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By Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954- Marshall, Frank Chaffin, Cen Roth, Eric, 1945- Swicord, Robin Fincher, David Pitt, Brad, 1963- Blanchett, Cate, 1969- Henson, Taraji P Ormond, Julia Flemyng, Jason Ali, Mahershalalhashbaz Koteas, Elias, 1961- Harris, Jared, 1961- Somerville, Phyllis Swinton, Tilda Desplat, Alexandre Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Curious[2009], Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Cur Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus given little chance of survival. He does survive and gets younger with time. Abandoned by Thomas Button, his biological father, after Benjamin's biological mother dies in childbirth, Benjamin is raised by Queenie, a black woman and caregiver at a seniors' home. Daisy's grandmother was a resident, which is where she first met Benjamin. Although separated through the years, Daisy and Benjamin remain in contact throughout their lives, reconnecting in their forties when they finally match up in age. Some of the revelations in Benjamin's diary are difficult for Caroline to read.
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-- Disney's Ruby Bridges.By Hopkins, Anne Johnson, Toni Ann, 1968- Palcy, Euzhan Miller, Penelope Ann Pollak, Kevin, 1958- Beach, Michael Kelly, Jean Louisa James, Peter Francis Darbo, Patrika Monet, Chaz, 1990- Scarwid, Diana, 1955- Rochon, Lela, 1966- Simmons, John W LaMastra, Paul Rushen, Patrice Bridges, Ruby Walt Disney Home Video (Firm) Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)2004., General, Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Call No: DVD 791.45 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Disney DVD.Summary Note: When bright six year old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local New Orleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time.
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[1974], c1947., Signet Classic Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shows the decline of the land-owning Southern aristocracy.
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By Kazan, Elia Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 Saul, Oscar Feldman, Charles K, 1904-1968 Leigh, Vivien, 1913-1967 Hunter, Kim, 1922-2002 Malden, Karl Brando, Marlon Stradling, Harry, 1901-1970 Day, Richard, 1894-1972 Weisbart, David North, Alex Heindorf, Ray, 1908-1980 Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983. Streetcar named Desire Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) Warner Home Vi[2010]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After being exiled from her hometown of Auriol, Mississippi for seducing a seventeen-year-old boy at the school where she taught English, Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly at the New Orleans home of her pregnant sister Stella Kowalski and her Stella's husband Stanley. Stanley, both repulsed and attracted to Blanche, discovers that she has mortgaged property left to both sisters and spent all the money whereby he sets about discovering everything else he can about her past. Tension between Blanche and Stanley builds as time passes and is intensified when Blanche begins dating one of Stanley's poker buddies.
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[2004]., New Directions Call No: DRAMA Availability:25 of 25 At Location(s) Summary Note: Blanche DuBois, a haggard and fragile southern beauty finds her pathetic last grasp at happiness cruelly destroyed in large part by her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski.