Summary: In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "In the spring of 1789, a ship left port in London bound for the Botany Bay penal colony in Australia. The ship carried precious cargo - women, sent to keep the desperate male colonists from engaging in what their governor called 'gross irregularities.' But these women were hardly quiet homemakers - they were a hardy raucous lot rounded up from London's notorious Newgate prison and other jails...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV VOYSummary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRIGrandreams Limited.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grandreams 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Holidays, Call number: JE FIC GrandGrandreams Limited.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grandreams Limited 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GrandDonizetti, Gaetano
Summary: "In a feud between the Scottish families of Ravenswood and Lammermoor, Enrico has gained the upper hand over Edgardo, murdering his kinsmen and usurping his estates. By the time of the opera's action, in the late 17th century, Enrico's fortunes have begun to wane; in political disfavor, he stakes all on uniting his family with that of Arturo, whom he means to force his sister, Lucia, to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2006
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA LUCSummary: The parody of British Victorian life, spiced with the usual topical allusions to English customs and institutions, set in a Japanese Never-Never Land, is performed by The Australian Opera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Australian Opera 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKGrandreams Limited.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clark Fulfillment Systems 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GrandPond (Musical group : Australia)
Contents: Carved -- Circle round a tree -- The river -- Pass us by -- The art of doing nothing -- Memory let down -- Bebop -- Hard shoulder -- End of the pier -- Evening star -- Aim.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One Little Indian Records 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PONSummary: It's 1999, and freshly minted detective Jay Swan arrives in a dusty Outback town. Although he's the new copper on the beat, he grew up nearby, and his estranged family still lives here as does the woman who will change his life forever, Mary. Before Jay can even report for duty, he finds himself in the middle of an armed holdup, one of a series being perpetrated by a masked gang. The heists...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSSummary: HMS Pinafore: Ralph Rackstraw, a humble sailor, is smitten with the captain's daughter, Josephine, a woman far above his social rank. When Josephine declares her love for Ralph, the couple decide to elope. Their plans are thwarted, but the lovers are reunited when Ralph's true social position is revealed. Trial by jury: Jurors and reporters gather in a courtroom for a much-publicized case...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA GILSummary: A true story of humanity and heroism, this film vividly recounts the 2008 siege of the famed Taj Hotel by a group of terrorists in Mumbai, India. Among the dedicated hotel staff is the renowned chef Hemant Oberoi and a waiter who choose to risk their lives to protect their guests. As the world watches on, a desperate couple is forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to protect their newborn child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AFT(MAPPING UNLIMITED)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1989
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: MIR 623.892 NAV1 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: R OVS NEL 623.892 ANT
Mapping Unlimited
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mapping Unlimited 1973
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: MIR 623.892 NAV2 available in Nelson Room Oversize, Call number: NELO 623.892 NAV
Australian Bird Calls
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INFORMATION SON(MAPPING UNLIMITED)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1992
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1 available in Reference, Call number: MIR 623.892 NAVMorewell Unlimited
Contents: Disc 1: A.1 Dub-Morwell Unlimited. Different style -- West side ranking -- Waterpump skank -- Pressure rock -- Blackboard jungle -- Depth charge -- Down town rebel -- Well crucial -- Survival dub -- 7 Drunken masters -- Disc 1: Cry Tuff Dub Encounter Chapter IV- Prince Far I & the Arabs. Foundation stepper -- Deadly command -- Time stone turning -- Sound gesture -- Earth stone shake down --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE MORApa Publications Limited (COR)
Summary: Compact, clear, and packed with key words and phrases to help conversation, this pocket-sized Mandarin phrasebook and dictionary from Rough Guides' trusted language experts (with free app) is a trusty travel companion, and all you need to make yourself understood - and to understand others - when you're out and about in China and other Mandarin-speaking countries. With its emphasis on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rough Guides, APA Publications, (UK) Ltd. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.1 MANGuinness World Records Limited
Summary: "The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels. Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page. Guinness World...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guinness World Records Limited 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Dorling Kindersley Limited (COR)
Summary: How the Universe works - and how we explore it - explained in simple words and clever graphics. The clearest, most visual guide to space and the Universe for complete beginners to astronomy. Have you ever asked yourself how big the Universe is, how far it is to the nearest star, or what came before the Big Bang? Then this is the book for you. How Space Works shows you the different types of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Guinness World Records Limited
Summary: "The world's most popular record book is back with thousands of new categories and newly broken records, covering everything from outer space to sporting greats via Instagram, fidget spinners and all manner of human marvels. Inside you'll find hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and countless facts, figures, stats and trivia waiting for you on every action-packed page. Guinness World...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Guinness World Records Limited 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 031.02 GUI1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 031.02 GUI
Summary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003