Close, Chuck
Summary: Presents an autobiography about the author's artistic life, describing the creative processes he uses in the studio and his struggles with his disabilities and providing a mix-and-match self-portrait section that demonstrates his techniques and images.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 759.13 CLOSummary: Paul Hogan is reluctantly thrust back into the spotlight as he desperately attempts to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VERCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VeSummary: 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: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: Monsignor Renard tells the story of the German occupation of France during World War II through the eyes and experiences of a humble and extraordinary priest-- whose beliefs are tested to the breaking point.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONSummary: One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ISLCrack Cloud (Musical group)
Contents: Post Truth (Birth Of A Nation) -- Bastard Basket -- Somethings Gotta Give -- The Next Fix -- Favour Your Fortune -- Ouster Stew -- Tunnel Vision -- Angel Dust (Eternal Peace).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CRASOPHOMORE ENGLISH CLASS, 1959.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1959
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2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 SOPCall number: NEL 977.4 Sophomore
Summary: Centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the Pacific Theater during WWII. The film, based on the real-life events of this heroic feat, tells the story of the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude, and bravery to overcome the odds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Midway 2020Strawberry Alarm Clock (Musical group)
Contents: Incense & peppermints -- Rainy day mushroom pillow -- Birds in my tree -- Sit with the guru -- Tomorrow -- Barefoot in Baltimore -- Birdman of alkatrash -- Strawberries mean love -- Starting out the day.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK STRSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: It explores the fundamental characteristics of myth, reality, ritual, and imagination, and tells the story of C.S. Lewis's intellectual journey into the realm of faith, which began at a meeting with fellow author J.R.R. Tolkien.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TOLSummary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCole, Nat King 1917-1965
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Music Inc. 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM ColeCole, Lee, 1990-
Summary: "A love story set in the foothills of Appalachia about two very different people--Owen, from Kentucky, and Alma, the daughter of Bosnian immigrants--navigating the entanglements of class and identify in an America coming apart at the seams"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MIDSummary: Part of Warner Bros 90th Anniversary. Reunite with Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Daffy Duck and all the Looney tunes gang in an animated assortment of hits that have tickled the funny bones of cartoon lovers for generations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BESSummary: Featuring some of the very earliest, ground-breaking on-screen appearances of many all-time Looney Tunes favorites as well as later cartoons, these fifty-six animated shorts star a range of characters, including Bugs Bunny, the ever-flustered Daffy Duck and eternal straight-man Porky Pig, plus all the rest of the Looney Tunes lineup, spread over four discs. DVD.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOOSummary: Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occuring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MADContents: My little red book / Love -- Beautiful Delilah / Chuck Berry -- Just one look / Doris Troy -- Fearless Mary Lou Lord -- Blue sands / The Chico Hamilton Quintet -- Caught being in love / Anthony Moore -- Arnold Lane / Robyn Hitchcock -- Love, pain & sorrow / Snowy White -- East-west / The Butterfield Blues Band -- Us and them / A Camp -- I loves you, Porgy / Miles Davis -- The piper at the gates...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1980
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJWatson, William Henry
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Conference 1961
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 280.4 Watson Vol. 2Summary: 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
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BDavis, Miles
Contents: Hackensack ; 'Round midnight ; Now's the time (Zoot Sims, tenor saxophone; Gerry Mulligan, baritone saxophone; Thelonious Monk, piano; Percy Heath, bass; Connie Kay, drums) (recorded July 17, 1955, Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI) -- Ah-leu-cha ; Straight, no chaser ; Fran-dance ; Two bass hit ; Bye bye blackbird ; The theme (Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophone; John Coltrane, tenor...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015