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- The last days of John Lennon / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Sherman, Casey,1969-author.; Wedge, Dave,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared for their safety. "You might as well put a target on me," Lennon said, and the Nixon administration complied by opening an FBI file. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focused on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with his onetime idol. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by actualizing the target on Lennon -- single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Lennon, John, 1940-1980.; Lennon, John, 1940-1980; Chapman, Mark David.; Rock musicians;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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- The Legend of Bruce Lee [videorecording (DVD)] / by Le, Bruce;
Not rated.
- Subjects: Lee, Bruce, 1940-1973; Martial arts films;
- © c1986, 2000., Goodtimes Home Video,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The last days of John Lennon [sound recording] / by Patterson, James,1947-author.; Wolf, Matthew,narrator.; Clyde, K. C.,1980-narrator.; Sherman, Casey,1969-author.; Wedge, Dave,author.; Hachette Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Matthew Wolf and K. C. Clyde."John Lennon was one of the world's most influential people. Mark David Chapman was one of the most invisible. By the end of 1980, the Beatles had been broken up for a decade -- a decade John Lennon had spent in search of his true identity: singer, songwriter, activist, burn out. "It's the perfect time to be coming back," he declared. Except that Lennon was a marked man. As early as the Beatles' controversial 1966 American tour, the band had feared for their safety. "You might as well put a target on me," Lennon said, and the Nixon administration complied by opening an FBI file. If only the agents hadn't been so intently focused on the star himself, they might have detected Mark David Chapman's powerful, ever-growing obsession with his onetime idol. Chapman, himself a tragic nowhere man, ultimately achieved the notoriety he craved by actualizing the target on Lennon -- single-handedly wounding the spirit of a generation."--Publisher's description.
- Subjects: Biographies.; Audiobooks.; Chapman, Mark David.; Lennon, John, 1940-1980; Lennon, John, 1940-1980.; Rock musicians;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- For whom the bell tolls / by Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961,author.; Hemingway, Seán A.,editor,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references.In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In his portrayal of Jordan's love for the beautiful Maria and his superb account of El Sordo's last stand, in his brilliant travesty of La Pasionaria and his unwillingness to believe in blind faith, Hemingway surpasses his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms to create a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." Greater in power, broader in scope, and more intensely emotional than any of the author's previous works, it stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
- Subjects: War fiction.; Classics; Literary; Americans;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- The liberation of Paris : how Eisenhower, de Gaulle, and von Choltitz saved the City of Light / by Smith, Jean Edward,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-229) and index."The liberation of Paris tells the dramatic story of the Allied decision in World War II to divert from the strategic plan in order to save the City of Light from chaos and assist de Gaulle's efforts to become France's new leader even as the German general in charge of the occupation defied his orders to destroy the city as the Allies closed in"--
- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- John Lennon : the life / by Norman, Philip,1943-;
Includes bibliography references and index.
- Subjects: Lennon, John, 1940-1980.; Rock musicians;
- © 2008., Doubleday Canada,
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Pelé [videorecording] : birth of a legend / by Grazer, Brian,1953-film producer.; Wilson, Colin,film producer.; Zimbalist, Jeff,film director.; Zimbalist, Michael,film director.; Santoro, Rodrigo,1975-actor.; D'Onofrio, Vincent,actor.; Boneta, Diego,1990-actor.; Paula, Kevin De,actor.; IFC Films,publisher.;
Vincent D'onofrio, Rodrigo Santoro, Diego Boneta, Kevin De Paula, Leonardo Lima Carvalho, Mariana Nunes.Pele. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn't afford a real soccer ball.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, some smoking and language.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Sports films.; Pelé, 1940-; Soccer players; Soccer;
- For private home use only.
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Who is Alex Trebek? : a biography / by Rogak, Lisa,1962-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A biography of Jeopardy host Alex Trebek"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Trebek, Alex, 1940-; Television personalities;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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- Under occupation : a novel / by Furst, Alan,author.;
"After the Nazi victory over Poland in 1939, thousands of Poles were sent to Germany as slave laborers. From inside enemy territory, they found ways to get valuable information to resistance fighters in France. Paul Ricard, a French writer of detective novels, is drawn in to working in the resistance, as a spy against the Reich, and is charged with getting the information from the Polish prisoners to the Allied forces. Alongside him in the fight against Germany are an émigré girl and a mysterious Turkish woman who is in the contract espionage business."--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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- Taking Paris : the epic battle for the city of lights / by Dugard, Martin,author.;
"From Martin Dugard, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Killing series with Bill O'Reilly, comes the spellbinding story of the Allied liberation of Paris from the grip of the Nazis during World War II"--
- Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
- Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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