Newton, Heather

Summary: Famed puppeteer and master manipulator Walter Gray surprises his three daughters by announcing there is a fourth at his 80th birthday party. An incomplete paternity test, and a will that places a condition on each daughter's inheritance, suggest that the missing daughter isn't a figment of his dementia. Jane, the eldest, is tired of her father's eccentricities. She remembers the scarcity of her...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC NEW

Newman, Heather

Summary: "How could a smarter app make life easier for your friends or family? Great inventors use a process called design thinking to help them identify problems, big and small, and create solutions for them. This book introduces readers to design thinking and asks them to look at apps they already use (the pros and cons of them) in a specific way to figure out how to improve them. Design thinking...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Publishing 2019

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT STEM Inno Newman

Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOL

Summary: Killer-elite commandos out to hijack the USS Missouri's nuclear arsenal overpower the crew, except for the cook, who just happens to be an ex-Navy SEAL and highly decorated combat operative.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE UND

Summary: Under siege: Casey Ryback is a one-man strike force, waging war against hijackers intent on commandeering a battleship's arsenal of nuclear missiles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UND

Summary: Batman begins: After his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred, detective Jim Gordon and his ally Lucius Fox, Bruce returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter-ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and high-tech weaponry to fight evil.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE DAR

Summary: A corporate raider pays a gorgeous hooker to be his escort for a business week in Beverly Hills...and then falls for her. Fifteenth anniversary special edition packed with all-new, never-before-seen bonus features.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2005

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRE

Summary: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty. Told through Ailey's own words and featuring evocative archival footage and interviews...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AIL

Contents: Pedestrian at best / Courtney Barnett -- Bury our friends / Sleater-Kinney -- Restless / New Order -- Soubour / Songhoy Blues -- 20/20 / Gaz Coombes -- Two to Birkenhead / Bill Ryder-Jones -- Last year / Jim O'Rourke -- Down here / John Grant -- Rock & roll is cold / Matthew E. White -- Should have known better / Sufjan Stevens -- Bored in the USA / Father John Misty -- What part of me / Low --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MOJ

Summary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DAN

Summary: Two disc set contains the film version of actor Charles Nelson Reilly's autobiographical one-man stage show, with recollections on his childhood in the Bronx and Connecticut, studying in New York, making it to Broadway, and finally going to Hollywood. The second disc has a 2001 performance of "Save it for the stage," a longer production on which the film is based.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Civilian Pictures 2010

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIF

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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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: A man goes to considerable lengths to avoid being seen. Beckett's first venture into the film medium is a one-character production without dialogue, based on Berkeley's theory Esse est percipi, or "to be is to be perceived."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIL

Summary: "Inspired by the title Dorothea Benton Frank planned for her next book--Reunion Beach--these close friends and colleagues channeled their creativity, admiration, and grief into stories and poems that celebrate this ... woman and her abiding love for the Lowcountry of her native South Carolina--a land of beauty, history, charm, and Gullah magic she ... brought to life in her acclaimed novels"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC REU

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC REU

Summary: Amy and the rest of the Bartlett-Fleming family embrace the future as they continue to heal. As each family member moves forward, they pull together to help each other...ending up stronger than ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV HEA
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEA

Summary: "Season nine of Heartland finds the Bartlett-Fleming clan navigating the new normal as each family member starts an exciting chapter, leaving past hurt and hardships behind. With the idyllic Alberta foothills as their backdrop, this tightknit family knows that any challenge can be met and every struggle can be overcome as long as they have each other"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD He 9

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HEA

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Heartland 2016

Summary: With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAR PG-13

Summary: A dead showman looks down upon the Earth and dreams of his perfect show.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ZIE

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZIE

Summary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWI

Summary: Eleven-year-old Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener is a junior high geek who just wants to be popular. Teased by her classmates and tormented by the school bully, Dawn develops an improbable plan to seduce the star of a high-school garage band.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEL

Summary: An animated musical version of Lewis Carroll's tale about a girl named Alice. Alice follows a White Rabbit through a very small door and enters Wonderland, where she has many unusual adventures.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALI

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALI RATED G

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Al

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4 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALI

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALI