Summary: Documentary film chronicling Richard Stanley's tenure as writer/director of the 1996 adaptation of H.G. Wells' The island of Dr. Moreau as well as the start of the film's production.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOSSummary: A hotheaded Hollywood screenwriter, questioned for murder, is drawn to his neighbor when she confirms his alibi. His volatile nature eventually threatens to destroy their one last chance for real love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Tristar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF IN
Summary: "How Technology Works demystifies the machinery that keeps the modern world going, from simple objects such as zip fasteners and can openers to the latest, most sophisticated devices of the information age, including smartwatches, personal digital assistants, and driverless cars. It includes inventions that have changed the course of history, like the internal combustion engine, as well as...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 620 HOWSummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INGotham
Contents: Sons of Gotham -- Olympic -- The quiet one -- Busta rhymes -- On mamas -- Attention span -- Skyzoo -- In due time -- Nir'e Alldai -- Pick your head up -- John Forte -- Chillin while black -- Diamond D -- I'll tell ya lata -- NIKO IS -- The fold -- Diamond D
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GOTSummary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CANHumphreys, Sara.
Summary: SHE SHOULD BE SEEN, BUT NEVER TOUCHED... Kerry Smithson's modeling career ensures that she will be admired from afar, which is essential since mere human touch sparks blinding pain and terrifying visions. EVERY GOOD MODEL NEEDS A HEAVENLY BODYGUARD... Dante Coltari is hired to protect Kerry from those who know who she is-or more importantly what she is-and want her dead because of it. Nothing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2012
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Humphreys, Tony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crossing Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 HUMSummary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FILHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Poet and novelist Helen Humphreys's And a Dog Called Fig, a meditation on the benefits of dogs to the creative life, including the dogs of well-known writers from history, portraits of all the dogs from the author's life, and the arrival and raising of her new puppy"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, HELEN HUMHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left -- no matter how diminished. Award-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book that takes a deep look at the forgotten world of herbariums and the people...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 580.74 HUMHumphreys, Josephine.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1987
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHumphreys, Debbie
Summary: What are all of the fashionable pups wearing this year? Hand-knit sweaters, of course! Knitting is a trendy hobby, and what's cuter than a dog in a sweater? Cable-knit, ribbed, raglan, chunky, turtleneck--you name it, and Redhound for Dogs has a pattern for it. You'll love the fifteen knitting projectsfourteen sweaters and one blanketranked from "one paw" for a straightforward pattern to "three...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lumina Media 2016
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Summary: A first book by a former Royal Navy nuclear submariner describes the daily experiences of his military life during the Cold War, a service marked by claustrophobia, disorientation, body odors, cramped conditions, and constant fear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHREYS, RICHARD HUMHumphreys, Helen
Summary: The story of James, a pilot struggling to survive in a German POW camp, his young war-bride, Rose, back in England trying to make sense of her life, and his sister, whose own story is also rewritten by the tragedies of WWII.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUMHumphreys, Helen
Summary: "Inspired by the letters and diaries of Henry David Thoreau, this moving novel inhabits his life and mind"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2024
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Summary: A young woman gardner Gwen Davis flees to the Devon countryside where she will be in charge of a Land Army group of young girls who are to plant food crops on a country estate. At the estate along with the girls a regiment of Canadian soldiers live and form friendships, etc. Gwen comes to know herself and others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUMHumphreys, Sara.
Summary: Vampires are nothing but trouble... As far as beautiful vampire Sadie Pemberton is concerned, werewolves shouldn't be sticking their noses into New York's supernatural politics. They don't know jack about running a city-not even that hot-as-sin new vampire-werewolf liaison who's just arrived in town. Werewolves are too sexy for their own good... The last thing Killian Bane wanted was to end up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2015
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Grahame, Kenneth
Summary: The entertaining riverbank exploits of Mole, Water Rat, Badger and the incorrigible Toad. When Mole goes boating with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he discovers a whole new world. In addition to adventures on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high jinks on the open road with that reckless ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad become the firmest of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Grahame 2018Umphrey's McGee
Contents: National loser anthem -- Life during exodus -- Can't rock my dream face -- Sad Clint Eastwood -- Electric avenue to hell (featuring Jennifer Hartswick) -- Ace of long nights -- Sweet sunglasses -- Strangletage -- Come as your kids -- Frankie zombie -- Bulls on the bus -- Bittersweet haj.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Distribution, Inc 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK UMPAbraham
Summary: Presents the channeled spirit communications of "Abraham" on how to achieve balance in life and enjoy the journey with joy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hay House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.93 HicksGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: A boy who has befriended a kindly, peaceful dragon must convince the fearful villagers and St. George the dragon killer that there is no cause for concern while arranging for the fight they long to see.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GRAGrahame, Kenneth
Summary: "Meek little Mole, willful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant Toad. Since their first appearance over a hundred years ago in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly, and friendship. And their misadventures--in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood--continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013