Miller, Walter M.
Summary: Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: "Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels--bring home for Emma." To the Brothers of Saint Leibowitz, this sacred shopping list penned by an obscure, 20th-century engineer is a symbol of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gregg Press 1975
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MILSummary: In the small town of Dillon, Texas, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game and the charismatic football players, their new coach Eric Taylor, and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD FRISummary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MILHaller, Robert
Summary: Vacation Bible School got a little out of hand this year. Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality and into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from New York City, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALFaller, Régis.
Summary: Polo the dog sets out from his home and enjoys many adventures, including sailing his boat on top of a whale, roasting hot dogs over a volcano, and taking a ride in a spaceship built from a mushroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALSummary: Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MILSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros. Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: "Meet the Sweathogs. They're the rowdiest, goofiest bunch of students to ever step foot inside a high school. But if they think they're too unruly for a good teacher to handle, they're in for a rude awakening when they meet Mr. Kotter -- a former Sweathog who's returned to his alma mater to shape the minds of these remedial students as their new teacher! With the hilarious talents of comedian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WELFaller, Regis
Summary: While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC FalleSummary: "In 1903, in Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures."-- IMDb
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WARSummary: Set in the early 20th century, this classic family comedy follows the efforts of a husband and wife as they try to maintain control in a home with 12 children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHEFilter (Musical group)
Contents: You walk away -- American cliché -- Where do we go from here -- Columind -- The missing -- The only way (is the wrong way) -- My long walk to jail -- So I quit -- God damn me -- It can never be the same -- World today -- The 4th.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FILHaller, Mary Cathryn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rainbow Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.9 HalleSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUFilter (Musical group)
Contents: Hey man nice shot -- Dose -- Under -- Spent -- Take another -- Stuck in here -- It's over -- Gerbil -- White like that -- Consider this -- So cool.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FILFilter (Musical group)
Contents: Sand -- Welcome to the fold -- Captain Bligh -- It's gonna kill me -- The best things -- Take a picture -- Skinny -- I will lead you -- Cancer -- I'm not the only one.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Reprise 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FILSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOGiller, Robert M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Down at Jasper's bar-b-que (Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon) (2:46) -- Who did you give my barbecue to? Part 1 (Big Boy Teddy Edwards) (2:59) -- Pig meat on the line (Memphis Minnie) (2:33) -- Pork chop blues (The Two Charlies) (2:57) -- Barbecue bust (Mississippi Jook Band) (2:35) -- I crave my pig meat (Blind Boy Fuller) (2:44) -- Barbecue blues (Barbecue Bob) (3:11) -- Pepper sauce mama (Charlie...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES BARCisler, Walker L. (Walker Lee)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Newcomen Society in North America 1967
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI 624.55 CislerMillen, C. M.
Summary: After the shearer removes the winter coat from the sheep, the spinner, weaver, and knitter, each in turn, do their part to produce the wool sweater.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MILContents: Bottleneck blues (Weaver & Beasley) (2:51) -- Untitled (Barbecue Bob) (3:07) -- God don't never change (2:57) ; Dark was the night (Blind Willie Johnson) (3:18) -- St. Louis blues (Weaver & Beasley) (2:44) -- Experience blues (Ruth Willis, Blind Willie McTell) (3:09) -- Guitar rag (Sylvester Weaver) (2:58) -- You can't get that stuff no more (Tampa Red) (2:55) -- High sheriff blues (Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1990
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Place a hold to request this item.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"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004