Hughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGSummary: Director Robert J. Flaherty journeyed with his wife, Frances, and their children to the South Seas island of Savai'i to capture on film the exotic lifestyles of the Samoan people. In doing so, they resurrected and dramatized the recently vanished customs and struggles of the people just before modernization permanently altered the cultural landscape of the island. In 1975, nearly 50 years after...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOASummary: "Craft in America is an exploration into the hearts and minds of artisans devoted to a diverse array of mediums -- from furniture making and basket weaving to pottery and metalsmithing. Each episode reveals that craft has earned itself a place within the realm of fine art"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Craft in America, Inc. 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIKSummary: 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: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMESummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRTakahashi, Osamu.
Summary: "By now, Shinji, Rei, and Asuka thought they knew the drill, but they don't know this one - namely, the giant drill coming down from the even more gigantic eight sided ... thingie ... hanging over the streets of the virtual Tokyo-3! Who's behind this new menace - Doctor Akagi, her daughter, or the man who fascinates them both? Heck, who fascinates everyone!"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTakahashi, Osamu.
Summary: A mysterious hack into the MAGI system brings out all the brilliant mothers, after Gendo's public relations scheme ends up arming his employees with baseball bats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTakahashi, Osamu.
Summary: Asuka attends her family reunion that is held at a drunken cherry blossom viewing party, which is embarrassing for her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTezuka, Osamu
Summary: In this fourth volume of the award-winning graphic novel biography, Buddha slowly discovers that his destiny lies in a path not readily available to him. With fellow ascetics Dhepa, who has complete faith in the purifying quality of painful physical ordeals, and Assaji, who can predict everyone's death to the hour, Buddha travels through the kingdom of Magadha into the Forest of Uruvela, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDBrown, Daniel
Summary: Describes the American rowing team's triumphant and unlikely win during the 1936 Olympics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTakahashi, Osamu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTezuka, Osamu
Summary: A story about a biography of Shiddhartha, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDTezuka, Osamu
Summary: "Comics god Osamu Tezuka's darkest work, MW is a chilling picaresque of evil. Steering clear of the supernatural as well as the cuddly designs and slapstick humor that enliven many of Tezuka's better-known works, MW explores a stark modern reality where neither divine nor secular justice seems to prevail. This willfully 'anti-Tezuka' achievement from the master's own pen nevertheless pulsates...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MWSummary: In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes. This gripping 5-part HBO miniseries tells the powerful and visceral story of this event and its aftermath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD CHECopies Available at East Bay
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHETakahashi, Osamu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NEOTashiro, Osamu
Summary: "Japan in the 1500s was torn apart by warring clans. The heroes of the many battles were the samurai who defended lands, conquered foes, and unified the nation. Learn their stories, and explore their armor, weapons, tactics, and more"--Back Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gakken Plus Co., Ltd. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 952 TASTezuka, Osamu
Summary: In the seventh volume of Tezuka's Buddha, Devadatta has become a power-hungry monk. Devadatta plans to wrest control of the emerging Buddhist sect from its founder who daily grows weaker but continues to give sermons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDTezuka, Osamu
Summary: In the sixth volume of Tezuka's Buddha, the devil Mara possess the bandit Ananda, half-brother of Devadatta, in an effort to eliminate the Buddha. Buddha must confront his eternal enemy, Mara, before he can open the eyes of arrogant priests and hardened criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical, Inc. 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUDSummary: The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOUTakahashi, Osamu.
Summary: Shinji, Rei, and Asuka are being trained for combat and must use their weapons to take out a giant gelatinous creature with a spherical core.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Comic Distributors 0000