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Executions and executioners Executions and executioners Drama Executions and executioners Fiction Fathers and daughters Fiction France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Fiction Hypochondria United States Drama London (England) History 18th century Fiction Lookalikes Fiction Married people United States Drama United StatesSummary: Arrested for fatally beating an elderly widow, Barbara Graham at first goads the police, refusing to answer their questions. But when an alleged accomplice turns state's evidence, Graham insists that she is innocent. Condemned by the press and the public, Graham is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die in the gas chamber. With her execution date getting near, Graham desperately attempts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ISummary: "An elaborate adaptation of Dickens' classic tale of the French Revolution. Dissipated lawyer Sydney Carton defends emigre Charles Darnay from charges of spying against England. He becomes enamored of Darnay's fiancée, Lucie Manette, and agrees to help her save Darnay from the guillotine when he is captured by Revolutionaries in Paris"--Marg Baskin in the IMDB, viewed Dec. 12, 2006.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TALSummary: Provocative and chilling true story of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., the son of a prison worker and a self-taught execution expert who consulted with prisons across the country to make capital punishment more humane. When Leuchter is called in as a high-profile expert in a sensationalistic Canadian trial, his ego, bravado and absurd testimony reaches nation media prominence. Ironically, what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fourth Floor Productions 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MRBerg, Scott W.
Summary: Placing a seminal moment in American history in the larger context of the Civil War, this account revisits the little-known Dakota War of 1862, an uprising on the Minnesota frontier which resulted in the forced relocation of the Dakota and the hanging ofthirty-eight Dakota warriors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 BERSummary: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NEFSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Kaliyappan struggles with the guilt and implications of the executions he obediently carries out. His son rejects his father's way of life. After Kaliyappan is told to prepare for another hanging, a traveler's story changes their destiny.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SHASummary: Albert Pierrepoint joins the family business and becomes the most feared and respected executioner in Britain. Living a split life as a master hangman, loyal husband and grocery delivery man, Albert became the most feared executioner in Britain, famed for his craftsmanship in hanging over 450 people. Once praised and demonized for his role in the Nazi war trials, he must ultimately face a fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY PIE1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PIE
Garrett, LaMonica
Summary: A prison warden sees a series of executions put a strain on her marriage, career, and convictions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD CLECopies Available at Fife Lake
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLEGlyndebourne Chorus
Summary: Opera revolving around the fatal tensions that develop between a young sailor, the malevolent master-at-arms, and the captain aboard a British man o' war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BILRaybourn, Deanna
Summary: London, 1887. Victorian adventuress and butterfly hunter Veronica Speedwell receives an invitation to visit the Curiosity Club, a ladies-only establishment for daring and intrepid women. There she meets the mysterious Lady Sundridge, who begs her to take on an impossible task saving society art patron Miles Ramsforth from execution. Accused of the brutal murder of his artist mistress Artemisia,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RAYMunro, Margaret A.
Summary: "A plain-English guide to managing an estate."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: For Dummies, a Wiley Brand 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 346.05 MUNSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1981
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: Hangman Oscar Stone is a master executioner, who prides himself on his careful and exacting work, until a sudden moment of realization and devastating truth forces him to come to terms with himself and his profession.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Western, Call number: Western Estleman 2001Levy, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1973
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A satirical comedy in which a British documentary crew follows a radical folksinger (and self-made millionaire) turned senatorial candidate as he blends singing, music videos and scandal on the campaign trail.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOBDickens, Charles
Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICDickens, Charles
Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 130 FIC DICKevorkian, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 KEVMelville, Herman
Summary: Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, is admired by all except for the jealous master-at-arms who plots to frame the young man for treason with tragic results.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MELSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Dan and Charlie are two best friends who, together, have built a successful marketing empire, but have somehow managed to avoid ever really grown up. Their lives have been turned upside down when they are charged with the care of seven-year-old twins while on the verge of a big business deal. The clueless bachelors stumble in their efforts, leading to one debacle after another, with a gorilla...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Evangelista, Patricia
Summary: "'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023