Dollo, Xavier
Summary: Who is considered the world's first science fiction author? How did American science fiction begin? What sci-fi novel is the all-time best-seller? What were the "Pulps" and how did they predict with uncanny accuracy the 21st century world around us? The answers are here, along with detailed chapters dedicated to the founders of the genre and their modern-day successors. Discover the origins of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Humanoids, Inc. 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRIObel, Agnes
Contents: The evil theme (Henry Mancini) -- Moonbird (Roger Webb) -- Eden's Island (Eden Ahbez) -- The night's (Lee Hazelwood) -- Ay ay ay ay (Angle-lala) (Nora Dean) -- Great mission (Yello) -- Aleluia (Tamba Trio, Quarteto em Cy) -- Bloody shadows from a distance (Lena Platonos) -- I go to sleep (Ray Davies) -- Piano quintet, V (Alfred Schnittke) -- Stretch your eyes (Ambient Acapella) (Agnes Obel) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Late Night Tales 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OBEBaier, Molly J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lost Coast Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 BAISummary: High plains drifter: When "The Stranger" rides into the sin-ridden town of Lago, bullets fly as he battles three ruthless gunmen in a pulse-pounding shoot-'em-up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLISummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. Towards zero: Eyebrows arch when the dashing Wimbledon tennis star Nevile Strange arrives with his attractive new wife, even though the first wife is also attending. Miss Marple observes the tightly wound group as they holiday by the sea, sensing the sexual tensions and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ponette is a sad little girl. She has survived a car crash that killed her mother and left her with a broken arm. Her father takes to live with an aunt, who has two children roughly her age, explaining to his tearful, disbelieving daughter that her mother is not coming back. Not understanding the finality of death in an adult way, Ponette wonders why if Jesus gets to rise from the dead, why...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PONSummary: Three grown sisters, Maribel, Leticia and Carmen try to cope and live with the fact that their father Martin, a veteran chef is losing his sense of taste. Martin has one simple rule: be at home for Sunday dinner and attendance is both mandatory and non-negotiable. A rift in the family develops when the sisters develop relationships and an obnoxious woman sets her sights on Martin's affections.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Samuel Goldwyn Films, LLC 2001
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Summary: Fernando, a respected university professor, and Lili, his devoted wife, have lived happily together in Buenos Aires for many years. Without warning, they find their comfortable life threatened when Fernando is forced into early retirement as a result of Argentina's economic crisis. Facing an uncertain future, the couple relocates to the countryside where they bravely set out on a new chapter of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: A decade after the death of an American TV star, a young actor reminisces the written correspondence he once shared with the former, as well as the impact those letters had on both their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD DEASummary: A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RINSummary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEYSummary: Boy Erased tells the courageous story of Jared Eamons, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, who must overcome the fallout of being outed to his parents. His parents struggle with reconciling their love for their son with their beliefs. Fearing a loss of family, friends, and community, Jared is pressured into attending a conversion therapy program. While there, Jared comes into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYDapier, Jarrett
Summary: After lunch at a very crowded jazz cafe, a boy and his Auntie Nina are inspired to create a feast of their own with such treats as Thelonious Monk Fish and Nat King Cole Slaw.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAPSummary: A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive fifteen year old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable menage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOMSummary: A celebrated literary scholar, seemingly happily married, embarks on an affair with a gorgeous stewardess, who is captivated by his charm and reputation. As their romance gets serious, the film grows anxious, leading to a wallop of a conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: the Criterion Collection 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOFGregson-Williams, Harry.
Contents: Prince Caspian flees ; The kings and queens of old ; Journey to the how ; Arrival at Aslan's how ; Raid on the castle ; Miraz crowned ; Sorcery and sudden vengeance ; The duel ; The armies assemble ; Battle at Aslan's how ; Return of the lion ; The door in the air / Harry Gregson-Williams -- The call (Regina Spektor) -- A dance 'round the memory tree (Oren Lavie) -- This is home (Switchfoot) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Diplo
Summary: DJ Diplo lends his eclectic ear and considerable talents to a guided tour through classic tracks from the Greensleeves reggae catalogue.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: VP Music Group 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DIPDilly Dally (Musical group)
Contents: I feel free -- Doom -- Believe -- Sober motel -- Sorry ur mad -- Marijuana -- Pretty cold -- Bad biology -- Heaven.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Partisan Records 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DILPolvo
Contents: Total immersion -- Blues is loss -- Light, raking -- Changed -- The water wheel -- Old maps -- Some songs -- Anchoress.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POLSummary: 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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN CLILecouturier, Xavier
Contents: Aube (5:00) -- Tempest (7:24) -- Carrier (5:49) -- Striations (6:04) -- Waiting (7:27) -- Level up (6:17) -- Event horizon (5:43) -- Monk derivative (6:09) -- Kindling (6:23) -- Guitar hero (5:57).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LECSummary: Perseus braves the treacherous underworld to rescue his father, Zeus, captured by his son, Ares, and brother Hades who unleash the ancient Titans upon the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRAStanley, Ralph.
Contents: Ridin' that midnight train (with Iris DeMent) -- Will you miss me (with Pam Tillis) -- Little Willie (with Patty Mitchell) -- Oh, death (with Gillian Welch) -- Loving you too well (with Dolly Parton) -- The memory of your smile (with Maria Muldaur) -- Are you tired of me, darling (with Sara Evans) -- Weeping willow (with Joan Baez) -- I'll never grow tired of you (with Kristi Stanley) -- Rank...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rebel 2001