Purdum, Todd S.
Summary: "Even before they joined forces, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had written dozens of Broadway shows, but together they pioneered a new art form: the serious musical play. Their songs and dance numbers served to advance the drama and reveal character, a sharp break from the past and the template on which all future musicals would be built. [This is a portrait of that creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 PURSummary: "In this deeply personal tale of estrangement and reconciliation between two rebellious brothers, set in a dreamlike and timeless Tulsa, Francis Ford Coppola gives mythic dimensions to intimate, painful emotions. The director's "art film for teenagers" was his second adaptation of young-adult novelist S. E. Hinton's work in a single year, after the more classically styled The Outsiders. Graced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: BANPP 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8652 PURPurdy, Susan Gold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.8653 PURSummary: For many years there has raged a heated debate between evolution and creation, with the question at the core of it all being, "Was the earth created, or did it come into existence on its own without any outside interference?" In Origins of the Universe, we meet seven experts in their fields who have devoted their lives to the study of this question, hoping to find some kind of solid answer....
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Publisher / Publication Date: DBM Films 2012
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Todd, Frank S.
Summary: Full-color images and informative text combine to identify waterfowl found throughout the world. This field guide depicts virtually all duck, goose, and swan species and races.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ibis Publishing Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 598.2 TODKidd, Thomas S.
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson was arguably the most brilliant and inspiring political writer in American history. But the ethical realities of his personal life and political career did not live up to his soaring rhetoric. Indeed, three tensions defined Jefferson's moral life: democracy versus slavery, republican virtue versus dissolute consumption, and veneration for Jesus versus skepticism about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS KIDDodd, Don.
Contents: [v. 1] Historical statistics of the South, 1790-1970.--v. 2. The Midwest
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Alabama Press 1973
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 317.3 DODSummary: At the height of the cold war, the world holds its breath when a Soviet submarine armed with nuclear missiles goes missing in the Pacific. On board the vessel, the battle-tested captain and a rogue KGB agent are waging a life-and-death game of cat and mouse. With enemy forces closing in and time running out, the captain fights to keep control with nuclear armageddon hanging in the balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PHABoyd, S. E.
Summary: "While filming on location in Belfast, Northern Ireland, John Doe, the universally adored host of the culinary travel show Last Call, is found dead in a hotel room in an apparent suicide. As the news of his untimely demise breaks, a group of friends, fixers, hustlers, and opportunists vie to seize control of the narrative: Doe's chess-master of an agent Nia, ready to call in every favor she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYSummary: Dancing great Bill Williamson takes a look back on the beginnings of his career and his romance with fellow rising star Selina. Their romance is brief because Selina does not want to settle down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: A story of the young Americans who volunteered to be part of the French military prior to the United States involvement in WWI, also known as Lafayette Escadrille, and how they became the country's first fighter pilots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flyboys 2007Lord, Giselle Kennedy
Summary: "The Ark of Taste is a living catalog of our nation's food heritage preserving treasures passed down for generations-some rare, some endangered, all delicious. Created by Slow Food USA, the Ark shines light on history, identity, and taste through these unique food products, featuring recipes and the stories of how they reach our tables. In these pages you'll learn about: Carolina Gold rice,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LORBoyd, Alan S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lowell House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.5 BOYContents: Introduction -- Season in New York -- Season in Chicago -- Little theater tournament -- Show-off / by George Kelly -- Hell-bent fer heaven / by Hatcher Hughes -- Swan / by Ferencz Molnar ; tr. by M.P. Baker -- Outward bound / by Sutton Vane -- Goose hangs high / by Lewis Beach -- Beggar on horseback / by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly -- Changelings / by Lee Wilson Dodd -- Sun-up / by Lula...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small, Maynard & Co. 1924
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESStirling, S. M.
Summary: Princess Orlaith wields the Sword of the Lady and faces a new enemy. Fortunately, she also has a new ally in Reiko, Empress of Japan. Orlaith and Reiko embark on a quest to find the fabled Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi and their enemy will stop at nothing to prevent them from succeeding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STIStirling, S. M.
Summary: The second novel in an alternate history series where Teddy Roosevelt is president once more right before WWI breaks out, and on his side is the Black Chamber, a secret spy network watching America's back. After foiling a German plot to devastate America's coastal cities from Boston to Galveston, crack Black Chamber agent Luz O'Malley and budding technical genius Ciara Whelan go to California...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STISummary: 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...
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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: This documentary takes the viewer through the treacherous, yet ultimately victorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of the breakthrough cancer treatment using antineoplastons. Upon approval, antineoplastons will mark the first time that a single scientist- not a pharmaceutical company- will hold the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Merola 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURSummary: "Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents--mostly elderly and black--died over the course of one week. As Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism, it delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness. Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COOSummary: An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment Inc. 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quiet 2002Summary: Wayne plays ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards, an Indian-hater who believes more in bullets than words. He's out to find his young niece, who's been taken captive by the renegade Comanches who massacred her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997