Ward-Perkins, J. B. (John Bryan)
Summary: Here in 450 plates--50 in full color--is the life and art of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae, the ancient Roman towns buried by a catastrophic eruption of Vesuvius for more than sixteen centuries until their discovery and excavation. This volume brings together more than 300 murals, sculptures, and artifacts recovered from the ashes and ultimately housed in the National Archaeological Museum...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1978
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 937.7 WARSummary: 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: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLSummary: Reap the wild wind: Two sailors battle pirates and compete for the affections of a Southern belle in 1840s Key West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie John 2007Otis, Johnny
Contents: Harlem nocturne (3:09) -- Jimmy's round the clock (3:10) -- My baby's business (3:02) -- Preston Love's mansion (3:03) -- Midnight in the barrelhouse (3:04) -- Boogie guitar (2:33) -- Ain't nothin shakin (2:27) -- Hangover blues (2:52) -- Get together blues (2:36) -- I'm not falling in love with you (2:39) -- If it's so baby (3:04) -- Our romance is gone (2:34) -- If I didn't love you so (3:10)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Savoy Jazz 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES OTIDylan, Bob
Contents: Disc One. Like a rolling stone (John Mellencamp) -- Leopard-skin pill-box hat (John Mellencamp) -- Introduction (Kris Kristofferson) -- Blowin' in the wind (Stevie Wonder) -- Foot of pride (Lou Reed) -- Masters of war (Eddie Vedder ; Mike McCready) -- The times they are a-changin' (Tracy Chapman) -- It ain't me, babe (June Carter Cash ; Johnny Cash) -- What was it you wanted (Willie Nelson) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment 1993
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DYLSummary: In a desert zone in California, a civilian tribunal sentences groups of dissidents and gives them the option of participating in law enforcement exercises in the Bear Montain National Punishment Park. Now these prisoners have to fight for their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PUN112
Contents: Anywhere (Remix) [Without Rap] (4:41) -- Anywhere (4:04) -- Anywhere (feat. Shyne & Lil' Z) [Remix] (With Rap) (5:40) -- Only You (feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & Mase) [Bad Boy Remix] (4:51).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Atlantic 1999
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Summary: This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land, paying special attention to the ragged survivors of Nazi death camps on board the vessel Exodus,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Exodus 2002Summary: A Harvard graduate, turned federal Marshal in Wyoming, learns of a government sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN MICCash, Johnny
Summary: The Essential Johnny Cash was issued to commemorate Cash's 70th birthday. All of his very biggest hits are here in this 2-disc, 36 track collection.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL COUNTRY CASBergman, Ingrid
Summary: Collection of 5 newly restored films of Ingmar Bergman and a bonus disc of "never-before-seen materials."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INGL'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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LAMContents: Think / Shirley Scott (8:01) -- Twist city / Johnny Griffin (5:23) -- How long blues / Ray Charles, Milt Jackson (9:12) -- Comin' home baby / Herbie Mann (8:35) -- Russell and Eliot / Yusef Lateef (4:48) -- Listen here / Eddie Harris (7:37) -- With these hands / Les McCann (5:35) -- Compared to what / Les McCann, Eddie Harris (8:50) -- You're the one / Hank Crawford (4:20) --Jive Samba / Nat...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Jazz 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES ATLSummary: Collects four classic horror films, including "House of Wax," in which a wax sculptor devises a murderous plan to restock his museum; "The Haunting," in which four individuals travel to a haunted house to study its supernatural phenomena; "Freaks," featuring a group of carnival performers who inflict revenge on a trapeze artist who mocks them; and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," the classic tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Five classic films that offer a rare glimpse at a lost era of provocative filmmaking.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
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 AFRSpyri, Johanna
Summary: A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SPYContents: disc 1. You upset me baby (B.B. King) -- Midnight in the Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete "Guitar" Lewis) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- Cotton crop blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare) -- Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton) -- Rock me (Muddy Waters) -- The stumble (Freddy King) -- All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Chicken-hearted woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage/Future Noise Music 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SCRContents: Disc 1. (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay ; Sweet Lorene (Otis Redding). I thank you ; Wrap it up (Sam & Dave). Don't pass your judgement ; I wanna be (your lover & your honey) (The Memphis Nomads). I was born to love you ; I'm so glad you're back (Shirley Walton). Lovey dovey ; New Year's resolution (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas). I got a sure thing ; Girl, you have my heart singing (Ollie & the...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES STASummary: June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality; fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHULewis, John
Summary: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 LEWCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B LEWIS LEWPatterson, 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