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- The Foundations of Western Civilization. by F., Thomas,actor.; The Great Courses (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Thomas F. X. NobleOriginally produced by The Great Courses in 2002.The 200 often-turbulent years between the murdered reformers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus and the rise of Octavian saw the old Roman system drown amid overwhelming temptations and tensions brought on by Rome's very conquests.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Education films.; Social sciences.; History, Ancient.; Education.; Instructional films.;
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- Gwendy's final task / by King, Stephen,1947-author.; Chizmar, Richard,1965-author.;
"Evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities? In Gwendy's Final Task, Stephen King and Richard Chizmar take us on a journey from Castle Rock to another famous cursed Maine city to the MF-1 space station, where Gwendy must execute a secret mission to save the world. And, maybe, all worlds"--- Subjects: Horror fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Novels.; Castle Rock (Me. : Imaginary place); Good and evil; Legislators; Magic paraphernalia; Nightmares; Preteen girls; Psychopaths; Space stations; Temptation; Women authors; Women legislators;
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- Born country : how faith, family, and music brought me home / by Owen, Randy,1949-; Rucker, Allen.;
A member of the popular country music group Alabama traces his youth on a small sharecropper farm and the ways in which his faith enabled him to avoid the temptations of his successful life, in an account that also traces the story of the band.- Subjects: Owen, Randy, 1949-; Alabama (Musical group); Country musicians; Singers;
- © 2008., HarperOne,
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- Songs for the car [sound recording]. -- by Dorough, Bob.; Israel, Joseph,musician.; Richie, Lionel.; Madness (Musical group); Smash Mouth (Musical group);
Our house (Madness) -- All star (Smash Mouth) -- Three is a magic number (Bob Dorough) -- Teach your children (Joseph Israel) -- All night long (all night) (Lionel Richie) -- Route 66 (Chuck Berry) -- I got ants in my pants (and I want to dance). Pt. 1 (James Brown) -- Stir it up (Patti LaBelle) -- Ain't too proud to beg (the Temptations) -- Gonna make you sweat (everybody dance now) (C+C Music Factory) -- MMMBop (Hanson) -- Mañana iguana (Bobby McFerrin).Various performers."Ages 2+"--Container.LSC- Subjects: Popular music.; Rock music.;
- © p2008., Hip-O Records : Distributed by Universal Music Distribution,
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- Dogs and monsters : stories / by Haddon, Mark,1962-author.;
"Greek myths have fascinated people for millennia, seeing in them lessons about fate and hubris and the contingency of existence. Mark Haddon digs into the heart of these ancient fables and sees them anew. The dawn goddess Eos asked asks Zeus to give her lover Tithonus eternal life, but forgets to ask for eternal youth. In "The Quiet Limit of the World" Haddon imagines Tithonus' life as he slowly ages over thousands of years, turning the cautionary tale of tempting the gods into a spellbinding meditation on witnessing death from the outside, and ultimately, how carnal love evolves into something richer and more poignant with time. In "The Mother's Story," Haddon takes the myth of the minotaur in his labyrinth, in which the beast is the spawn of the monstrous lust of the king's wife Pasiphae, and turns it into a wrenching parable of maternal love for a damaged child, and the more real monstrosities of patriarchy. In "D.O.G.Z." the story of Actaeon, who was turned into a stag after glimpsing the naked goddess Diana and torn to pieces by his hunting dogs, becomes a visceral metaphor about the continuum of human and animal behavior. Other stories play with contemporary mythic tropes - genetic engineering, trying to escape the future, the viciousness of adolescent ostracism - to showcase how modern humans are subject to the same capriciousness that obsessed the Greeks. Haddon's tales cover a vast range, from the mythic to the domestic, from ancient Greece to the present day, from stories about love to stories about cruelty, from battlefields to bed and breakfasts, from dogs in space to doors between worlds, all of them bound together by a profound sympathy and an understanding of how human beings act and think and feel when pushed to the very edge. Throughout Haddon's supple prose showcases his astonishing powers of observation, of both the physical world and the workings of the psyche. His vision is clear-eyed, but always resolutely empathetic"--- Subjects: Short stories.;
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- Atlantis. [videorecording] / by Addy, Mark,1963-; Donnelly, Jack.; Emms, Robert,1986-; Hart, Aiysha.; Molotnikov, Justin.; Overman, Howard.; Rooper, Jemima.; Siddig, Kander.; BBC Worldwide Ltd.; Urban Myth Films.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
Jack Donnelly, Mark Addy, Robert Emms, Jemima Rooper, Aiysha Hart, Kander Siddig.Washed up on the mysterious shores of Atlantis, Jason searches for his missing father and stumbles into deadly rituals that test his quick reactions and physical strength. Perilous trials, from leaping over charging bulls and fighting the dreaded Minotaur, to surviving the rites of Dionysus and the temptations of a snake-headed goddess, ensue. No matter how great the danger, Jason can count on his two new friends, studious Pythagoras and portly Hercules, to lighten the battle with a laugh.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.- Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Atlantis (Legendary place); Fantasy television programs.; Jason (Greek mythology);
- © c2014., BBC Worldwide ; distributed by Warner Home Video,
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- Terminal grill / by Aubert, Rosemary.;
First impressions are never what they seem in this novel of dark desire, danger, and the destructiveness of temptation, set in pre-Twitter and Facebook 1987 Toronto.LSC- Subjects: Strangers; Man-woman relationships;
- © c2013., Quattro Books,
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- Last Night. by Tadjedin, Massy,film director.; Mount, Anson,actor.; Eric, Daniel,actor.; Mendes, Eva,actor.; Canet, Guillaume,actor.; Knightley, Keira,actor.; Worthington, Sam,actor.; Entertainment One Films Canada Inc (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Anson Mount, Daniel Eric Gold, Eva Mendes, Guillaume Canet, Keira Knightley, Sam WorthingtonOriginally produced by Entertainment One Films Canada Inc in 2010.The story follows a married couple, apart for a night while the husband takes a business trip with a colleague to whom he's attracted. While he's resisting temptation, his wife encounters her past love.Mode of access: World Wide Web.- Subjects: Feature films.; Motion pictures.; Drama.; Romance.;
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- The really rotten princess and the cupcake catastrophe / by Snodgrass, Cecily.; Lester, Mike.;
The princesses at Miss Prunerot's school are planning a bake sale featuring Regina's special cupcakes. Regina can't resist the temptation to live up to her nickname and do something really rotten to ruin everything.LSC- Subjects: Princesses; Cupcakes; Children; Boarding schools; Behavior;
- © c2013., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
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- We meant well : a novel / by Hasan, Erum Shazia,author.;
"A propulsive debut that grapples with timely questions about what it means to be charitable, who deserves what, and who gets the power to decide. It's the middle of the night in Los Angeles when Maya, a married mother of one, receives the phone call. Her colleague Marc has been accused of assaulting a local girl in Likanni, where they operate a charitable orphanage. Can she get on the next flight? When Maya arrives, protesters surround the compound. The accuser is Lele, her former proťǧ and the chief's daughter. There are no witnesses, no proof of any crime. What happened that night? And what will happen to the orphanage if this becomes a scandal? Caught between Marc and Lele, the charity and the villagers, her marriage and new temptations, and between worlds, Maya lives the secret contradictions of the aid worker: there to serve the most deprived, but ultimately there to govern. As Maya feels the pleasures, freedoms, and humanity of life in Likanni, she recognizes that her American life is inextricably woven into this violent reality -- and that dishonesty in one place affects the realities in another."--- Subjects: Political fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Humanitarian aid workers; Humanitarianism; Orphanages; Sex scandals;
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