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Blackjack (Game) Confederate States of America History Drama Detective and mystery plays Families Families Confederate States of America Drama Families United States Drama Friendship Confederate States of America Drama Operas United States United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 DramaStanford, Phil
Summary: Portland, Oregon, in the 1970s. Portland is often called the Rose City, but the denizens that inhabit its underbelly rarely smell so sweet. Dirty cops, dirty robbers. These shady characters and their illicit connections reveal the boiling corruption in Phil Stanford's true crime stories. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Welcome to the City of Roses. Dark Horse is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse 2014
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Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: In the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Frances Perkins as US Secretary of Labor, the first woman to sit on a presidential cabinet. Against overwhelming odds, she became a driving force behind the New Deal social safety net, including Social Security, the 40-hour workweek, the 8-hour day, minimum wage, and unemployment compensation. Featuring compelling interviews...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SUMSummary: It's November of 1962, and Bruce Reynolds is gathering a group of men together with the intent of robbing a Royal Mail train bound for London from Glasgow. The gang holds a practice robbery in the London Heathrow Airport to see if they're ready, and then, on August 8, 1963, they rob the train of over Đ2.6 million. Six of Scotland Yard's finest police officers are called in to investigate the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GRESummary: Two families, the Hazards and the Mains, are geographically and ideologically separated by the U.S. Civil War. The hatred, prejudice, and greed that tear at the fabric of a nation also threaten to destroy the threads that have woven the lives of these two families together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Patrick Jane is a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis to help the California Bureau of Investigation. These talents make him appear psychically gifted and help him bring killers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles synthesized the possibilities of sound-era filmmaking into what could be called the first truly modern movie. In telling the story of the meteoric rise and precipitous fall of a William Randolph Hearst-like newspaper magnate named Charles Foster Kane, Welles not only created the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA CITSummary: Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STA RATED RSummary: "This haunting silent thriller tells the tale of a mysterious young man (matinee idol Ivor Novello) who takes up residence at a London boardinghouse just as a killer known as the Avenger descends upon the city, preying on blonde women. The film is animated by the palpable energy of a young stylist at play, decisively establishing the director's formal and thematic obsessions."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY LODHayes, Neil
Summary: Based on exhaustive reporting and interviews, "The Last Putt" tells the story of an epic rivalry that encapsulated the changing face of golf. On one side was Oklahoma State, and on the other side was the Stanford Cardinal--with a freshman named Tiger Woods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 HAYSummary: This saga follows two families - the Hazards, from the North, and the Mains, from the South - through their changing fortunes at home and the harsh realities of the battlefields. When the South surrenders at the end of the Civil War, the families are reunited once again in friendship. In the final installment, the two families continue through Post-Civil War Reconstruction into pioneer Indian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD NORStanford, Peter
Summary: Pilgrimage, a global ritual embraced by all faiths, is one of the most enduring traits in our human story. In this compelling history Peter Stanford reflects on the reasons people have walked along the same sacred paths across the ages. How do the experiences of the first pilgrims to Jerusalem, Mecca and Santiago de Compostela compare to the millions of people who embark upon life-changing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thames and Hudson 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 203.51 STATony Stanford
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Publisher / Publication Date: Leo Feist 1901
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWong, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Yee Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.42 WONWong, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pi Yee Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.42 WONDiehl, Stanford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longstreet Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIEStanford, Claire
Summary: "Four years into work on a still-unfinished philosophy dissertation, and seemingly unready to accept a marriage proposal from her long-term boyfriend, Evelyn Kominsky Kumamoto feels stalled. Meanwhile, all around her, everyone else seems to be getting on with their lives: her corn-fed, relentlessly optimistic boyfriend, Jamie, has no hesitation about committing to a shared future, and even her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAStanford, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 262.13 STABritten, Benjamin
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O BRIPaul, Rand.
Summary: The U.S. Senator from Kentucky defends his assertion that the government is out of control and running amok through thousands of regulations that serve as a source of unconstitutional abuse of the good, honest, tax-paying citizens of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 353.4 PAUStanford, Peter
Summary: "Evil - disturbing, inexplicable, deeply rooted - persists. Inching toward the millennium, we speak of the Devil once again: in tabloid accounts of cults, in popular novels, and even in scholarly theological works. We are back where we began 2,000 years ago: going to the Devil." "Now, in this informed, lucid, and very readable biography, Peter Stanford introduces us to this figure of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt 1996