Summary: They were the most legendary and respected politicians, statesmen and warriors of history's first republic since the days of ancient Rome. They were also traitors and smugglers, rabble rousers and hot-heads, unfaithful husbands and prodigious drinkers. Our "Founding Fathers" were, in fact, human beings. Gain a fascinating glimpse behind the images on the marble busts and faces on our dollar...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2000
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Summary: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton, Mifflin and company 1883
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 EMESummary: 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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLIGenco, James G. (James Gordon)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: R. Russell-Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.774 GENSummary: 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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Contents: Sunday morning (Michael Stipe) -- I'm waiting for the man (Matt Berninger) -- Femme fatale (Sharon van Elten) -- Venus in furs (Andrew Bird, Lucius) -- Run run run (Kurt Vile) -- All tomorrow's parties (St. Vincent, Thomas Bartlett) -- Heroin (Thurston Moore, Bobby Gillespie) -- There she goes again (King Princess) -- I'll be your mirror (Courtney Barnett) -- The black angel's death song...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK I'LSummary: This series covers America's history from the age of Pre-Columbian Native Americans, through European discovery, colonization, independence, the forging of a young nation, and the settling of the American frontier. Students will look at the history of the United States from a new perspective, as they explore the events that have shaped modern American society. Professor Linwood Thompson is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1996
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973 EAR3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 973 EAR PART 1
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Thomas, Richard 1943-
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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Summary: With bombs bursting overhead, a tattered flag flying ... Joined by two cartoon flies and their factual narrative infused with kid-friendly fun, readers go above deck with Francis Scott Key and witness the birth of the U.S. national anthem during the War of 1812.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.5 TROBarnett, Thomas P. M.
Contents: Preface: The shape of things to come -- The seven deadly sins of Bush-Cheney -- A twelve-step recovery program for American grand strategy -- The American trajectory: of great men and great powers -- The economic realignment: racing to the bottom of the pyramid -- The diplomatic realignment: rebranding the team of rivals -- The security realignment: rediscovering diplomacy, defense, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.93 BARThird Day (Christian rock group : 1991- )
Contents: Get on / Third Day -- Draw me close / Michael W. Smith -- Disappear / Jars of Clay -- Oh Lord your love / Caedman's Call -- Watching over me / FFH -- Mountain of God / Mac Powell -- All for the life of me / Kathy Troccoli -- These days / By the Tree -- You are holy / True Vibe -- Everything under the sun / Bebo Norman -- Surrender / Joy Williams -- Tonight / LaRue -- Let love grow / Paul Colman...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Provident Music Distribution 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ABO1982
Contents: 07:56 -- 06:19 -- 06:37 -- 07:00 -- 04:03 -- 04:45 -- 04:09
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hubro Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ NINSummary: Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MeSummary: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Victoria 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Vi 3Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD VICNewman, Thomas
Contents: Rock Island, 1931 -- Wake -- Just the feller -- Mr. Rance -- Bit borrowers -- Murder (in four parts) -- Road to Chicago -- Reading room -- Someday sweetheart / Benjamin Spikes, John Spikes -- Meet Maguire -- Blood dog -- Finn McGovern -- The farm -- Dirty money -- Rain hammers -- A blind eye -- Nothing to trade -- Queer notions / Coleman Hawkins -- Virgin Mary -- Shoot the dead -- Grave drive...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ROASummary: Amidst the adventure, hardships, and excitement of her teenage years on the Dakota prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder puts pen to paper and begins to document her extraordinary life. Laura matures from young girl to woman, making sacrifices to help her family survive. She also meets her loving husband, Almanzo Wilder, and together with their daughter, Rose, they set off on their own pioneer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS Paramount Network Television 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BSummary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXISummary: 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: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCAlbinoni, Tomaso.
Contents: Adagio in G minor -- Concerto in B flat, op. 7 no. 3 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 5 -- Concerto in D major, op. 7 no. 6 -- Concerto in G major -- Concerto in F major, op. 7 no. 9 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 11 -- Concerto in C major, op. 7 no. 12 -- Concerto a 5 in D minor, op. 9 no. 2.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ALBSummary: A rediscovered treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith's Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying, brash Oakland art student Pica attempts to preserve their existence in Polaroid snapshots, along the way forging a friendship with a woman in an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYL'Amour, Louis 1908-1988
Summary: Wilderness explorer Jubal Sackett was the son of Barnabas Sackett, the first of that line to come to the New World. Jubal feared no man, nor did he back away from any challenge. His determination to blaze new trails took him across the vast savage North American continent where no white man had been before. Living and fighting among the Indian tribes, Jubal forged a legend as a powerful...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007