Foreman, Amanda
Summary: In the Civil War, both the North and the South demanded Britain's support. A World on Fire portrays the complex web of relationships between the two countries through the lives of a selected group of participants who shared one thing in common. They all wrote about their experiences in diaries and letters that survive to this day.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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Summary: Traces the life of eighteenth-century British aristocrat Lady Georgiana Spencer.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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Summary: Presents a history of the role of British citizens in the American Civil War that offers insight into the interdependencies of both nations and how the Union worked to block diplomatic relations between England and the Confederacy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Publishing Group 2011
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Summary: Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Duchess 2008Summary: As Felicity bounces back from her beginning-of-the-year breakup with high school love Ben, she adopts a new hairdo, and a new perspective on life. Changing her major from premed to art, Felicity steps out to find herself and kindle new relationships. From mudslinging campus politics to Ben's end-of-the-season profession of true love, Felicity Season Two is a whirlwind of passion, heartache and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FELSummary: What began four years ago as a bold journey of self-discovery culminates in Felicity's stunning senior year. Bad judgment, impulsiveness, the flotsam of unresolved relationships, envy, and selfishness are still driving forces behind the mercurial actions of Felicity and her off-and-on boyfriend Ben, former beau Noel, cynical pal Meghan, the latter's well-meaning hustler of a partner, Sean, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ABC Studios 2008
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV FELGorman, Amanda
Summary: "On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb," is now available to cherish in this special edition."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 GORGorman, Amanda
Summary: Gorman explores history, language, identity, and erasure through an imaginative and intimate collage. Harnessing the collective grief of a global pandemic, her poems shine a light on a moment of reckoning and reveal that Gorman has become a messenger from the past, our voice for the future. The final poem in the book is The hill we climb, which was read at President Joseph Biden's 2021...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021