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(0)Blair Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Traces the early life of Sigmund Freud, from his birth in 1856 to the publication of his landmark book, The Interpretation of Dreams, in 1900. Part Two follows Freud's research and examines his revolutionary theories, now part of the fabric of 20th-century thought and shaping of contemporary notions of identity, memory, childhood, and sexuality.
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Destination America looks at the driving forces that have compelled individuals to immigrate to America and, in particular, the immigration of women who have come to this country in search of opportunity and basic human rights denied them in their homelands.
44) RFK
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
"RFK, a new biography of Robert Kennedy ... takes as its theme lines from Aeschylus that Kennedy could recite from memory: "He who learns must suffer." RFK is a tragedy in two acts. In part one: The garish sun, Robert Kennedy devotes himself to his glamorous brother John, suppressing his own ambitions for the sake of the Kennedy name. In part two: The awful grace of God, after an assassin's bullet takes his brother's life, RFK is bereft, not only...
45) Stealing home
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An ex-ballplayer returns home, thinking of the past and of the person who made it special. A long-time friend and mentor draws the loose ends of his past and present lives together.
46) Sister Aimee
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the controversial, charismatic, wildly popular evangelist that includes original film and sound recordings, re-creations, commentary by historians and other experts, and personal accounts.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Harper Perennial edition.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.
48) Number the stars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Youth Large Print.
Language
English
Description
"Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people, across the sea to Sweden. The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war. A modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans."
Author
Language
English
Description
When beautiful, blond Sheila married the charming, handsome Blackthorne, she was convinced she had found her perfect soul mate, and helped him attain the privileged life of the country club set. But behind Allen's smooth facade, she discovered a violent, controlling sociopath - a liar, a scam artist, a sexual deviant. When she finally fled with their two young daughters, she was skeletally thin, bruised, and beaten. Although Sheila recovered and remarried,...
50) First born
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After finally becoming pregnant and moving to the suburbs with her husband, Laura begins to feel alone and isolated in their beautiful, huge but secluded home. When the baby is born, she quickly finds that motherhood is more challenging than she expected and gradually begins falling into postpartum depression. Saddled with the primal maternal need to protect her infant at all costs, Laura slowly begins to question whether her child is in danger or...
51) Altered states
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The incredible terrifying tale of a research scientist experimenting with altered states of consciousness, and the horrors he finds in secret landscapes of the mind.
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family-- a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people. This eloquent comedy serves up an allegorical tale of one American family whose members must come to grips with their destinies. Having survived fire, flood, pestilence, seven-year locusts, the Ice Age and a dozen wars, the Antrobuses are as durable as radiators,...
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
First performed in 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's sophisticated comedy of manners satirizes the extravagance and corruption of London society. "The School for Scandal's" combination of elegant language and earthy comedy weaves a deliciously nasty tale of intrigue, slander and clandestine love affairs. Blair Brown stars in this timeless, witty look at the wages of scandal mongering and social climbing, scheming and hypocrisy.
55) Kennedy
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Dramatic recreation of the Kennedy presidency from inside the White House. Explores his relationships within the family and with Jackie, his womanizing and its obsessive scrutiny by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and portrays the tragic events that found Jack, Jackie and the family, even in "Camelot."
56) The bad seed
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother makes the tortuous discovery that her cherubic eight year old daughter harbors an innate desire to kill and remembers the horrors of her own forgotten childhood. As Christine fits the puzzle pieces together, tension and menace build into a taunt cocoon of overpowering dread. And, unlike the earlier movie, this production includes the original ending, a chilling denouement considered too shocking for '50s audiences.
57) Anthem
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of two cousins who must take a road trip across American in 1969 in order to let a teen know he's been drafted to fight in Vietnam. Full of photos, music, and figures of the time, this is the masterful story of what it's like to be young and American in troubled times.
58) One-trick pony
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An aging musician attempts to put together his new album in the face of an indifferent record label and talentless producer while struggling to save his troubled marriage.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Joseph Armagh is a poor Irish immigrant who is determined to create a better life for his family. He arrives in America in the mid-19th century. Through personal struggle, heartache and perseverance, he becomes one the the wealthest and most powerful men in the country.
60) Gatekeeper
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting -- from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City -- stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power. Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at the American consulate. Her return to Paris forces her to revisit tragedy: the assassination of her...
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