Shepard, Sam
Contents: The remedy man -- Coalinga 1/2 way -- Berlin Wall piece -- Blinking eye -- Betty's cats -- The door to women -- Foreigners -- Living the sign -- The company's interest -- Concepción -- It wasn't Proust -- Convulsion -- An unfair question -- A frightening seizure -- Tinnitus -- The stout of heart -- Great dream of heaven -- All the trees are naked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEShepard, Sam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHESummary: Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in the early '60s and remained close friends despite living very different lives. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated author while Dark was a homebody with a penchant for photography and letter writing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHESummary: After killing a home invader in self defense, an East Texas man finds his family's life in danger when the dead man's father, a ruthless ex-con, rolls into town seeking revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COLSummary: It's the early 1900s, and weather-beaten cowhand Hewey Calloway rides in from the vast Texas range after learning his brother's farm is in danger of foreclosure. Arriving in a nearby town, what the middle-aged roughrider finds amazes yet threatens him - automobiles and civilized society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Pictures Worldwide 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Good 2012Summary: "A mesmerizing, impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs. Stunningly lensed in color and b/w by Seamus McGarvey, the film explores the actor's enigmatic outlook on his life, his unexploited talents as a musician, and includes candid scenes with David Lynch, Wim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HARSummary: In the near future, the Navy develops a stealth fighter plane. On board piloting the jet is an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat maneuvers from the human pilots aboard. But when the computer develops a mind of its own, it's the humans who are charged with stopping it before it incites a war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Stealth 2005Summary: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A documentary of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa featuring his family, colleagues and critics from Japan and America commenting on the man and his films. Includes excerpts from many of his famous works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KURSummary: Captain Sam Cahill is embarking on his fourth tour of duty, leaving behind his beloved wife and two daughters. When Sam's Blackhawk helicopter is shot down in the mountains of Afghanistan, the worst is presumed, leaving an enormous void in the family. Despite a dark history, Sam's charismatic younger brother steps in to fill the family void.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROSummary: A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THUSummary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOSummary: Surviving what everyone thought was a fatal ambush in Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLASummary: Fern is a young farm girl who rescues a runt pig, Wilbur. Wilbur is saved from certain death and Fern visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house." Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Charlotte's 2007Summary: A moving story about two men who love the same woman. A fugitive from the slums of Chicago finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSummary: Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Pictures 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Ithaca 2016Summary: Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUTSummary: Martin Scorsese's pseudo-documentary film, composed of both fictional and non-fictional material, about Bob Dylan's legendary 1975 tour, which featured a band of troubadours including Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and Joni Mitchell, and blends behind-the-scenes archival footage, interviews, and narrative mischief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROLSummary: The story of the filly Ruffian, who dominated horse racing in the early 1970s, until a broken leg at Belmont Park ended her career and her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ESPN Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RUFSummary: A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For a local reporter the trial strikes home when he finds his ex-lover is linked to the case.DVD.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Snow 1999Gere, Richard
Summary: In the early 20th century, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago becomes pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby in the wheatfields of Texas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DAYSummary: A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001