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Wilfrid Laurier / by Pratte, André,1957-; Aronoff, Phyllis,1945-; Scott, Howard,1952-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Laurier, Wilfrid, Sir, 1841-1919.; Prime ministers;
© c2011., Penguin Group (Canada),
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I, Gloria Grahame / by Gilbert, Sky,1952-author.;
"A professor of English literature writes the autobiography of his fantasy alter-ego, wanton movie star Gloria Grahame, while his own sexual desires go frustrated. Denton Moulton--a shy, effeminate male professor--lives inside his head, and inside his head he is really a long-dead movie star--the glamorous Gloria Grahame, from the golden age of Hollywood. Professor Moulton is desperate to reveal Gloria's shocking secret before he dies. Does he have the right to tell this woman's story? Who, in fact, has the right to tell any story at all? This scandalous, satirical novel of taboo desires and repression alternates between Gloria's imagined life with her film-director husband (Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause) and Denton's increasingly frustrated real-life attempts to produce his own work of art, an all-male drag production of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis. It takes us from high-strung film sets to dark bars to the puritanical offices of government arts granting agencies, where Denton runs up against the sternest warnings that he may not, in fact, imagine himself as someone else, even in art."--
Subjects: Satirical literature.; Grahame, Gloria; Ray, Nicholas, 1911-1979; Authors; College teachers; Gay men;
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Frances E. W Harper : a call to conscience / by McKnight, Utz Lars,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The first full account of a leading 19th century female writer and anti-slavery activist"--
Subjects: Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911; Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911; African Americans in literature.; Antislavery movements; Politics and literature; Social change in literature.;
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The woman with the cure / by Cullen, Lynn,author.;
"She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. The man who succeeds will be a god. But Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure. Applying the same determination that lifted her from a humble background as the daughter of immigrants, to becoming a doctor--often the only woman in the room--she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine--and to decide what is forgivable, and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Horstmann, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Millicent), 1911-; Poliomyelitis; Virologists;
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True raiders : the untold story of the 1909 expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant / by Ricca, Brad,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca. This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. This amazing tale not only inspired the blockbuster film Raiders of the Lost Ark but stands on its own as an incredible story of adventure and mystery, though it has been almost completely forgotten today. In 1908, Monty is approached by a strange Finnish scholar named Valter Juvelius who claims to have discovered a secret code in the Bible that reveals the location of the Ark. Monty assembles a ragtag group of blueblood adventurers, a renowned psychic, and a Franciscan father, to engage in a secret excavation just outside the city walls of Jerusalem. Using recently uncovered records from the original expedition and several newly translated sources, True Raider is the first retelling of this group's adventures- in the space between fact and faith, science and romance"--
Subjects: Morley, Montagu Parker, Earl of, 1878-1962.; Parker Expedition (1909-1911); Ark of the Covenant.; Excavations (Archaeology);
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Fauja Singh keeps going : the true story of the oldest person to ever run a marathon / by Singh, Simran Jeet.; Kaur, Baljinder.;
"The inspiring true story of Fauja Singh, who broke world records to become the first one hundred-year-old to run a marathon, shares valuable lessons on the source of his grit, determination to overcome obstacles, and commitment to positive representation of the Sikh community"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: Fauja Singh, 1911-; Long-distance runners; Long-distance runners; Older athletes; Marathon running;
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A streetcar named Desire [videorecording (BLURAY)] / by Brando, Marlon.; Feldman, Charles K.,1904-1968.; Hunter, Kim,1922-; Kazan, Elia.; Leigh, Vivien,1913-1967.; Malden, Karl.; North, Alex.; Saul, Oscar.; Stradling, Harry,1907-1970.; Weisbart, David.; Williams, Tennessee,1911-1983.Streetcar named Desire.Videorecording.; Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Director of photography, Harry Stradling; editor, David Weisbart; music, Alex North; adaptation by Oscar Saul.Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden.Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans during the restless years following WWII, this is a story of Blanche DuBois, a fragile and neurotic woman on a desperate prowl for someplace in the world to call her own. An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is raped and driven mad by her brother-in-law.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic widescreen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio); Dolby digital.
Subjects: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.; Feature films.; Lust; Man-woman relationships; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.;
© c2012., Warner Home Video,
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The Wharton plot : a novel / by Fredericks, Mariah,author.;
"New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips - a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women's place in it - is shot to death outside the Princeton Club. Edith herself met the man only once, when the two formed a mutual distaste over tea in the Palm Court of the Belmont hotel. When Phillips is killed, Edith's life takes another turn. His sister is convinced Graham was killed by someone determined to stop the publication of his next book, which promised to uncover secrets that powerful people would rather stayed hidden. Though unconvinced, Edith is curious. What kind of book could push someone to kill? Inspired by a true story, The Wharton Plot follows Edith Wharton through the fading years of the Gilded Age in a city she once loved so well, telling a taut tale of fame, love, and murder, as she becomes obsessed with solving a crime"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Novels.; Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911; Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937; Murder; Women authors;
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The fox and the hound [videorecording] ; The fox and the hound 2 / by Bailey, Pearl.; Berman, Ted,1919-2001.; Bobo, Jonah.; Fahn, Harrison.; Kammerud, Jim.; Mannix, Daniel P.(Daniel Pratt),1911-1997.Fox and the hound.Videorecording.; McEntire, Reba.; Rich, Richard.; Rooney, Mickey.; Russell, Kurt.; Stevens, Art.; Swayze, Patrick.; Buena Vista Home Video (Firm); Walt Disney Pictures.; Walt Disney Productions.; Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (Firm);
The fox and the hound (ca. 83 min.) -- The fox and the hound II (ca. 69 min.).The fox and the hound / Walt Disney Productions ; directed by Art Stevens, Ted Berman, Richard Rich ; musical score composed and conducted by Buddy Baker ; orchestration, Walter Sheets -- The fox and the hound II / Walt Disney Pictures ; directed by Jim Kammerud ; produced by Ferrell Barron ; screenplay by Rich Burns and Roger S.H. Schulman ; score composed and conducted by Joel McNeely.Voices (The fox and the hound II): Jonah Bobo, Harrison Fahn, Reba McEntire, Patrick Swayze, Jeff Foxworthy, Vicki Lawrence, Stephen Root.Voices (The fox and the hound): Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey, Jack Albertson, Sandy Duncan, Jeanette Nolan, Paul Winchell.The fox and the hound II: In this sequel to the Disney classic, Cooper the hound and Todd the fox share adventures as they learn how to handle conflict and remain friends despite their differences.The fox and the hound: As infants, a fox and a hound become friends before they even know that they are supposed to be enemies.Canadian Home Video Rating: G.DVD; NTSC, region 1; Dolby Digital; widescreen presentation, 1.66:1 aspect ratio (The fox and the hound) ; widescreen presentation 1.78:1 aspect ratio (The fox and the hound II).
Subjects: Mannix, Daniel P. (Daniel Pratt), 1911-1997.; Animated films.; Children's films.; Dogs; Feature films.; Foxes; Foxhounds; Friendship; Video recordings for children.;
© c2011., Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video,
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The Ardlamont mystery : the real-life story behind the creation of Sherlock Holmes / by Smith, Daniel,1976-author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-246) and index.
Subjects: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930; Littlejohn, Henry (Henry Duncan), 1826-1914.; Bell, Joseph, 1837-1911.; Murder; Trials (Murder);
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