- Denver -- All the gold in California -- Almost called her baby by mistake -- She used to sing on Sunday -- What are we doin' lonesome -- Sure feels like love -- Houston (means I'm one day closer to you) --Take me to your lovin' place...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GATGitlin, Marty
Summary: "This title tells the story of Major League Baseball, from its beginnings more than a century ago to its status today as the home of America's pastime. Readers will learn about the league's greatest stars, coaches, and dynasties, as well as the most iconic ballparks and sport-rocking scandals. Features include infographics, a glossary, websites, source notes, and an index."--Amazon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.397 GITGetten, Kereen
Summary: Twelve-year-old Clara lives on an island that visitors call exotic. But there's nothing exotic about it to Clara. She loves eating ripe mangos off the ground, running outside in the rain with her Papa during rainy season, and going to her secret hideout with Gaynah--even though lately she's not acting like a best friend. The only thing out of the ordinary for Clara is that something happened to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GETJonaitis, Aldona
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Museum 1991
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 704.0397 JONGettis, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafford 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 GETAlaoui, Amina
Contents: Hado (1:50) -- Búscate en mí (6:31) -- Fado Al-Mu'tamid (5:30) -- Flor de nieve (4:07) -- Oh Andaluces (6:55) -- Ya laylo layl (9:18) -- Fado menor (5:26) -- Búscate en mí, var. (5:32) -- Moradía (3:59) -- Las morillas de Jaén (7:05) -- Que faré (4:26) -- Arco iris (6:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN ALAAndrus, Aubre
Summary: A collection of twelve true animal friendship stories includes the tales of Leroy the Clydesdale and his Chihuahua buddy Berry and orphaned fawn Bambi and his meadow companion Ben the rabbit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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Summary: A feisty little girl learns who the real monsters are in this brilliantly funny medieval adventure. Once, there lived a little girl called Bo. Bo wanted to be just like her brothers and capture a fearsome monster. Bo is small, too small to catch a monster--or so her brothers say. But Bo isn't one to take no for an answer, so she sets off on a quest to catch a monster of her own. Can she defeat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishing Company Inc. 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.8153 FUNGatlin, Larry.
Contents: Talkin' to the moon -- She used to be somebody's baby -- Runaway go home -- Nothing but your love matters -- Alive and well -- Love of a lifetime -- Denver -- Lady takes the cowboy everytime -- Changin' partners -- From time to time (it feels like love again).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY GATGettis, Alan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trafford 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.121 GETWoollvin, Bethan
Summary: "In a fairy tale twist, Hansel and Gretel ransack Willow the good witch's gingerbread cottage and play havoc with her spells, driving the poor witch to her wit's end."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2018