Summary: Girl next door, sex kitten, fitness tycoon, high-profile activist, Oscar®-winner: Jane Fonda has lived a life marked by controversy, tragedy and transformation, and she's done it all in the public eye. This exclusive HBO documentary, directed and produced by the acclaimed filmmaker Susan Lacy, draws on 21 hours of recent interviews with Fonda, who speaks candidly and frankly about her life, her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertaiment 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JAN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JAN
Basil, John.
Contents: Your 21-day journey with Will -- The Shakespeare rehearsal -- Phase I: Map reading: secrets of your script unfolded -- Day 1: Revealing your repetitions -- Day 2: Cracking the capitalization code -- Day 3: Verse or prose? -- Day 4: Picking out punctuation -- Day 5: Revving up your verbs -- Day 6: Amiable adjectives, saucy similes, and merry metaphors -- Day 7: O! thy status is showing -- Day 8:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.9 BASHuckelbridge, Dane
Summary: "American Sniper meets Jaws: The gripping true account of the Champawat Tiger, the deadliest animal of all time (killer of an astonishing 436 humans), and Jim Corbett, the legendary hunter who brought it down in 1907"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.2 HUCWaits, Tom
Contents: Hang on St. Christopher -- Straight to the top (rhumba) -- Blow wind blow -- Temptation -- Innocent when you dream (barroom) -- I'll be gone -- Yesterday is here -- Please wake me up -- Franks theme -- More than rain -- Way down in the hole -- Straight to the top (vegas) -- I'll take New York -- Telephone call from Istanbul -- Cold cold ground -- Train song -- Innocent when you dream (78).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Island 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WAIShakespeare, Nicholas
Summary: "Ian Fleming's greatest creation, James Bond, has had an enormous and ongoing impact on our culture. What Bond represents about ideas of masculinity, the British national psyche and global politics has shifted over time, as has the interpretation of the life of his author. But Fleming himself was more mysterious and subtle than anything he wrote. Ian's childhood with his gifted brother Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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Summary: A young man from the provinces a man without wealth, connections, or university educatiońmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM GREDowling, Robert M.
Summary: "A major new biography of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright whose brilliantly original plays revolutionized American theater"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, EUGENE DOWShakespeare, William
Summary: A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II (1377-1399) and Richard III (1483-1485).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 entertain [for] BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Thanks to the efforts of dedicated visionaries, there is an intergenerational learning experience spreading across the country. This fine arts forum invites the creators and supporters of outstanding school and community programs to take center stage. Together they share the positive impact the programs are having on students and the public at large, promoting art education and helping to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Ratboys (Musical group)
Contents: Molly -- Elvis is in the freezer -- Westside -- Control -- Crying about the planets -- Dangerous visions -- Wandered -- GM -- The record -- Peter the wildboy.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Topshelf Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RATO'Reilly, Bill
Summary: Identifies the fundamental differences between Snowflakes, who take offense to views that challenge their own, and traditional Old Schoolers, and evaluates the Snowflake movement's efforts to diminish Old School philosophies. Did you get up this morning knowing there are mountains to climb-- and deciding how you are going to climb them? Or did you wake up whining about safe spaces and trigger...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 OREFour Aces (Musical group)
Contents: Tell me why -- Perfidia -- Three coins in the fountain -- A garden in the rain -- You brought me love -- (It's no) sin -- Heart and soul -- I'm yours -- I understand -- Stranger in paradise -- The gang that sang "Heart of my heart" -- Should I -- Love is a many-splendored thing -- Heart -- It's a woman's world -- Melody of love -- A woman in love -- Mister Sandman.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca/MCA 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD VOCAL FOUSummary: This anthology traces the surprising story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own through a wide range of genres. The writers included range from the 1800s to the present day, and offer testimony to Shakespeare's profound and enduring influence --
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.3 SHABrothers Four
Contents: In person: The midnight special -- Darlin' sportin' Jenny -- Whoa, back, Buck! -- The thinking man, John Henry -- Across the sea -- Variation on an old English theme -- I am a rovin' gambler -- Run, come, see Jerusalem -- First battalion -- Summertime -- Greenfields -- Rock Island line -- Cross-country concert: The song of the ox driver -- Brandy wine blues -- Since my canary died -- Just a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors' Choice Music 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BROCook, Dane.
Contents: CD. Intro -- Parking structure -- Umm, hellllo? -- Car accident -- Tire in the face -- Would you rather ... -- Fireman & policeman & miniature golf course security guard -- The BK lounge -- Pregnant lady -- Five sisters -- Slip 'n' bleed -- Speak 'n' spell -- Operation ; Monopoly -- Don't tickle me -- Bathroom -- Pranks -- Fuk and the finga -- Just wanna dance -- Head -- Nightmare -- Hopped up...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Records 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN COOBird, Betsy
Summary: Did Laura Ingalls cross paths with a band of mass murderers? Why was a Garth Williams bunny tale dubbed "integrationist propaganda"? For adults who are curious about children's books and their creators, here are the little-known stories behind the stories. A treasure trove of information for a student, librarian, new parent, or anyone wondering about the post-Harry Potter book biz, Wild Things!...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 809 BIRMarçal, Katrine
Summary: The wheel was invented some 5,000 years ago, and the modern suitcase in the mid-nineteenth century, but it wasn't until the 1970s that someone successfully married the two. What was the hold up? For writer and journalist Katrine Marçal, the answer is both shocking and simple: because "real men" carried their bags, no matter how heavy. There were rolling suitcases before the '70s, but they were...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 604.82 MARSummary: When Will Shakespeare needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block, a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola starts the words flowing like never before!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHAShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 ShakeSummary: Effortlessly making the leap from stage to cinema, the plays of William Shakespeare have enjoyed decades of popularity in theaters on both sides of the Atlantic. This program combines clips from significant movie productions with an eclectic group of interviews to demonstrate the Bard's uncanny ability to fire the modern imagination-especially through the medium of film. Excerpts from Julie...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KNIAnderson, Scott
Summary: "At the end of World War II, the United States dominated the world militarily, economically, and in moral standing--seen as the victor over tyranny and a champion of freedom. But it was clear--to some--that the Soviet Union was already executing a plan to expand and foment revolution around the world. The American government's strategy in response relied on the secret efforts of a newly-formed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.1273 ANDSummary: Philosopher and scientist Dan Dennett argues that human consciousness and free will are the result of physical processes and are not what we traditionally think they are. In this TEDTalk, Dennett makes a compelling argument that not only don’t we understand our own consciousness, but that half the time our brains are actively fooling us. “Dan Dennett is our best current philosopher,” says AI...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007