Taylor, Alan
Summary: "From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 TAYTaylor, Alan
Contents: Loyalists -- Simcoe -- United Irishmen -- Deserters -- Blood -- Invasions -- Crossings -- Scalps -- Flames -- Northern lights -- Traitors -- Soldiers -- Prisoners -- Honor -- Peace -- Aliens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 TAYTaylor, Alan
Summary: Challenges the traditional Anglocentric focus of colonial history by examining the various cultural influences from which the United States emerged and documenting the intricate ecological, ethnic, and economic history of the New World.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 TAYTaylor, Alan
Summary: The changing relationship of Joseph Brant, a young Mohawk, and Samuel Kirkland, the son of a colonial clergyman is set against the role of the Native American peoples in North America during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.7 TAYTaylor, Alan
Summary: The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 TAYTaylor, Alan
Summary: Recreates the events that inspired hundreds of slaves to pressure British admirals into becoming liberators by using their intimate knowledge of the countryside to transform the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.503 TAYRickman, Alan
Summary: From his breakout role in Die Hard to his outstanding, multifaceted performances in the Harry Potter films, Galaxy Quest, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and more, Alan Rickman cemented his legacy as a world-class actor. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice, and the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate audiences today. But Rickman’s ability to breathe life into projects...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RICKMAN RICSummary: In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INTSummary: A lavish period drama set in Atlantic City, following the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed political and criminal mastermind whose grip on power and control of the city's liquor supply is under constant threat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BOASummary: History tells us that Napoleon died in exile on the Island of St. Helena. Or did he? In 1821, a secret network of Napoleonic loyalists hatch an ingenious plot: the Emperor will return to Paris and a double will take his place in exile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY EmpSummary: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos, but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE THOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ThSummary: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2021
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MANSchwarzenegger, Arnold
Summary: When Sergeant Kyle Reese is sent back to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor and safeguard the future, a sudden turn of events creates a fractured timeline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TER RATED PG-13Summary: Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OZCooper, James Fenimore
Summary: With his second novel, The Spy:A Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821, James Cooper (the Fenimore would come later) found his true voice and what became his most enduring subject matter: the history of his young nation, born of the clash between Old World and New. Set largely in Westchester County--site of the real-life intrigues of Benedict Arnold and Major John Andre--The Spy traces the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOTaylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1964
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.3 TAYTaylor, A. J. P. (Alan John Percivale)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames & Hudson 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5 TAYSummary: A church destroyed. A congregation silenced. A relationship shattered. Yet even in life's darkest valleys, a small flame can light the way toward healing and hope. After a deadly fire rips through St. James Church, Hadleigh University leaders use the tragedy to push the congregation off campus, forcing the church to defend its rights and bringing together estranged brothers for a reunion that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family God's 2018Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GoHalsall, Matthew.
Contents: Harmony with Nature (9:11 min) -- Joyful Spirits of the Universe (10:40 min) -- Canopy & Stars (7:51 min) -- Mindfulness Meditations (2:49 min) -- Tropical Landscapes (8:27 min) -- Salute to the Sun (11:01 min) -- The Energy of Life (7:19 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ HALContents: Break out the blues -- Gee baby, ain't I good to you -- I'll close my eyes -- Movin' along (Sid's twelve) -- Night lights -- Reunion blues -- The Serman -- Sunny -- This here.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2007
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 785.33 JAZSummary: On the verge of turning 15, Georgia sets her sights on Robbie, the gorgeous new guy at school who plays bass for the Stiff Dylans. Sadly, he is already dating her evil archrival: blonde, perfect Lindsay. With her flamboyantly dressed cat Angus and her girl posse, the Ace Gang, by her side, Georgia sets her plan in motion to nab the boyfriend of her dreams, and have the best birthday party ever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANGContents: Desafinado -- The girl from Ipanema -- How insensitive -- Jazz n' samba -- Meditation -- Once I loved -- One note samba -- Quiet nights of quiet stars -- Triste -- Wave.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Leonard 2002
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 781.63 ANTSummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004