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Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
vii, 107 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
A Christmas memory: A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.
One Christmas: An eight-year-old boy spends the holidays in New Orleans with a father he's never known. He dreams of finding Santa, snow and a relationship with his father, but instead finds a man who cares more about making a fast buck.
The Thanksgiving visitor: A boy recalls his life with...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xx, 150 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Truman Capote's unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through Capote's social circle--and the entire literary world."-- Dust jacket flap.
"Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A little boy is abandoned by his parents and raised by some older unmarried cousins, where he develops a close bond with one of the ladies. When he is urged to move on with his life by one of them, he never forgets the memories of his favorite friend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (997 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eccentric New York City playgirl Holly Golightly is determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire until she meets her new next-door neighbor; a fashion photographer pulls a shy bookstore clerk from obscurity to become a model in Paris; a Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady under the tutelage of an arrogant professor; a screenwriter has a deadline and no script until his secretary comes to the rescue by acting out a series of preposterous plotlines;...
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 5
Description
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. Her next-door neighbor, a writer, is "sponsored" by a wealthy patroness. Guessing who's the right man for Holly is easy; seeing just how romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of the film.
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The national bestselling biography and the basis for the film Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in an Academy Award–winning turn. One of the strongest fiction writers of his generation, Truman Capote became a literary star while still in his teens. His most phenomenal successes include Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood, and Other Voices, Other Rooms. Even while his literary achievements were setting the standards that other fiction and...
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Description
Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends -- the alluring socialites Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans.""--
10) Capote
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold Blood." He arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners,...
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