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Beckerman, Nell Cross Bryson, Bill. How to Dress Well How To Dress Well Tell Taylor F RoseSummary: A lonely, isolated thirty-something insomniac young professional seeks an escape from his mundane existence with the help of a devious soap salesman. They find release from their reality prison through underground fight clubs, where men can be what the world now denies them. Their boxing matches and harmless pranks soon lead to an out-of-control spiral towards oblivion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Wake Island: A handful of U.S. Marines holdout against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A superstar singer and her overworked personal assistant are presented with a choice that could alter the course of their respective careers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIGSummary: A musical biography portrayal concerning the life and music of composer, Jerome Kern. Incorporates excerpts from several of his popular musicals including Showboat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TILHow to Dress Well
Contents: Can't you tell -- Salt song -- What's up -- Lost youth/Lost you -- The ruins -- Burning up -- I was terrible -- Anxious -- Time was meant to stay -- Made a life time -- They'll take everything you have.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOWHow To Dress Well
Contents: When I was in trouble -- Cold nites -- Say my name or say whatever -- Running back -- & it was u -- World I need you, won't be without you (poem) -- Struggle -- How many? -- Talking to you -- Set it right -- Ocean floor for everything.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Acephale 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC HOWHow to Dress Well
Contents: 2 years on (Shame dream) -- What you wanted -- Face again -- See you fall -- Repeat pleasure -- Words I don't remember -- Pour Cyril -- Precious love -- Childhood faith in love (Everything must change, everything must stay the same) -- A power -- Very best friend -- House inside (Future is older than the past).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOWBeckerman, Nell Cross
Summary: "Sunrises and lightning storms, rainbows and volcanoes, meteors and fireflies-these beautiful, and sometimes frightening, events that light up the sky might seem like magic. But there is a scientific explanation for each natural phenomenon. Find out the science behind the magic in this beautiful and enlightening nonfiction picture book"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books 2022
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Contents: Humans disguised as animals / Nonkilling 1 -- Body fat -- False skull 7 -- Nonkilling 3 / The anteroom / False skull 1 -- Vacant boat -- Nonkilling 13 / Ceiling for the sky -- A memory, the spinning of a body / Nonkilling 2 -- Nonkilling 6 / Hunger -- July 13 no hope no pain -- Love means taking action -- Brutal (featuring Ocean-Vuong) / False skull 5 -- False skull 12 -- Nothing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOWTell Taylor F Rose
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Tell Taylor 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson, author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, takes readers on a tour of his house, a rural English parsonage, showing how each room has figured in the evolution of private life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 643.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: The author describes his return to America after two decades of living abroad and his disconcerting reunion with his homeland as he discusses motels, tax-return instructions, and hardware stores.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson recounts some of the strange experiences he had when he returned to the United States after living in Britain for twenty years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD 921 BrysonBryson, Bill.
Summary: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 Shakespeare 2007Bryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson shares his breath-taking adventures and the fascinating history of the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, as he travels slowly on foot.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 917.404 BryBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bryson share his experiences hiking the Appalachian Trail with a childhood friend. The two encounter eccentric characters, a blizzard, getting lost, and rude yuppies along the way.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishing Group 2010
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Bryson, Bill.
Summary: From one of the most beloved authors of our time--more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone--a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up." Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010
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Bryson, Bill.
Summary: "...A personal collection, built up over thirty years as a writer and editor in two countries" and "intended as a quick, concise guide to the problems of English spelling and usage." First published in the 1980s, Bryson's compilation has been updated and re-released, and includes definitions, guides to punctuation and grammar, and helpful conversion tables (Celsius to Fahrenheit; kilometers to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 423.1 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Moines, Iowa--in the middle of the largest generation in American history--the baby boomers. As one of the funniest writers alive, he is perfectly positioned to mine his all-American childhood for memoir gold. Like millions of his generational peers, Bill Bryson grew up with a rich fantasy...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 BRYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 910.4092 BRYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRYSON, BILL BryBryson, Bill.
Summary: Bill Bryon backpacks across Europe, retracing the same steps he took 30 years earlier.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 914 BRYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 BRYBryson, Bill.
Summary: "Before he returns to the United States after nearly two decades on British soil, Bryson decides to take a farewell jaunt through his adopted homeland. But his plans to neatly traverse the island by foot, bus, and train are soon thwarted. On weekends, odd train and bus schedules leave him stranded in isolated communities with damp, moldering inns. And as a destination beckons above the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015