Summary: "For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding New York Magazine and creating the enduring I (heart) NY campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable artistic output is revealed in this documentary portrait, Milton Glaser: to inform & delight. From newspapers and magazine designs, to interior spaces, logos and brand identities, to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MILSummary: With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The artist describes his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthouse Films 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHUSummary: In his short career, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a phenomenon. He became notorious for his graffiti art under the moniker Samo in the late 1970s on the Lower East Side scene, sold his first painting to Deborah Harry for $200, and became best friends with Andy Warhol. Appreciated by both the art cognoscenti and the public, Basquiat was launched into international stardom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JEASummary: Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HERKunstler, William
Summary: Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler examine the life of their late father, radical civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILSummary: Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world's only penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FINSullivan, Tom
Summary: "A minute-by-minute account of the only unsolved airplane hijacking in the United States uses reproductions of FBI files and investigation photographs to chronicle the events surrounding an unidentified extortionist's 1971 hijacking and disappearance."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "A freighter carrying top-secret computers disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BROBrown, Graham
Summary: "A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrownMcGarry, Flynn
Summary: Profiles the life and career of Chef Flynn McGarry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHEDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: Frank and Joe vote to solve the mystery of who sabotaged their friend's election speech in this Hardy Boys Secret Files adventure.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIXRoth, Veronica
Summary: A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROTSummary: A deeply religious Midwestern businessman enters the dark world of the pornography business in California in search of his young runaway daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HARWeaver, Sue.
Contents: Meet the llama -- Buying a llama and bringing it home -- Working with llamas and alpacas -- Feeding llamas and alpacas -- Housing llamas and alpacas -- Llamas and alpacas in sickness and in health -- Breeding llamas -- More great llama activities -- Making money with llamas and alpacas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hobby Farm Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.2 WEASummary: With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread-- a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Foreign Babette's 1999Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BABSummary: A gender-bending farce about the owner of a drag-revue nightclub, his high-strung transvestite "companion," and a wedding that defies all odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAGSummary: A historically accurate depiction of one of the most important collaborations in the history of art, that of legendary sculptor Rodin, and the creative prodigy Camille Claudel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAMSummary: Ten years after the tragic events of Jean de Florette, Manon (Jean's daughter) seeks revenge against those she holds responsible for her father's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Renn Productions/Films 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAND'Lacey, Chris
Summary: Michael Malone is assigned to investigate a local comic shop by the mysterious UNICORNE agency because they are displaying a comic book with a disturbingly familiar heroine--but he soon realizes that the sinister shop hides an invisible army come to life,with a menacing maniac at its head, and worse he does not know if he can trust his fellow agents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DLASlader, Erik
Summary: A humourous look at the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union in space exploration known as the Space Race and the innumerable failures that paved the way to the first lunar landing.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Lunchmeataphobia (think! it ain't illegal yet) / Funkadelic -- The Wrong side / Buckweat Zydeco -- Fortune Teller / Benny Spellman -- The Wanderer / Dion -- I'm a hog for you / The Coasters -- Johnny too bad / The Slickers -- Pressure drop / The Maytals -- I sold my heart to the junkman / Patti LaBelle & The Blue Belles -- Evening train / Chuck Leavell -- Crawl part 1 / Willie Mitchell -- Carry...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJTarkington, Booth
Summary: Here are three indispensable works from the Pulitzer Prize-winning laureate of the American heartland, including the novels that inspired a classic film by Orson Welles and an Oscar-nominated performance by Katharine Hepburn. The Magnificent Ambersons depicts the fall from grace of George Minafer, scion of the once-unassailable Amberson family whose wealth and grandeur are in precipitous...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TARSummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Marseille. 1975. Pierre Michel, a young magistrate with a wife and children, has just been transferred to help in the crack-down on organized crime. He decides to take on French Connection, a Mafia-run operation that exports heroin the world over. Paying heed to no one's warnings, he leads a one-man campaign against Mafia kingpin Gaetan Zampa, the most untouchable godfather of them all. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015