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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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: "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: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANACharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: All I want to do (with Angie Stone) -- You are my sunshine (with Chris Isaak) -- It all goes by so fast (with Mary J. Blige) -- You were there (with Gladys Knight) -- Imagine (with Ruben Studdard & The Harlem Gospel Singers) -- Compared to what (with Leela James) -- Big bad love (with Diana Ross) -- I will be there (with Idina Menzel) -- Blame it on the sun (with George Michael) -- Touch (with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHASummary: The protagonist of this metaphysical fable is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LEGSummary: In the wake of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes, five lethal experts are assembled by the Israeli intelligence agency to execute eleven known terrorists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Platinum Disc 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sword 2003Parker, Gilbert
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Co. 1903
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3714 ParkerPonting, Herbert George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 PONTarshis, Lauren
Summary: Historical fiction. When disaster strikes, heroes are made. New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in the thrilling I SURVIVED series In this collection, witness unforgettable kids who, against all odds, survived sinking ships, shark attacks, the most destructive hurricane to hit North America, and the bombing that launched...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TARAlberti, Rafael
Summary: A bilingual anthology by a Spanish poet, illustrated with paintings that inspired it. In the poem, Botticelli, accompanied by the painting, The Birth of Venus, he writes: "Upon the sea / all is curling witchery, / twirling curl / & rippling wave, / a geometric order / carried to the border / by uncooling winds that shower bird & flower."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALBSummary: "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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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMECharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: I got a woman 2:50. -- Greenbacks 2:48. -- Come back baby 3:04. -- A fool for you 3:00. -- This little girl of mine 2:30. -- Hard times 2:53. -- A bit of soul 2:17. -- Mary Ann 2:45. -- Drown in my own tears 3:19. -- Hallelujah I love her so 2:34. -- What would I do without you 2:34. -- Lonely Avenue 2:33. -- I want to know 2:09. -- Leave my woman alone 2:38. -- It's alright 2:15. -- Ain't that...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHACharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: From the heart 3:30. -- I've got news for you 4:28. -- Moanin' 3:14. -- Let's go 2:39. -- One mint julep 3:02. -- I'm gonna move to the outskirts of town 3:38. -- Stompin' room only 3:35. -- Mister C 4:28. -- Strike up the band 2:35. -- Birth of the blues 5:05. -- Plus 3 from Genius hits the road. -- Alabamy bound 1:35. -- Basin Street Blues 2:45. -- New York's my home 2:04.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: DunhillCompact Classics 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHACharles, Ray 1930-2005.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHASummary: Discusses how the USA PATRIOT Act has taken away checks on law enforcement and continues to endanger the civil liberties of all Americans under the guise of being part of the war on terrorism, and how paranoia, fear and racial profiling have led to gross infringements on freedom and democracy without strengthening national security.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCVon Tilzer, Albert.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Music Corp. 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMPatterson, James
Summary: A biographical novel tells the story of Cassius Clay, the determined boy who would one day become Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers of all time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PATSummary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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 ESSPedersen, Aaron
Summary: An Australian indigenous detective returns home to the outback to investigate the disappearance of two young boys from a remote cattle ranch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSZolotow, Charlotte
Summary: A little girl goes for a walk with her mother on a windy autumn day and waits for her mother to "say it" in exactly the way she wanted to hear.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Zolotow 2015Summary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: A German army deserter finds an abandoned Nazi captain's uniform in the final weeks of World War II. Emboldened by the authority the uniform grants him, he amasses a band of stragglers who cede to his command despite the suspicions of some. Citing direct orders from the Fuhrer himself, he soon takes command of a camp holding German soldiers accused of desertion and begins to dispense harsh...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2018