Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists. Beginning with the Germans' arrival in June 1940, they endure five years of rationing, fighting and betrayals,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FRESmith, Carrie
Summary: NYPD Detective Claire Codella has just won a tough battle with cancer. Now she has to regain her rightful place on the force. she hasn't even been back a day when Hector Sanchez, a maverick public school principal, is found murdered. The school is on high alert. The media is howling for answers. And Codella catches the high-profile case at the worst possible time. As she races to track down the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISummary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLAKacer, Kathy
Summary: Sara has never been out of the tiny town of Hope, Ontario, where she has been in an orphanage all her life. After a fire destroys the orphanage, clues about her parentage, a medical certificate and a Star of David, lead her to Germany. Sara arrives in Germany determined to explore her newly discovered Jewish heritage and solve the mystery of her parentage. What she encounters is a country still...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC KACPuddefoot, William George
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilgrim Press 1903
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUDSmith, Carrie
Summary: Only three months back on the job after cancer treatment, NYPD Detective Claire Codella finds herself at the center of a high profile case investigating the suspicious death of a Broadway legend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMILucas, Jack
Summary: A candid combat memoir recalls the battlefield exploits of a seventeen-year-old Marine Corps private, whose selfless actions at the height of the Battle of Iwo Jima not only saved his companions, but also led to him becoming the youngest Marine in history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LUCAS, JACK H. LUCEscobar, Mario
Summary: "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Escobar 2021Summary: On Easter Monday 1916, a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Although defeated militarily, the men and women of the Easter Rising would soon win a moral victory, with their actions leading to the creation of an independent Irish State and contributing to the eventual disintegration of the British Empire. They have inspired countless freedom struggles throughout...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NINSummary: Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY TILContents: Disc 1,1944-1953. Blues (JATP) ; Oh, lady be good! (JATP) ; I've found a new baby (Lester Young) ; Trav'lin' light (Billie Holiday) ; Repetition (Charlie Parker) ; Picasso (Coleman Hawkins) ; Tonga (Machito) ; Celia (Bud Powell) ; Just friends (Charlie Parker) ; Bloomdido (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie) ; Jeep's blues (Johnny Hodges) ; Drum boogie (Gene Krupa) ; Port of Rico (Illinois...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Verve 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ VERSummary: Sixth grader Peter is pretty much the average kid: he likes gaming, hanging with his friends, and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when he has to give up his most prized possession -- his bedroom -- when his recently widowed grandfather moves in with Peter's family, he's unwilling to let such an injustice stand. Peter devises a series of increasingly elaborate pranks to drive out the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WARContents: Shake it off (Taylor Swift) (3:40) -- Fancy (Iggy Azalea, featuring Charli XCX) (3:18) -- Sing (Ed Sheeran) (3:54) -- Problem (Ariana Grande, featuring Iggy Azalea) (3:14) -- All about that bass (Meghan Trainor) (3:09) -- Dark horse (Katy Perry featuring Juicy J) (3:36) -- A sky full of stars (Coldplay) (3:57) -- Wrecking ball (Miley Cyrus) (3:43) -- Chandelier (Sia) (3:37) -- All of me (live)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD Pop/Rock GrammyCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRASummary: Fistful of dollars: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Careless love / Bessie Smith -- Black eye blues / Ma Rainey -- Goin' crazy with the blues / Mamie Smith -- Me and my chauffeur blues / Memphis Minnie -- See see Rider / Bea Booze -- Freight train blues / Trixie Smith -- Moaning the blues / Victoria Spivey -- You gonna need my help / Sippie Wallace -- Electrician blues / Lizzie Miles -- Last mile blues / Ida Cox -- Unlucky woman / Helen Humes --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Quality Audio 0000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WOMContents: Boogie woogie (I may be wrong) / Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing (3:38) -- See see rider / Ma Rainey (5:08) -- Sent for you yesterday and here you come today / Count Basie, Ed Durham (3:42) -- How long how long blues / Leroy Carr (4:52) -- How you want lovin' done / Jimmy Rushing, Sam Price (4:18) -- I can't understand / Rose Marie McCoy, Connie Ingram, Robert Mellin (4:34) -- My friend Mr. Blues /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES RUSSummary: Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Thinkfilm, LLC 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NANSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Includes the English/Italian hybrid cut of the film, the International version, and the U.S. release version.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017