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Adams, John 1947- Film and video adaptations Atomic bomb Drama Authors, American 20th century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Drama Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010 Sellars, Peter Film and video adaptations United States Blue Ridge Mountains VirginiaFilter By Subjects
Adams, John 1947- Film and video adaptations Atomic bomb Drama Authors, American 20th century Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary HISTORY / United States / 20th Century Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1904-1967 Drama Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David) 1919-2010 Sellars, Peter Film and video adaptations United States Blue Ridge Mountains VirginiaSummary: In 1950s London, a widowed cleaning lady falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, deciding she must have one of her own. After working to raise the funds to pursue her dream, she embarks on an adventure to Paris that will change not only her own outlook, but the very future of the House of Dior.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MRSCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSSummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SmartSummary: "In this compelling profile, friends, family, colleagues, and noted historians shed light on one of the nation's greatest heroes. Rare footage reveals the defining moments of Eisenhower's life--from his military victories to his presidential inauguration. Dwight D. Eisenhower: commander- in-chief is the authoritative program about the life and legacy of this remarkable American icon"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DWISummary: They may have escaped the maze but Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Summary: In John Adams' opera, J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists explore the moral implications of the development of the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Opus Arte 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA DOCBeller, Thomas
Summary: "Three years after his death at ninety-one, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014