Shawcross, Edward
Summary: "In the 1860s, Napoleon III persuaded a young Austrian Archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Political novices Maximilian and Carlota accepted the throne and arrived in a Mexico newly pacified by a French army of 30,000 troops ruled by terror, pushing Mexico's great revolutionary leader Benito Juarez to the American border. Maximilian and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAXIMILIAN SHASummary: The American: American Christopher Newman is smart, educated and rich. He is a Civil War veteran and a self made tycoon who goes to Europe to see the 'treasures and entertain' himself. He meets Claire and after the fifth meeting he asks her to marry him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HENVarèse, Edgard
Contents: Ionisation (4:50) -- Density 21.5 (4:10) -- Intègrales (9:43) -- Octandre (6:45) -- Hyperprism (3:49) -- Poème électronique (8:04).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: One Way Records 1996
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Summary: The official and definitive biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth II, grandmother of Prince Charles, and the most beloved British monarch of the twentieth century. A revelatory royal biography that is, as well, a singular history of Britain in the twentieth century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ELIZABETH, QUEEN SHASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative process. His printmaking was experimental and innovative, and he continually revisited the subjects of his paintings in striking prints, in which he evoked a wide range of emotion and mood through the use of varied techniques. Munch's early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.81 EDVHoem, Edvard
Summary: "The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna--an outsider, looking for work, who takes him fishing and smokes a pipe. Soon the two fall in love and marry, and Nesje begins to dream of a prosperous future. But prosperity is hard to come by. Some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOEVarèse, Edgard
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VARLedward, Daphne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Robson/Parkwest Publications 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.9671 LEDRadzinsky, Edvard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NICGrieg, Edvard
Contents: Peer Gynt. Suite no. 1, op. 46 / Edvard Grieg (15:42) -- Swedish rhapsody : no. 1, op. 19 'Midsommarvaka' / Hugo Alfvén (12:34) -- Peer Gynt. Suite no. 2, op. 55 / Grieg (17:16) -- Praeludium / Evard Järnefelt (2:44) -- Symphonic dances : op. 64 / Grieg (29:22).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GRIWagner, Eduard.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1967
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.441 WAGKaapana, Ledward.
Contents: Radio hula (3:33) -- My yellow Ginger Lei (:50) -- Waltz of the wind (with Alison Krauss and Sam Bush) (3:33) -- Òpihi moemoe (3:48) -- Move it on over (with Ricky Skaggs and Jerry Douglas) (2:40) -- Steel guitar rag (with Jerry Douglas) 2:25) -- Kōkeè (with Stuart Duncan) (2:56) -- Les flammes d'enfer (with Sonny Landreth) (3:32) -- Kuù ipo onaona (with Sonny Landreth) (2:29) -- Yesterday...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dancing Cat Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/OCEANIC KAASummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLIEdvard Grieg
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Larrabee Publications 1963
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMGrieg, Edvard
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Masterworks 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GREGrieg, Edvard
Contents: Peer Gynt, Suite no. 1, op. 46 ; Peer Gynt, Suite no. 2, op. 55 ; From Holberg's time = Aus Holbergs Zeit = Du temps de Holberg = Dai tempi di Holberg, op. 40 / Edvard Grieg -- Valse triste, op. 44 ; The Swan of Tuonela = Der Schwan von Tuonela = Le cygne de Tuonela = Il cigno di Tuonela, op. 22, no. 3 ; Finlandia, op. 26 / Jean Sibelius.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL GRIWard, Edward
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1937
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Rommel was a brilliant military tactician. Unfortunately, Adolph Hitler thought that he too was a military genius and demands more of Rommel than he's able to provide. Rommel incurs Hitler's wrath by retreating in North Africa, but since Rommel is a war hero he is virtually "untouchable". Rommel joins in a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer. The attempt fails, and Rommel's complicity is discovered....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESAlward, Donna
Summary: "Abby Foster is a fish out of water in the Maine coastal town of Jewell Cove. The crumbling Foster estate, left to her by a relative she never even knew, has everyone's eyes on her--an eerie reminder of the long-buried family secrets that have haunted her...forever. Single, stunning, and sometimes too strong-willed for her own good, Abby's plan is to sell the house and hightail it back to Nova...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALWBedard, Tony.
Summary: Four action-packed stories starring Thor, God of Thunder. First with great power comes...a whole lotta trouble? That's what the Wrecker finds out when he's zapped by a jolt of magical muscle meant for Loki, the god of mischief. Next, villains march across Bifrost Bridge, to challenge the forces of Odin! But wait...these are the Avengers?! Third, see how the God of Thunder came to our world, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BED SPINDLEGodward, Mary
Summary: "The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a joie de vivre that are all their own. Embracing much more than gaucho, tango, and soccer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kuperard 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.2 ARGAlward, Ron
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nat'L Ctr For Appropriate 1981