Alan Taylor
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 515 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From a Pulitzer Prize—winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac tells the story of his life to renown journalist Daniel Molloy. Beginning in 1910 New Orleans, Louis forms a vampire family with the vampire Lestat, complete with teen fledgling, Claudia.
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 611 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Returning for its second season, the award-winning series continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a world where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. From the scheming south and the savage eastern lands, to the frozen north and ancient Wall that protects the realm from the mysterious darkness beyond, the powerful families of the Seven Kingdoms are locked in a battle for the Iron Throne. This is a story of duplicity and treachery, nobility and honor, conquest, and triumph. In the Game of Thrones, you either win or you die....
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvii, 681 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding"--Book jacket.
"Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 437 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season 7 focuses on a convergence of armies and attitudes that have been brewing for years. As factions drive towards new alliance or violent conflicts, the specter of another apocalyptic threat looms in the form of an army of undead White Walkers.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (611 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe winning series for Best TV Drama continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. Moving in a new direction, can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (335 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jackie Peyton is a drug-addicted emergency room nurse in a New York City hospital. For Peyton, every day is a high-wire act of juggling patients, doctors, fellow nurses, and her own indiscretions. The second season continues its look deep inside the complicated heart and soul of a functioning addict, a loving wife and mother, and a first-class nurse.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos, but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs in 2 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 451 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison or OZ. As run by Tim McManus and overseen by Warden Leo Glenn, Em City is about prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. No matter how hardened a criminal or killer, whether you're in for a few years or in for life, you have a role to play. Once inside, choose your friends carefully.