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Animals Authors, English 20th century Biography Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character) Drama Baggins, Frodo (Fictitious character) Fiction Colonization Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Drama Middle Earth (Imaginary place) Fiction Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) 1892-1973 Washington (D.C.) FictionSummary: Dead to Me stars Christina Applegate as Jen, a poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn't necessarily want to deal with. Jen has been struggling to keep it together in the months since her husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident. When she joins a grief support group she meets Judy (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit with a shocking secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Best known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood roaming the British countryside with his family and could read and write by age four. He was naturally gifted with languages and used this skill as a signals officers in World War II as well as in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Turtleback Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TOLKIENWood, Ralph C.
Summary: In this accessible and engaging book, Ralph Wood shows us that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece is a deeply Christian work because it does not blink back the horrors of these terrible times but confronts them with startling honesty. Listnerers keep turning to this work because here they are immersed in significance and meaning, perceiving the Hope than can be found amidst despair; the Charity that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: christianaudio.com 2005
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Summary: Frodo, the hobbit, makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG-13Summary: Director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately , himself. As he learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2016
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: A tale of fantasy; being the first part of The lord of the rings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: These modern legends deal with such subjects as the creation of the world.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Tells of the opposing strategies of the wizard Gandalf and the evil Sauron as Frodo and Sam struggle to end the great darkness with the Ring of Power.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1983
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: A chronicle of the great War of the Ring between the hobbits and the Enemy who made the One Ring.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1986
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JFIC TOLTolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel)
Summary: Presents a dramatization of Tolkien's epic story concerning Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit. Baggins lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOLContents: Universal Fanfare (0:33) -- Kennedy Center Performance (2:27) -- Lollipop (2:43) -- Car Show (1:47) -- Winter Wonderland / Here Comes Santa Claus (3:04) -- Riff Off (4:24) -- Jump (1:17) -- Convention Performance (1:41) -- Back To Basics (1:31) -- Cups ("When I'm Gone") (0:46) -- We Belong (3:35) -- Any Way You Want It (World Championship Medley) (1:56) -- World Championship Finale 1 (2:02) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: UMe / Republic 2015
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Kopelman, Jay.
Summary: When Marines enter an abandoned house in Fallujah, Iraq, and hear a suspicious noise, they clench their weapons, edge around the corner, and prepare to open fire. What they find during the U.S.–led attack on the "most dangerous city on Earth" in late 2004, however, is not an insurgent but a puppy left behind when most of the city's residents fled. Despite military law forbidding pets, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2008
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Summary: The first chapter in Peter Jackson's new epic trilogy set in Middle Earth 60 years before J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the rings saga. Follow Bilbo Baggins as he's swept into a quest to reclaim the Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor, long ago conquered by the dragon Smaug. Approached by the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo joins a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield. Along the way...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOB RATED PG-13Summary: In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-Earth still it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell, by chance, into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. On his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOR RATED PG-13Summary: Explores the formative years of the renowned author's life as he finds friendship, courage, and inspiration among a fellow group of writers and artists at school. Their brotherhood strengthens as they grow up and weather love and loss together, including the author's tumultuous courtship of his beloved Edith Bratt, until the outbreak of the First World War which threatens to tear their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOLTeuber, Klaus
Summary: "Your adventurous settlers seek to tame the remote but rich isle of Catan. Start by revealing Catan's many harbors and regions: pastures, fields, mountains, hills, forests, and desert. The random mix creates a different board virtually every game. No two games are the same! Embark on a quest to settle the isle of Catan! Guide your settlers to victory by clever trading and cunning development....
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Mayfair Games, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME CATAN Trade Build SettleSummary: This program will give you a real insight into the man behind the legends of "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" and "The Hobbit" - the people and places that shaped the unique literary genius that is J.R.R. Tolkien.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment LLC. 2004
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Summary: The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOB RATED PG-13Summary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRIRubel, David.
Summary: Presents a timeline of events that occured in America during the 1800s, divided into four categories: politics; life; arts and entertainment; and science and technology.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Reference 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 973.5 RUBSpelman, Lucy H.
Summary: Updated and reviewed by experts in the field for the most accurate, up-to-date information, this reference book features 2,500 species, 1,000 photos, and more than a dozen maps. Includes fun facts such as the world's tallest animal, the longest living animal on Earth, and even the smelliest--it also contains new, "From the Field" reports highlighting National Geographic explorers working around...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2021
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J590.3 SPEReuter Hapgood, Harriet
Summary: Gottie Oppenheimer, a seventeen-year-old physics prodigy, navigates grief, love, and disruptions in the space-time continuum in one very eventful summer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2016