Summary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARGReal Estate
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2024
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Summary: A short story collection traces the experiences of everyday citizens, expats, and travelers in Mexico whose lives are turned upside down by the violence and chaos of the drug cartels.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARSummary: A two-part series that tells the story of the three monarchs who reigned over Europe's greatest powers at the outbreak of the First World War: Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The emerging divisions and rivalries between the inter-related houses of Europe brought change, tragedy and personal humiliation. Of the three great Imperial dynasties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROYReal Estate (Musical group)
Contents: Friday (4:57) -- Paper cup / (featuring Sylvan Esso) (4:30) -- Gone (3:13) -- You (3:52) -- November (2:22) -- Falling down (4:31) -- Also a but (5:23) -- The main thing (2:35) -- Shallow sun (4:14) -- Sting (1:49) -- Silent world (4:42) -- Procession (3:31) -- Brother (2:55).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REAReal Estate (Musical group)
Contents: Darling -- Serve the song -- Stained glass -- After the moon -- Two arrows -- White light -- Holding pattern -- Time -- Diamond eyes -- Same sun -- Saturday.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK REAGreen, Joshua
Summary: In this masterful account of one of our era's defining political sagas, a national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek traces the rise of economic populism in the Democratic Party through the interwoven stories of three outsiders who emerged in the wake of the crash to lead the charge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: The shocking elevation of Steve Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Politic GreenGreen, Joshua
Summary: "In his classic book Devil's Bargain, Joshua Green chronicled how the forces of economic populism on the right, led by the likes of Steve Bannon, turned Donald Trump into their flawed but powerful vessel. In The Rebels, he gives an epic account of the long struggle that has played out in parallel on the left, told through an intimate reckoning with the careers of the three political figures who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 GRESummary: Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle works in the English town of Hastings. As World War II tears at the social fabric of this once quiet coastal community, Foyle investigates crimes the conflict has fostered on the home front.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOYSummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: The sequel to Hope and glory, Bill Rohan is grown up and drafted into the army where he and his best mate battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUESummary: Spring fever runs wild when a snooty native son returns to his family farm in rural Australia and brings along his voluptous new wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Contents: Pillars -- Roses in water -- Every shining time you arrive -- Two promises -- 100 million -- How it feels to be something on -- The prophet -- Guitar and video games -- The shark's own private f**k -- Days were golden.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sub Pop 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SUNSummary: The result of the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016 caused a political earthquake that laid waste to the normally stable British establishment and sent political tremors across the world. This punchy and provocative feature length drama goes exclusively behind the scenes of the 'Vote Leave' campaign, unpacking the personalities, strategies, and feuds of the winning side, and exploring the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BRESummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASRiordan, Rick.
Summary: After three demigods named Jason, Piper, and Leo visit Camp Half-Blood, they inherit a quest: to free Hera, a prisoner of Gaia. But who are the other four demigods mentioned in prophesy who will join them in their quest? The answer may lie in another camp miles away, where a new camper has shown up and appears to be the son of Neptune, god of the sea.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Called to the neutral zone to help negotiate peace between the Romulans and the Federation, Picard and the crew of the Enterprise are confronted by the mysterious new Romulan Praetor Shinzon, a man who claims to be Picard's clone, and who plans to lead a Romulan attack on the Federation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: An inspirational and heroic true-life story of Jeff Bauman, the man whose iconic photo from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing captured the hearts all over the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Roadside Attractions LLC 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STR RATED RSummary: It is 2153. The crew of the starship Enterprise are engaging in the third year of their mission under the command of Captain Jonathan Archer. An alien probe has attacked the Earth, killing over seven million people. The Enterprise is sent to track down and stop the aliens from attacking again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiBeardyman
Contents: A cheerful and sunny disposition -- 2^25,000:1 against and falling -- Getting there -- Fndege.Gurp -- You only like what you know -- Brain -- Perfect waste of time -- I will never win -- A view -- Mountain side (featuring Ellie Rose Rusbridge) -- Before the fall/Move on.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One U.S.Lp 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BEASummary: Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017