Summary: Featuring a stellar cast, the 13 part mini-series traces the extraordinary life of Charles Dickens from his penniless childhood in Chatham and London during the 1820s to the unprecedented success he later enjoyed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Vision 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DICSummary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland wrote and self-released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid, a sound realized far before its time. Three decades later the musician, now Glenn Copeland, began to receive emails from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KEYSummary: Six classic westerns starring Hollywood cowboy legend Randolph Scott. Desperadoes: when a bank is robbed, the sherrif's best friend who is an ex-outlaw is the prime suspect -- Nevadan: an undercover operation to discover the location of stolen loot is complicated by a greedy rancher and his beautiful daughter -- Santa Fe: an ex-Confederate soldier begins to work for the Yankee-funded Santa Fe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RANSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANCoupland, Douglas
Summary: "Bit Rot, a new collection from Douglas Coupland that explores the different ways 20th-century notions of the future are being shredded, is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 COUCoupland, Douglas.
Summary: "Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCoupland, Douglas.
Contents: The sun is your enemy -- Our parents had more -- Quit recycling the past -- I am not a target market -- Quit your job -- Dead at 30 buried at 70 -- It can't last -- Shopping is not creating -- Re con struct -- Enter hyperspace -- December 31, 1999 -- New Zealand gets nuked, too -- Monsters exist -- Don't eat yourself -- Eat your parents -- Purchased experiences don't count -- Remember earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUDamiana
Contents: Wrap the sky -- Melted reach -- Sunken lupine -- Under an aster.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hausu Mountain 2021
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC DAMRau, Dana Meachen
Summary: Examines the life of the nineteenth-century author famous for the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which denounced slavery and intensified the disagreement between the North and South.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET STOWEDuane, Diane.
Summary: While Nita grieves over her mother's death, Kit tackles a challenge as dangerous as it is strange: Rescue a young wizard who has vanished on his first assignment. This new wizard is unlike any other—he's autistic and he's a magical prodigy. His power is enormous. Now Kit and his dog, Ponch, must track down the missing boy before the Lone Power finds him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003
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Summary: While Nita's sister and her dad host three young alien wizards, teenage wizards Nita and Kit travel halfway across the galaxy as part of an exchange program and find themselves again caught up in the dark doings of their nemesis, the Lone Power.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Summary: Liz Dunn has little to keep her going until a strange young man named Jeremy arrives in her life, upsetting her routine and triggering events that take Liz around the world, into danger, and for the first time, within reach of happiness.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCoupland, Douglas.
Summary: Over the course of several months, two retail workers at an office supply superstore--Roger, a divorced, middle aged "aisles associate" at Staples, and his young co-worker, Bethany, an early twenty-something, former Goth--strike up a unique epistolary friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCoupland, Douglas.
Summary: In 1988, an episode of teenage violence transforms a suburban community, as parents try to cope with the discovery of their children's underground world and the survivors deal with their painful memories of what happened.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCoupland, Douglas.
Summary: On surviving a plane crash, a beauty queen disappears to live a meaningful life and meets a film producer with similar goals. But their romance is threatened by her mother, who wants her back in the limelight. A satire on celebrity status by the author of Generation X.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COUCopland, Aaron
Contents: Concerto for piano and orchestra (16:57) -- Orchestral variations (13:28) -- Short symphony (Symphony no. 2) (15:15) -- Symphonic ode (20:07).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Classics 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL CoplaCourland, Robert
Summary: Concrete: We use it for our buildings, bridges, dams, and roads. We walk on it, drive on it, and many of us live and work within its walls. But very few of us know what it is. We take for granted this ubiquitous substance, which both literally and figuratively comprises much of modern civilization's constructed environment; yet the story of its creation and development features a cast of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620.136 COUStone, Dan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: National Endowment for the Arts 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813 STOCopland, Aaron
Contents: From sorcery to science (9:55) -- The city : (suite) (12:57) -- The Cummington story : (suite) / arr. Sheffer (9:55) -- The north star : (suite) (17:22)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Telarc 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC CoplaCopland, Aaron
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL COPCopland, Aaron
Contents: El Salón México (12:00) -- Billy the Kid: Introduction: The open prairie ; Street in a frontier town ; Mexican dance and finale ; Prairie night (card game at night) ; Gun battle ; Celebration (after Billy's capture) ; Billy's death (the open prairie again) -- Danzón cubano -- Organ symphony.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL COPDuane, Diane.
Summary: When her younger sister uses the family computer with its special wizard software to travel to worlds light years away, Nita uses her wizardry to try to find her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Carpet Books Harcourt, Inc. 2001
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Summary: Young wizards Nita and Kit face their most terrifying challenge yet: Nita's little sister, Dairine. Not only is Dairine far too smart for a ten-year-old, she also has recenlty become a wizard, and worse yet, a wizard with almost limitless power. When Dairine's computerized wizard's manual glibly sends her off on her novice adventure—her Ordeal—Kit and Nita end up chasing her across the galaxy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2003