Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISchubert, Franz
Contents: An die Entfernte, D. 765 / Goethe (3:14) -- Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774 / Stolberg (3:24) -- Der Schiffer, D. 536 / Mayrhofer (1:49) -- Der Wanderer, D. 649 / von Schlegel (3:46) -- Nachtgesang, D. 314 / Kosegarten (3:56) -- Das Zügenglöcklein, D. 871 / Seidl (3:54) -- Der Jüngling und der Tod, D. 545 / von Spaun (4:08) -- Das Heimweh, D. 456 / Hell (1:23) -- Das Lied im Grünen, D. 917 /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SchubPowell, Padgett.
Summary: About the coming of age on an undevelped strip of coast between Savannah and Charleston.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1984
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWFran
Contents: Limousine -- Palm trees -- How did we -- How did I -- Leaving -- Everybody -- Winter -- So long -- God -- The label -- I know you.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL POP/ROCK FRAPowell, Padgett.
Summary: A wildly inventive jazz meditation on life and language is written using only questions for the sentences, in a book that shows the writer's fascination with the snap and swing of American talk.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWPallett, Owen
Contents: I am not afraid (4:16) -- In conflict (4:14) -- On a path (4:33) -- Song for five and six -- The secret seven (5:16) -- Chorale (3:54) -- The passions (3:54) -- The sky behind the flog (4:23) -- [right pointing arrow symbol] (:46) -- The riverbed (3:44) -- Infernal fantasy (3:23) -- Soldiers rock (4:56) -- [right pointing arrow symbol] (1:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PALSchubert, Franz
Contents: Ave Maria (Ellens Gesang III) (6:18) -- Ganymed (4:16) -- Mignon-Lieder. Kennst du das Land (4:25) ; Heiss mich nicht reden (3:54) ; So lasst mich scheinen (3:25) ; Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt (3:23) -- Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (1:58) -- Heidenrs̲lein (1:51) -- Nh̃e des Geliebten (3:40) -- Die Forelle (2:17) -- Auf dem Wasser zu singen (3:39) -- Im Abendrot (4:01) -- Horch, horch die Lerch...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teldec 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL SCHTran, Thi Minh Phuoc
Summary: Collects fifteen Vietnamese folktales, including "Mai An Tiem and the watermelon seeds," which tells the story about orphan Mai An Tiem who is banished to a remote island by the king despite his loyalty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Publishing 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 TRAPadgett, Jason
Summary: No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 PADGETT, JASON PADPadgett, Jason.
Summary: "No one sees the world as Jason Padgett does. Water pours from the faucet in crystalline patterns, numbers call to mind distinct geometric shapes, and intricate fractal patterns emerge from the movement of tree branches, revealing the intrinsic mathematical designs hidden in the objects around us. Yet Padgett wasn't born this way. Twelve years ago, he had never made it past pre-algebra. But a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PADGETT, JASON PADPowell, Padgett.
Summary: The cult hit The Interrogative Mood--a Best Book of the Year selection by Amazon.com, GQ, The Believer, Time Out New York, and elsewhere--reminded readers that Padgett Powell is one of the enduring stars of American fiction, an electric novelist with a pitch-perfect ear for the way Americans talk and the strange things we say and believe. Now he returns with a hilarious Southern send-up of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Summary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRISummary: Lavish Biblical epic that tells the life story of Moses, who turned his back on a privileged life to lead his people to freedom outside Egypt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TENEdan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Five Day Weekend 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP EDAFra Fra (Musical group)
Contents: Destiny (orphans) -- You can't escape death -- Naked (you enter & leave this world with nothing) -- Helpless (death has taken everyone) -- Good bye -- I will follow you for life, everywhere -- We must grieve together
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Glitter beat 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN FRAForan, Eileen.
Summary: Text and photographs introduce that valiant bird of prey, the bald eagle.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 1992
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 598.969 FORFrai, Maksim
Summary: Follows the adventures of a vice-driven loafer who becomes a celebrity in a magical parallel universe for his membership in an enchanted secret agent organization and his talent for solving extravagant and imaginative cases.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFram, John
Summary: Reluctantly returning to his small hometown when his star football player brother goes missing, Joel Whitley reconnects with the local sheriff, who begins to suspect former classmates in her search for her own missing brother.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAFrayn, Michael.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAGran, Julia.
Summary: Prunella knows so much about insects that people get bored listening to her talk, but when her classroom fills up with bees during show-and-tell, Prunella saves the day. Includes facts about insects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC GRALanting, Frans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taschen 1997
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.32 LANFraĭ, Maksim
Summary: Now living in Echo, Max Frei joins the night shift secret police and tackles surreal criminal cases involving undead outlaws, alien representatives from another continent, and zombies in the cemetery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREFrayn, Michael.
Summary: When a long-forgotten scent forces Stephen Wheatley to confront his past, he starts to remember a troubling childhood summer in wartime London where an imaginative child's game of playing spies wreaked havoc upon innocent lives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRALessac, Frané.
Summary: A young boy goes with his best friend to visit the little Caribbean island where he was born.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lippincott 1984