Williams, Tennessee
Summary: While visiting, Blanche DuBois, a beautiful alcoholic who embodies the virtues of the Old South, clashes with her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski, a rising industrialist. As Blanche reveals the true nature of her visit to Stanley's residence, both Blanche and Stanley must face the saddening state of Southern values.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WILSummary: 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: "In Japanese, tora means "tiger." In December of 1941, "tiger, tiger, tiger" was the code phrase that unleashed one of history's most devastating surprise attacks. But the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor also awakened the "sleeping giant" of American military might, and in the process, sealed Japan's fate"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV PEASummary: "Vincent Price stars as an obsessed doctor who discovers that fear manifests itself as a parasitic creature, which grows on the spinal cords of terrified people. If they scream, The Tingler can be destroyed. If they don't, it will sever the spinal column and kill them. He successfully isolates and removes The Tingler from a deaf-mute (Judith Evelyn) who has been scared to death by her devious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TINSummary: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBSummary: Two disc set contains the film version of actor Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man stage show, with recollections on his childhood in the Bronx and Connecticut, studying in New York, making it to Broadway, and finally going to Hollywood. The second disc has a 2001 performance of "Save it for the stage," a longer production on which the film is based.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Civilian Pictures 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFHastings, Chester
Summary: Offers ninety seasonal recipes that combine cheese with the ripest fruits and vegetables, including a springtime raw baby artichoke salad with Pecorino Toscano and savory pumpkin tarts with Bûcheron for autumn.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books Llc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.673 HASSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMEChester, John
Summary: Follows the filmmaker and his wife as they try to create a sustainable farm in Ventura County, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIGFox, Hester
Summary: "In post World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets . . . With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which she's descended. With nothing to keep her in London since...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOXFox, Hester
Summary: Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor. But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXYoung, Hester.
Summary: "From a unique new talent comes a fast-paced debut, introducing a heroine whose dark visions bring to light secrets that will heal or destroy those around her. When New York journalist and recently bereaved mother Charlotte "Charlie" Cates begins to experience vivid dreams about children--visions of injured children, dead children--she's sure that she's lost her mind. Yet these are not the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUSummary: As the third season begins, Mulder is missing and assumed dead...although Scully experiences a vision in which he is still alive. Yet even as the partners are reunited, each must deal with an additional personal loss, tragedies that ultimately serve to strengthen their connection to each other. And they soon find themselves depending on that strength as familiar foes resurface and preconceived...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: London gardener Amy Wilde falls for a stranger she meets at a friend's party and is astonished to learn he is a prince, a situation that leads to a scandalous engagement and Amy's doubts about whether she will enjoy life as a royal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFox, Hester
Summary: In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction FoxFox, Hester
Summary: "In the wake of a scandal, the Montrose family and their three daughters -- Catherine, Lydia and Emeline -- flee Boston for their new country home, Willow Hall. The estate seems sleepy and idyllic, but a subtle menace creeps into the atmosphere. Remnants of a dark history that call to Lydia, and to the youngest, Emeline. All three daughters will be irrevocably changed by what follows, but none...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOXHester, Carolyn.
Contents: I'll fly away.--When Jesus lived in Galilee.--Los bibilicos.--Yarrow.--Dink's song.--Swing and turn jubilee.--Once I had a sweetheart.--Come back, baby.--Dear companion.--Galway shawl.--Pobre de mi.--Virgin Mary.--I'll fly away.--Come back, baby.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HESBass, Hester
Summary: "Discover how the black and white citizens of one Alabama city chose peace over violence in the struggle to end segregation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323 BASYoung, Hester
Summary: Expectant mother Charlie Cates suffers from prophetic dreams about a threat against her unborn daughter before discovering the astonishing identities of two double murder victims.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOUBrowne, Hester.
Summary: A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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Summary: Hilarious and warmhearted, this "deliciously addictive" (Cosmopolitan) debut romantic comedy stars a woman who goes from doormat to diva when she sets up shop as the ultimate freelance girlfriend. Melissa Romney-Jones can bake a perfect sponge cake, type her little heart out, and plan a party blindfolded. But none of that has helped her get far in life or in love. When she gets fired -- again...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROFox, Hester.
Summary: "The dead won't bother you if you don't give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances. Now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The last time (feat. Blind Boys of Alabama, vocals) (4:15) -- It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry (feat. Bob Dylan, vocals, harmonica) (4:31) -- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town (feat. Ray Charles, vocals, keyboard) (3:46) -- I'm not rough (feat. Eric Clapton, vocals, guitar) (3:03) -- Creole love call (feat. Audra McDonald, vocals) (3:12) -- Milk cow blues (feat. Willie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ MARBrown, Chester
Summary: A graphic novel about teenagers and their agony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 2002