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"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song -- written by world-famous superstar Jonesy -- but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight -- the other Tom Hardy, an...
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When a college professor in the remote mountains of the American West confronts two hunters she catches trespassing on her property, she's drawn into an escalating battle of wills with catastrophic consequences.
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
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399 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"One daring to-do list and a crash course in flirtation turn a Type A overachiever's world upside down. When her flailing department lands on the university's chopping block, Professor Naya Turner's friends convince her to shed her frumpy cardigan for an evening on the town. For one night her focus will stray from her demanding job and she'll tackle a new kind of to-do list. When she meets a charming stranger in town on business, he presents the perfect...
7) Plainsong
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Kent Haruf has received prestigious awards, including a special citation from the PEN/Hemingway Foundation for his finely-tuned works. Before the opening chapter of this novel, Haruf offers a definition. Plainsong is "any simple and unadorned melody or air." Direct yet elegant, Haruf's Plainsong is a hymn to the breadth of the human spirit. A high school history teacher in a small Colorado town, Guthrie is raising his two young sons alone. Thoughtful...
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to 'The Farm,' a bizarre insane asylum run by Doctor D. After being 'cured', Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer at a nearby college and begins a disastrous affair with the wife of a colleague.
9) The magus
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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An English teacher arrives on a sleepy Greek island to take up a vacant teaching post. The last man to hold the post committed suicide under mysterious circumstances. Slowly but surely, he is drawn into a bizarre game engineered by a reclusive local magician. The deeper into the game he is drawn, the more he senses danger ... yet cannot seem to untangle himself from the fascinating and compelling influence that the game is having on his mind.
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402 pages : map ; 25 cm
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English
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A new teacher at a New England prep school ignites a gender war -- with deadly consequences -- in a provocative novel from the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Spellman Files series. What do you love? What do you hate? What do you want? It starts with this simple writing prompt from Alex Witt, Stonebridge Academy's new creative writing teacher. When the students' answers raise disturbing questions of their own, Ms. Witt knows there's more...
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Beatriz, a failed psychologist, flees to her childhood home to escape fraud charges, only to discover that her quirky aunt has turned the estate into a high school. What seems at first a terrible surprise will in fact help her finally find a fulfilling path in life as an unconventional theatre instructor.
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9 unnumbered pages, 257 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
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English
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""Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen, when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Like her, neither audiences nor critics could get enough of Edward Albee's masterful play. A dark comedy, it portrays husband and wife George and Martha in a searing night of dangerous fun and games. By the evening's end, a stunning, almost unbearable revelation provides a climax that has shocked audiences for years. With the...
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