Summary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ODalton, Annie
Summary: Anna Hopkins' daily walk through Oxford's picturesque Port Meadow is rudely interrupted one autumn morning when her white German Shepherd, Bonnie, unearths a bloodsoaked body in the undergrowth. For Anna it's a double shock: she'd met the victim previously. Naomi Evans was a professional researcher who had told Anna she was working on a book about a famous Welsh poet, and who offered to help...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALCarson, Anne
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.54 CARCarson, Anne
Summary: The love affair, marriage, and disintigrating relationship between two unnamed people is revealed through the voice of a woman in twenty-nine interrelated "tangos" of narrative verse that explore such themes as desire, beauty, love, and betrayal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARCarson, Anne
Summary: A novel in verse on a homosexual romance between two boys. Geryon "understood / that people need / acts of attention from one another, does it really matter which acts? / He was fourteen. / 'Sex is a way of getting to know someone,' / Herakles had said. He was sixteen." There is a strong mixture of whimsy and sadness in Geryon's story. He is tormented as a boy by his brother, escapes to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARCarson, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 CARSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGABurton, Ann.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURBurton, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Glyndwr Resources 1989
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3774 BurtoSummary: Clara Barton wanted to help people from the time she was a child. She turned her compassion for others into several careers, including teaching and nursing. Risking her life to assist soldiers during the Civil War turned her into an American hero. She went on to found the American Red Cross.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BARTON PROBurton, Ann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BURSummary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTHSummary: Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALISummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: "Germany 1958. In those years, "Auschwitz" was a word that some people had never heard of, and others wanted to forget as quickly as possible. Against the will of his immediate superior, young prosecutor Johann Radmann begins to examine the case of recently identified teacher who was a former Auschwitz guard. Radmann soon lands in a web of repression and denial, but also of idealization. He...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LABSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACContents: Contact / Brigitte Bardot -- Tut tut tut tut / Gillian Hills -- Laisse tomber les filles / France Gall -- 7am / Jacqueline Taieb -- I'm gonna haunt you -- Fabienne DelSol / Si tu reviens chez moi / Les 5 gentlemen -- Roller girl / Anna Karina -- Migas 2000 / The Liuminanas -- Dreams / L'Epee -- Les Cornichons / Nina Ferrar -- Harley Davisdon / Brigitte Bardot -- Poupee de cire, poupee de son /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Piars 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POPSummary: Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: Season six introduces several jarring storylines. As "Billith" comes to terms with his newfound powers after emerging from a pool of blood at the end of season five, Louisiana governor Truman Burrell declares open season on vampires, replete with novel anti-vamp weapons and high-tech internment camp. Sookie and Jason steel themselves for an encounter with the killer of their parents; the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUContents: Flowers / (Miley Cyrus) -- Chemical / (Post Malone) -- Happy / (NF) -- Eyes closed / (Ed Sheeran) -- Waffle house / (Jonas Brothers) -- Trustfall / (P!nk) -- Alone / (Kim Petras ; with Nicki Minaj) -- Boy's a liar pt. 2 / (Pink Pantheress & Ice Spice) -- Baby don't hurt me / (David Guetta & Anne-Marie & Coi Leray) -- Heart wants what it wants / (Bebe Rexha) -- Cinderella snapped / (Jax) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An Irish police detective who has lost his daughter in a terrorist attack goes undercover in London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MURSummary: The Maenadian reign of terror may be over, but Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity that makes the bacchanalian evils of Maryanne Forrester seem tame by comparison. Sookie desperately tries to locate her fiancé, ending up in a netherworld of human and undead interlopers, among them the powerful Vampire King of Mississippi, Russell Edgington.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUJohnston, Johanna.
Summary: Presents portraits of fourteen American women who played important roles in American history, including Emma Willard, Abigail Adams, and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2004