Richard, Christopher
Summary: "Readers take a tour through Brazil in this comprehensive look at its geography, history, and culture. As readers explore main text that has been meticulously updated to highlight current events, they also find stunning photographs of Brazil's natural beauty and vibrant way of life. Featuring fact boxes that highlight essential words and phrases to know when traveling to this South American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 981 RICHitchens, Christopher
Summary: "At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as "the four horsemen," the heralds of religion's unravelling--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett--sat down over cocktails for a filmed discussion. The video of the enthralling, path breaking evening that followed was released on YouTube and soon went viral. This is intellectual inquiry at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 211 HITSummary: A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2000
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY SOMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SomewhereCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOM RATED PGSummary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABSSummary: A workout program designed for everyone that employs elements of classical ballet, consisting of: warm-up; stretches; abdominal exercises; floor barre routines; pliés; tendu; dégagé; passé; arabesque raises; reverence; little jumps; front attitude; grand battlement front.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.71 MARSummary: Pardoned instead of Christ, Barabbas is haunted for the rest of his life. After watching his former lover, Rachel, being stoned to death for her belief in Jesus, Barabbas returns to his life of thievery. Arrested again, he is sent to the sulfur mines and then to gladiator school where he witnesses yet another friend give his life in the name of the Nazarene. It is only at the end, when Barabbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BARSummary: In 1957, Hal Roach Studios and producer Ben Fox brought the fast-paced police drama Code 3 to television. It starred Robert Travis as Sheriff George Barrett of the Los Angeles County Police Department. Like its sister series Dragnet, Code 3 featured true crime cases. At the end of the broadcasts, the real-life Sheriff of Los Angeles County, Eugene W. Biscailuz, made an appearance to recap that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CODJackson, Richard
Summary: A puddle sits despairingly as she is trampled on by humans and animals alike until something miraculous happens that makes her feel worthwhile.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E JACCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE JACPowers, Richard
Summary: An experimental composer becomes a fugitive after his home microbiology lab, set up to find music in surprising patterns, results in a Homeland Security raid.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC POWCohen, Richard M. (Richard Martin)
Summary: The decades-long close friend of the late writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron draws on interviews with many of her closest friends to share insights into her creative life, her role in influencing other women, and her final battle with cancer.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 921 EPHRON, NORA CohHodges, Margaret
Summary: Relates the story of Offero, whose service to Jesus brought him the name of Christopher the Christ-bearer and caused him to be the patron saint of travelers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 270.1 HODFisher, Richard W.
Summary: A complete algebra I text featuring lots of examples, with step-by-step solutions, and online access to tutorial videos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Math Essentials 2018
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Summary: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a type of dementia that can be very hard on both the patient and the caregiver. Currently, five million Americans have been diagnosed with AD--and that number is likely to triple by 2050. While the cause of Alzheimer's disease is still a mystery, new research has increased our knowledge of certain aspects of the disease. Perhaps most significant, studies show that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 ISASummary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SOUSummary: Based on a true life story, Maria, leaves the convent to be the governess for the seven children of Captain von Trapp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young novice, uncertain about becoming a nun, becomes governess to 7 children of an autocratic ex-naval captain. Her charm wins over the rebellious children and the unbending captain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Sound 2002Summary: Kansas-born girl, Amelia Earhart discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23. Within 12 years she goes on to win the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia and her husband/business partner George Putnam have an enduring marriage that could not be broken by her determination to fly, nor her passionate affair with Gene Vidal. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMECopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: Ex-military investigator Jack Reacher leaps off the pages of Lee Child's bestselling novel and onto the big screen in this explosive thriller. When an unspeakable crime is committed, all evidence points to the suspect in custody who offers up a single note in defense: Get Jack Reacher! The law has its limits, but Reacher does not when his fight for the truth pits him against an unexpected enemy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAC RATED PG-13Summary: Six celebrated hosts to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare's greatest plays, revealing not just the elements in the play, but the history of the play itself. What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare get his plots, and what cultural, political and religious factors influenced his writing? Why has this body of work endured so thoroughly? What, in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHASummary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: Wraps up the final installment of this heart-warming tale from the Yorkshire dales with James Herriot, his wife Helen, and his volatile but warm-hearted partner, Siegfried Farnon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Al 7Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series All 2010Summary: Five Doctor stories with original voice actors use animation to fill in the gaps of lost episodes with original soundtracks and scripts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Ewa Cybulski and her sister sail to New York from their native Poland in search of a new start and the American dream. When they reach Ellis Island, doctors discover that Magda is ill, and the two women are separated. Ewa is released onto the mean streets of Manhattan while her sister is quarantined. Alone, with nowhere to turn and desperate to reunite with Magda, Ewa quickly falls prey to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015