Summary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Bachman, Daniel
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACKumar, Amitava
Summary: "Every day I write the book, a guide to style and writing for academics, is Amitava Kumar's fifth book of creative nonfiction with Duke University Press. Written in short first-person vignettes, this book melds form and content to explore the writing process both in and out of the academy, while offering a portrait of Kumar's writing life throughout. Kumar, whose background is in literary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.06 KUMBachman, Richard.
Summary: When overweight Billy Halleck accidentally hits a gypsy woman as she is crossing the street, he senses a curse upon him. He begins to lose weight with horrifying results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 1984
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Summary: "Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Bachman, Daniel.
Contents: Invocation -- Sycamore city -- Car -- Song for the setting sun III -- Song for the setting sun IV -- Scrumpy -- New moon.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Three Lobed recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACBachman, Daniel.
Contents: Brightleaf blues -- The flower tree -- Wine and peanuts -- A dog named Pepper -- Brightleaf blues -- Watermelon slices on a blue bordered plate -- Farther along.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BACBachman, Richard.
Summary: In a mining town in Ohio, a boy is invaded by an evil spirit living in a nearby silver mine. The spirit organizes a bloody massacre of the boy's neighborhood by characters from B-movies and Saturday morning TV cartoons which the boy regularly watches.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BACBachman, Richard.
Summary: Clayton Blaisdell, Jr., nicknamed Blaze, is a mentally retarded giant of a man living in a decrepit old house. Blaze's best--and only--friend's name is George, and George is a bad influence. It is George who goads Blaze into kidnapping the baby and holding it for a million dollar ransom. As a pitch-black sequence of events unfolds, the true sickness of Blaze's condition comes into focus through...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BACGhosh, Amitav
Summary: "The stunningly vibrant final novel in the bestselling Ibis Trilogy It is 1839 and China has embargoed the trade of opium, yet too much is at stake in the lucrative business and the British Foreign Secretary has ordered the colonial government in India to assemble an expeditionary force for an attack to reinstate the trade. Among those consigned is Kesri Singh, a soldier in the army of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GHOGhosh, Amitav.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1995
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Summary: From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage. This is the story of a world on the brink, of increasing displacement and unstoppable transition. But it is also a story of hope, of a man whose faith in the world and the future is restored by two remarkable women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2019
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Summary: When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: "The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis frames climate change and the Anthropocene as the culmination of a history that begins with the discovery of the New World and of the sea route to the Indian Ocean. Ghosh makes the case that the political dynamics of climate change today are rooted in the centuries-old geopolitical order that was constructed by Western colonialism. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.738 GHOGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1974, Bachman-Turner Overdrive was one of the biggest bands in the world with classics like Takin Care of Business and You Aint Seen Nothing Yet. This is the story of its founder Randy Bachman, from his early days with The Guess Who with hits like American Woman to today. As one of the few legendary musical artists to reach #1 in two separate bands, Randy Bachmans singularly focused goal of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BACSafi, Aminah Mae
Summary: Rinn Olivera is finally going to tell her longtime crush AJ that she is in love with him. Daniella Korres writes poetry for her own account, but nobody knows it is her. Imogen Azar is just trying to make it through the day. When they clock into work at Wild Nights Bookstore on the first day of summer, they are expecting the hours to drift by the way they always do. Instead, they have to deal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAFSummary: In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Last 2007Safi, Aminah Mae
Summary: "Aminah Mae Safi's Tell Me How You Really Feel is an ode to romantic comedies, following two girls on opposite sides of the social scale as they work together to make a movie and try very hard not to fall in love. The first time Sana Khan asked out a girl -- Rachel Recht -- it went so badly that she never did it again. Rachel is a film buff and aspiring director, and she's seen Carrie enough...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel & Friends 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAFSummary: A feisty, Bangladeshi teen-aged painter sets out on a quest to save her ailing father. Her artistic gift has blossomed with his encouragement but hasn't yet proven financially rewarding. Naima's mother dashes such childish dreams, which sends the frustrated teen off to the big city, determined to earn money for the family's survival. And she does, by disguising herself as a boy to get a job as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICBACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1974