SOPHOMORE ENGLISH CLASS, 1959.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1959
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2 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4 SOPCall number: NEL 977.4 Sophomore
Summary: In the small Texas town of Rio Bravo, law and order is maintained by three unlikely enforcers: hard-boiled sheriff Chance; former quick draw artist Dude, now gone drunk and disheveled; and the crippled, wisecracking Stumpy, who patrols the jail with a shotgun. The arrest and incarceration of Joe Burdette for murder has set these three at odds with his brother, corrupt and wealthy landowner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Pictures 2007
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN RIOJudson, Clara Ingram 1879-1960
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1959
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 627.12 JUDSummary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SPLWarren, Robert Penn
Summary: Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1955
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSummary: October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Motherless 2020Summary: Best friends Mia and Mel are living their best lives running their own cosmetics company they've built from the ground up. Unfortunately, they're in over their heads financially, and the prospect of a big buyout offer from a notorious titan of the cosmetics industry Claire Luna proves too tempting to pass up, putting Mel and Mia's lifelong friendship in jeopardy. The beauty business is about to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIKSummary: One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ISLContents: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Whistle while you work,in the style of Beethoven (English Chamber Orchestra ; Donald Fraser, conductor) (4:33) -- Pinocchio. Give a little whistle, in the style of Haydn (The Shanghai Quartet) (3:09) -- Aladdin. A whole new world, in the style of Chopin (Carol Rosenberger, piano ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Donald Fraser conductor) (6:00) -- So dear to my...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Delos 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV BIBGlass, Philip.
Contents: Secret agent (4:48) -- Winnie remembers (3:13) -- Verloc and the Russian Embassy (5:08) -- Blood on the stairs (1:38) -- The first meridian (3:18) -- Emigration (1:47) -- Trust (3:42) -- Winnie? (5:40) -- Explosives (2:31) -- All the money (1:18) -- Simple (2:38) -- Roast beef (2:27) -- Safe journey (4:11) -- Ossipon is tempted (3:04) -- Winnie goes to sea (2:37) -- Secret agent ending (3:08).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Nonesuch 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC JOSSummary: The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ChCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota iron mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NOR RATED RSummary: Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHISummary: "Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack--the Warner brothers--turned a storefront that used a sheet for a screen into a dream factory rooted in the credo of educate, entertain and enlighten. In this fascinating documentary, filmmaker (and Harry's granddaughter) Cass Warner Sperling tells a story of sibling rivalry, social conscience, and the silver screen."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BROContents: Eye of the tiger (Survivor) (4:06) -- Owner of a lonely heart (Yes) (4:28) -- Addicted to love (Robert Palmer) (4:04) -- Everybody wants to rule the world (Tears for Fears) (4:12) -- Don't you (Forget about me) (Simple Minds) (4:22) -- Higher love (Steve Winwood) (4:16) -- What's love got to do with it (Tina Turner) (3:48) -- Every breath you take (Police) (4:14) -- Arthur's theme (Best that...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PARSummary: "In harm's way": An epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, details the devastating sneak attack on the Naval base as well as the explosive behind-the-scenes stories, and the counter-offensive. (167 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMEGlass, Philip
Contents: Opening (6:09) -- Truman Sleeps ("The Truman Show") (2:40) -- The Poet Acts (4:01) -- Morning Passages (6:10) -- How Now (29:52) -- Something She Has To Do (3:59) -- I'm Going To Make A Cake (3:20) -- Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch (3:32) -- Mad Rush (16:17) -- Dead Things (4:41) -- Tearing Herself Away (5:14) -- Wichita Sutra Vortex (7:22) -- Escape! (4:34) -- Choosing Life (4:42) -- The...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2015
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Purcell, Henry
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O PURCESummary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009