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Nilsen, Anna Ponting, Herbert George. Stern, Jane. Willan, Anne Willan, Anne. Wilson, Ann Wilson, Ann.Summary: Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BESSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ISummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PACSummary: Calamity Jane is a calamity at love--she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Calamity 2005Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYContents: Give a little love (Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers) (4:02) -- This old man (Bob Dylan) (3:05) -- Cushie Butterfield (Sting) (1:14) -- Mary had a little lamb (Paul McCartney) (3:31) -- The ballad of Davy Crockett (Stephen Bishop) (3:20) -- Itsy bitsy spider (Little Richard) (3:38) -- Chicken lips and lizard hips (Bruce Springsteen) (1:42) -- Country feelin's (Brian Wilson) (2:42) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV FORWillan, Anne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.813 WILNilsen, Anna
Summary: A spot-the-difference game, mystery story, and art book in which readers try to tell which paintings are genuine and which are forgeries. Includes magnifying glass and split-page format.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kingfisher 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 751.5 NILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 751.58 NILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Fine NilsenNilsen, Anna
Summary: This vibrantly illustrated picture book shows that best friends share good times, and although they also tire of each other occasionally, it doesn't mean the end of their friendship.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gingham Dog Press 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 PONStern, Jane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 STEWilson, Ann
Summary: Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, two women who broke gender barriers in rock music, share their story, revealing their struggles with body image, relationships, and their place in the rock pantheon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: It Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 WILSummary: Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWWillan, Anne.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.692 WILWilson, Ann
Summary: Heart's Ann Wilson creates a supremely lavish, warm, and seductive slice of rock n' roll that provides an instant soundtrack whether on the freeway or in front of the fireplace.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WILSummary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATWillan, Anne
Summary: "Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food WillanWillan, Anne.
Contents: Essential flavors -- Tips from the pros -- Saucery -- Eggscetera -- Fabulous fish and seafood -- From the farmyard -- Mastering meats -- Perfect pasta and rice -- The vegetable story -- Pastry fundamentals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 WILWillan, Anne.
Summary: A collection of life stories and fifty recipes from the founder of La Varenne Cooking School shares upbeat, no-nonsense guidelines on the secrets of French cooking interspersed with reminiscences about the author's culinary training.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WILWilson, Ann
Contents: Goodbye Blue Sky (3:13) -- Where To Now St. Peter? (4:38) -- Jackson (3:36) -- We Gotta Get Out Of This Place (3:45) -- Immigrant Song (3:43) -- Darkness, Darkness (4:38) -- Bad Moon Rising (3:16) -- War Of Man (4:39) -- Get Together (4:04) -- Isolation (3:03) -- A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (6:14) -- Little Problems, Little Lies (3:32).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Rounder 2015