Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRASummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLDylan, 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: An eclectic group of artists performed selections from the Bob Dylan songbook on October 16, 1992 at Madison Square Garden in New York City to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dylan's debut album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Records 2014
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BOBSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Tipsy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC TIPSummary: Aron Ralston has a passion for all things outdoors. But when a falling boulder traps him in a remote Utah canyon, a thrill-seeker's adventure becomes the challenge of a lifetime. Over the next five days, Ralston embarks on a remarkable personal journey in which he relies on the memories of family and friends as well as his own courage and ingenuity to turn adversity into triumph.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Searchlight Pictures 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 127 RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONESummary: In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow crevasse, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. He had gone to Bluejohn Canyon, Utah for a rock-climbing weekend alone. Not telling anyone where he was going and finding himself stuck, he knows he can't expect anyone to come to his rescue. As a trained engineer and a skilled, albeit somewhat...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray 127Summary: After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a thirteen-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed father, meets a woman with a secret who will force her to use her wits, strengths, and biohacking abilities to fight for the possibility of having a future.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A satirical interpretation of the biography of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GRECarman
Contents: Disc 1. Heart of a champion -- Jesus period -- Prayer -- Great God -- A witch's invitation -- Who's in the house -- The river -- Holdin' on -- My story -- Jericho, the shout of victory -- I feel Jesus -- Now's the time -- Legendary mission -- Mission 3:16 -- America again.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow Records 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Retells animal stories from around the world, including "Brer Rabbit and the Well," "Puss in Boots," and "The Hungry Hyena."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Barron's 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Carman
Contents: I got the joy (4:29) -- Sunday's on the way (6:17) -- Revive us, oh Lord (3:46) -- Lazarus come forth (6:24) -- Soap song (1:52) -- Lord of all (4:05) -- Revival in the land (6:29) -- God's got an army (4:27) -- No way, we are not ashamed (4:16) -- Radically saved (2:30) -- This blood -- Fear not my child (5:29) -- Celebrating Jesus (4:17) -- The champion (6:53) -- Serve the Lord (5:13).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sparrow 1993
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Contains the entire third season of the television program "House" in which the controversial Dr. Gregory House and his team diagnose and treat mysterious illnesses. Includes special features.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager missions as a way of exploring the solar system's outermost planets, capturing images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and their moons. "The farthest" documents Voyager's journey, including first-hand accounts of the men and women who built the ships and guided their missions. Bonus film "Second genesis" explores the scientific quest to find life, or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 919.9 FARTopol
Summary: Tevye the milkman struggles to raise five daughters as observant Jews in the rapidly changing society of pre-revolutionary Ukraine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FIDSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GREChatman, Vernon
Summary: Variety show that spoofs childrens' programs using puppets, animation, and children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WONSummary: Joining the Outlaw's fight against injustice is mysterious Brother Tuck and a feisty Locksley girl, Kate. Robin leads the battle for a free world, but it's tough when corruption and evil sweep the land. The King is absent fighting in the Holy Land and while his throne is empty, his treacherous brother Prince John plots to seize it. The prince has his eye on Nottingham for his new capital and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ROBSummary: Miss Marple solves mysteries set against a rich background of grand English estates, gorgeous scenery, and post-WWII period detail. The mirror crack'd from side to side: Hollywood star Marina Gregg has moved into Gossington Hall. When Marina and her dashing young husband host a party for the village, a garrulous fan drops dead after drinking a poisoned cocktail. The secrets of Chimneys: Miss...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Daniel attends a family reunion with his parents, he discovers a world he hardly knew existed. Seduced by the allure of his new world, Daniel adopts the role of go-between for his glamorous Aunt Alice and his cousins Rebecca and Charles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALMCharman, Katrina
Summary: A parakeet, a rhinoceros, and a tiger must team up to survive the catastrophic eruption of Krakatoa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACharman, Katrina
Summary: "A stowaway dog and the captain's cat forge an unlikely friendship as they race to protect three kittens, help their humans, and survive the sinking of the Titanic."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CHASummary: When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018