Namkhai Norbu

Contents: The practice of Chöd -- The long life practice of Mandarava -- The song of the vajra.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Amiata 1993

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Fox, Jennifer

Summary: Recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual teacher, Western-born Yeshi struggles to maintain a normal family life while his father, a Buddhist teacher, tries to convince him to embrace his cultural heritage and destiny as a leader of the Tibetan people.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2012

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Summary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016

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Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010

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Various artists

Contents: Let's get it started / the Black Eyed Peas -- Here we go again / Ray Charles with Norah Jones -- American idiot / Green Day -- Heaven / Los Lonely Boys -- If I ain't got you / Alicia Keys -- Burn / Usher -- Through the wire / Kanye West -- She will be loved / Maroon 5 -- You had me / Joss Stone -- Redneck woman / Gretchen Wilson -- The first cut is the deepest / Sheryl Crow -- Sunrise / Norah...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Grammy Recordings 2005

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L'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

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Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2005

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Summary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004

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Rich, Buddy

Summary: Buddy Rich highlights the relentless power and unparalleled artistry of the man who was known as "The World's Greatest Drummer."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Reelin' in the Years Productions 2006

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Summary: Obsessed scientist Chris Cooper invents Gleemonex, a happiness drug. Soon everybody is taking the little orange pill. But then Cooper discovers that early test subjects have slipped into comas. Can he stop the people's habit before it's too late?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2013

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Jamyang Norbu.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 1999

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Thinley Norbu.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2008

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Presley, Elvis 1935-1977

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1993

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Summary: 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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Summary: Actual film record of the expedition (April 28, 1947 thru August 7, 1947) photographed by those 5 men who lived its great adventure of traveling 4300 miles, on a raft, across the ocean from Peru to Polynesia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Associates 1997

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Brady, Tim

Summary: General Omar Bradley said of him, "I have never known a braver man or a more devoted soldier." But for much of his life, Theodore Roosevelt's son Ted seemed born to live in his father's shadow. With the same wide smile, winning charm, and vigorous demeanor, Ted possessed limitless potential, with even the White House within his reach. In the First World War, Ted braved gunfire and gas attacks...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017

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Summary: This PBS miniseries tells the epic history of oil ... how it has dominated global politics, shaken the world economy, and transformed our century.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001

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Summary: "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.).

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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Summary: Germany, 1936. Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters. He lives a life of cards, booze, and women. Suddenly his luck runs dry when he is arrested by Superintendent Friedrich Herzog. He is immediately thrown into the Mauthausen concentration camp. There, Salomon exhibits exceptional skills and is soon transferred to the upgraded camp of Sachsenhausen. Upon his arrival, he once...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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NRBQ

Contents: Introduction number 3 (from the book of introductions)/Don't she look good (3:11) -- Tennessee (3:08) -- Let's make love (1:37) -- Yes, yes, yes (2:56) -- Crazy like a fox (3:45) -- Little floater (3:34) -- I got a rocket in my pocket (4:51) -- Pretty thing (2:47) -- What a nice way to go (4:06) -- Mule in the corn (2:48) -- Christmas time is here (3:23) -- Our day will come (2:51) -- 11 bar...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Plate Music 2002

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