Summary: Francie lives with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother. The pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When his mother commits suicide and his friend, Joe, goes off to boarding school, Francie sinks ever deeper into paranoia thanks mainly to his nasty neighbour Mrs. Nugent. He begins to have a fantasy where he has visions of the Virgin Mary. After his father...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUTSummary: Post-WWII, Germany. Michael Berg is a teenager who becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REAMorris, Desmond.
Summary: "Renowned animal behaviorist Desmond Morris has created an impressive guide to the history and variety of man's best friend. The entries are accompanied by over 500 line drawings, which express the character of the dogs represented in a way that photographs often fail to capture. Divided into four major categories -- Sporting Dogs, Livestock Dogs, Service Dogs, and Other Dogs -- each division...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Publishing 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.71 MORMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORMorris, Desmond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1967
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 MORMorris, Desmond
Summary: Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists, Desmond Morris concentrates on the artists as people?as remarkable individuals. What were their personalities, their predilections, their character strengths and flaws?Unlike the Impressionists...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thames Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 MORMorris, Desmond.
Summary: The zoologist discusses almost everything readers want to know about cats, including why cats purr and the origin of the expression "it's raining cats and dogs"
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Trade Paperbacks 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.8 MORMorris, Desmond.
Summary: "Why dogs bark and everything else you ever wanted to know"--Jacket subtitle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.7 MORMorris, Desmond.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent 1994