Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
[2011], c1984
Language
English
Description
Nebraska in the 1880s: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect the Wild West to be. But for a naïve Swedish immigrant (David Warner), the frontier parlor of The Blue Hotel represents the quintessential Western fantasy. No one can convince The Swede that his dime-store notions about the West are foolish. He sees murderous intentions all around him, and in his terror he turns everybody against him. Inevitably the Swede attracts tragedy. However,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Larry Crane provides recording tips for tailoring effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors.
Music Production Secrets is a series with Tape Op magazine founder and Jackpot! Recording Studio owner Larry Crane. Larry provides a new technique for tailoring your effects, gaining sonic control, and opening new creative doors during mixing and tracking. These tutorials work with any DAW, in almost every recording scenario, and are...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“Clairvoyant with Hunger consists of fourteen short essays on poems from James Dickey's last book; The Eagle’s Mile; twelve short essays on James Wright's best prose poems; a long essay on Dickey's third novel, To the White Sea; a long essay on W.S. Merwin's 320-page poem, The Folding Cliffs; an essay on the major Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail; a familiar essay on the Japanese poet, Ryuichi Tamura, whose work I translated for publication during my...
Pub. Date
[2007], c2007
Language
English
Description
It is a creative impulse as old as humanity itself: to depict life faithfully, accurately, in words or images. This program shows how that impulse led to Realism - a widespread artistic movement, born in the latter half of the 19th century, which rejected pretense, distortion, and sentimentality. Incorporating interviews with art historians and literary scholars, the program explores the sociopolitical origins of the phenomenon in the 1848 Revolution...
Pub. Date
[2010], c2007
Language
English
Description
This A&E Special presents the Spanish-American War - a "splendid little war" that marked America's foray into modern geopolitics. The events both before and during the war serve as lenses through which to examine a period in U.S. history characterized by idealism and exuberance, on the one hand, and jingoism and opportunism on the other. This was a youthful America discovering its place on the world stage at the dawn of what was to become the American...
13) Reading Rainbow
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Feature Book - Mama Don't Allow When Miles gets a saxophone for his birthday, neither his parents nor his neighborhood can stand the racket! No one guesses what's in store for them, when Miles and his Swamp Band receive an invitation to play at the Alligator Ball. Alligator Farm - A visit to Kliebert's Alligator Farm where Heather Burden, a Naturalist from the New Orleans Zoo, tells LeVar about alligators and lets him hold a small one. Meet Fred Newman...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Purchase Suggestion Service. Submit Request