Carlos, John Wesley.

Summary: "Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith's Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history and the Black Power movement.Here is the remarkable story of one of the men behind the salute, lifelong activist John Carlos"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2011

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Summary: Before he was King of the Jungle, Tarzan was an awkward young kid just trying to fit in. When one of his missteps puts his family in jeopardy, Tarzan decides they would be better off without him. Along his new journey he must come face to face with the mysterious Zugor, the most powerful force in the land. Together, Tarzan and Zugor discover that being different is not a weakness and that...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005

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Summary: "The public enemy": A young hoodlum rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, even as a gangster's accidental death threatens to spark a bloody mob war. "White heat": A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. Shortly after the plan takes place, events take a crazy turn. "Angels with dirty...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016

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Summary: The Mule: Earl Stone is a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. Even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Based on a true story, Charles S. Gilpin was the first African-American to star in a leading role in a stage play during a time where roles of color were previously played by white men in blackface. As Gilpin rose to fame and recognition, tensions were high between him and playwright Eugene O'Neill which ultimately lead to parting ways, though his acclaimed performance has changed Broadway...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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Summary: Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara and Christian Troy have vowed to make whole the victims of the elusive, mysterious serial slasher called the Carver. But mending the rifts in their own families and careers will require much more than their famed technical skills. The two perform a daring facial transplant to a 650-pound woman whose skin has fused with her sofa. Dr. Quentin Costa is the new doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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Summary: Beauty parlor (1932): A look at the lives of two beauticians as they struggle to survive life in the big city.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Fistful of dollars: an anonymous but deadly sharpshooter rides into a lawless Mexican border town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojos. 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: 2014

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Contents: Match box blues (Larry Hensley) -- Black snake moan (Cobb & Underwood) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Green) -- Franklin County blues (Dixie Ramblers) -- Blue grass twist ; Bibb County grind (South Georgia Highballers) -- Barber's blues ; Dust pan blues (Frankie Marvin) -- I'm blue and lonesome (Gene Autry & Frankie Marvin) -- Do right daddy blues ; Black bottom blues ; The rheumatism blues ;...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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Watley, Jody.

Contents: Looking for a new love -- Still a thrill -- Some kind of lover --For the girls -- Love injection -- Don't you want me -- Do it to the beat --Most of all -- Learn to say no (with George Michael) -- Looking for a new love (Extended club version).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Records 1987

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Summary: During a tough economy, beautiful people elect not to have plastic surgery. So don't expect McNamara/Troy to reject any cash-flow opportunities, no matter how dicey. Maybe the docs will need to think about the state's request to lipo a morbidly obese Death Row inmate so he can be executed. Matt sets out to earn coin at the beach as a mime; Kimber laments the decline of her line of sex toys.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

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Summary: The story of a young girl who had to go into hiding during World War II for being different. Anne Frank's diary manages to create a truthful and timeless picture of domestic life in all its pettiness and normalcy, while never letting us forget the extraordinary threat of death that awaits the characters if they are discovered. This is the first authorized film based on actual entries of the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA 2009

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Watley, Jody.

Contents: Real love (4:23) -- Friends (4:30) -- Everything (4:15) -- What 'cha gonna do for me (4:12) -- L.O.V.E.R. (4:49) -- For love's sake (5:26) -- Lifestyle (4:14) -- Precious love (4:45) -- Something new (4:20) -- Once you leave (4:01) -- Come into my life (5:31) -- Only you (3:53) -- Real love (extended version) (7:40).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1989

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Summary: Looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood failure), and a crucially important independent filmmaker. Orson Welles's life was magical: a musical prodigy at age ten, a director of Shakespeare at fourteen, a painter at sixteen, a star of stage and radio at twenty, romances...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Wessel, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2002

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Summary: Rossini's adaptation of the classic Cinderella story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2010

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Emsley, John.

Summary: Emsley describes chemicals which affect every aspect of our daily lives, including anecdotes about their proper or improper uses.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1998

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Emsley, John.

Summary: The science behind alpha-hydroxy acids, chlorine bleach, and other chemicals that people use every day is explored in a fascinating study that examines, through amusing anecdotes and odd facts, if and how they work. What is the secret of shower cleaners? How does the dangerous explosive nitroglycerin ward off heart attacks? And what medicines, usually prescribed for other purposes, are said to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2004

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Summary: In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

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