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Action and adventure films African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans in motion pictures Belfast (Northern Ireland) History Bombardment, 1941 Fiction Elephants Fiction Estate planning Historical fiction Bibliography Human-animal relationships Fiction Retirement income Planning Zoo keepers FictionSummary: When a dangerous and powerful magic ring falls into his hands, a hobbit named Frodo gets caught up in an adventure. The mighty wizard Gandalf and a daring band of elves, dwarfs and warriors defend their enchanted land from the wicked sorcerer who would see it destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family LordVaughan Williams, Ralph
Contents: Suite for viola and orchestra. Prelude ; Carol ; Christmas dance ; Ballad ; Moto perpetuo ; Musette ; Polka ; Galop.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chandos 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VAUHulse, S. M.
Summary: A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Hulse 2015Walch, Karen S.
Summary: If your life goals require sharing creating or decision making with another person you need to increase your power as a negotiator. These actions require give and take the jockeying of power and influence. Most business people spend the majority of their time allocating resourcesboth human and financial. When you find this equilibrium you achieve clair-buoyanceTM. When operating from the place...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Acanthus Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.5 WALSummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Summary: "From an act of political violence that tears apart a family's faith and community, S. M. Hulse crafts a compelling novel that mines the deep rifts that come when the reach of the government clashes with individual freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HULSummary: "Experience fifteen years in the life of seminal British artist Ralph Steadman, whose surreal, often confrontational artwork is frequently associated with Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL HOLVaughan Williams, Ralph
Contents: Toccata marziale (4:32) ; Variations for wind band (14:00) / Vaughan Williams -- Konzertmusik : für Blasorchester, op. 41 / Hindemith (14:00) -- Quiet city / Copland (with Wynton Marsalis, trumpet ; Phillip Koch, English horn) (10:52) -- Music for Prague 1968 / Husa (24:00).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Records Masterworks 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL EASJust, Ward S.
Summary: While on duty as a young foreign service officer in Indochina in the 1960s, Harry Sanders briefly meets a young German woman who changes the course of his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUSJust, Ward S.
Summary: "From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JUSBurt, Alfred S.
Contents: Ah, bleak and chill the wintry wind -- All on a Christmas morning (Oh, who are these that throng the way) -- Carol of the mother (Sleep, baby mine) -- Caroling, caroling -- Christ in the stranger's guise -- Christmas cometh caroling -- Come, dear children -- Jesu parvule (Poor little Jesus) -- Nigh Bethlehem (Nigh Beth'lem on a wintry night) -- O hearken ye -- Some children see Him -- The star...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollis Music 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.28 BURSummary: Kwai Chang Caine is a Shoalin Monk who is on the run after he killed the Chinese Emporer's nephew. The nephew had killed Caine's teacher in cold blood with a gun like a coward. Caine flees to America both to escape retaliation and to search for his brother in order to settle down in this new land. However, he can not help but to continually run into trouble from gun fighters and others as they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KUNJacob, Levi S.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Silverdale 2000
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 296 judSummary: "Achieve greater peace of mind with an approachable, step-by-step guide to financial, legal and estate planning."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterwards, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICBurt, Daniel S.
Summary: "The standard guides to historical fiction of all times and places are very out-of-date. Ernest Baker's Guide to Historical Fiction was published in 1914 and the tenth edition of Leonard B. Irwin's Guide to Historical Fiction, the most recent comprehensive guide, was published in 1971 (and is currently out of print). Consequently, this new set, an annotated bibliography of some 7000 historical...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 1997
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1 available in Reference Desk, Call number: RDK 808.63 BURWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "The Elephant of Belfast chronicles a seven-month period of time when the Germans unexpectedly bombed Belfast, Northern Ireland, also known as the Belfast Blitz. Through the lens of the Bellevue Zoo and one of its zookeepers, twenty-year-old Hettie Quin, the novel animates how the war irrevocably impacted-and shaped the lives of Belfast's citizens in broad and intimate ways. In October 1940,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALWalsh, S. Kirk
Summary: "Belfast, October 1940. Twenty-year-old zookeeper Hettie Quin arrives at the city docks in time to meet her new charge: an orphaned three-year-old Indian elephant named Violet. As Violet adjusts to her new solitary life in captivity and Hettie mourns the recent loss of her sister and the abandonment of her father, new storm clouds gather. A world war rages, threatening a city already reeling...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction WalshSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: Beautifully filmed in and around Oxford this engaging biopic follows the creator of The Chronicles of Narnia from the tragic death of his mother when he was just nine years old, through his strained relationship with his father, to the nightmare of the trenches of World War I to Oxford University, where friends like J.R.R. Tolkien challenged his unbelief.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022