Watts, Nic
Summary: "When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso 2023
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 972.94 WATAir Waves
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Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AIRPotts, Jim
Summary: A crime wave swept California in the late 1970s. Several young girls were abducted, raped, and murdered. Michael Dee Mattson was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to death. Law clerk by day, family man by night. In 1982, Jim Potts—a brilliant, idealistic, African American law student—is honored when one of his professors recruits him to assist in writing a death penalty appeal on behalf...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vesuvian Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 POTSummary: The newly regenerated Doctor and his companion, Clara, travel across time and space.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Do8Summary: The Yes Men again pull off one bold prank after another in an effort to raise political consciousness. Posing as top executives of giant corporations, they lie their way into big business conferences and pull off the world's most outrageous pranks. When they engineer an announcement that Dow will clean up the site of the largest industrial accident in history, the Bhopal catastrophe, Dow's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC YESSummary: After millions of people around the globe mysteriously disappear, veteran pilot Ray Steele must fight to protect the passengers that remain on his flight. Trapped at 30,000 feet, he must find a way to safely land the damaged plane, and comprehend the chaos that awaits as the most devastating event in history unfolds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEFSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRIContents: Grazing in the grass / Friends of Distinction. -- Color him father / Winstons. -- Hey there lonely girl / Eddie Holman. -- Crumbs off the table / Glass House. -- Rainy night in Georgia / Brook Benton. -- Everybody is a star / Sly & The Family Stone. -- Give me just a little more time / Chairman of the Board. -- Didn't I (blow your mind this time) / Delfonics. -- Bells / Originals. -- Turn back...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CANSummary: One of the most legendary games in the history of sports: Harvard Stadium, November 23, 1968. Harvard and Yale, both teams undefeated for the first time since 1909, meet for the annual climax of the Ivy League football season. Yale and Harvard stage an unforgettable football contest that baffled even their own coaches. Using vintage footage and bracingly honest contemporary interviews with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.332 HARSummary: Presents a collection of mystery stories selected from magazines in the United States and Canada.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Sugar water (Cibo Matto) (4:26) -- Palomine (Bettie Serveert) (4:24) -- Sweet ride (Tanya Donelly) (2:18) -- Everybody can change (Vic Chesnutt) (3:12) -- Mystery girl (World Party) (3:05) -- The city sleeps (MC 900 ft. Jesus) (5:52) -- Just like this train (Joni Mitchell) (4:33) -- Cajun moon (J. J. Cale) (2:41) -- I've had it (Aimee Mann) (4:38) -- Beautiful friend (Sebadoh) (3:00) -- Sunday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mammoth Records 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK RARContents: The Peanut Butter Conspiracy: It's A Happening Thing -- Love: !Que Vida! -- The Monkees: She Hangs Out (Single Version) -- The Cryan' Shames: Mr. Unreliable (Single Version) -- Rose, Tim: Morning Dew -- The Spike-Drivers: Strange Mysterious Sounds -- The Blues Magoos: Pipe Dream -- The Blues Project: No Time Like The Right Time -- The Youngbloods: Merry-Go-Round -- Fowley, Kim: Strangers From...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grapefruit Records 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COFBaths
Contents: Yeoman -- Extrasolar -- Abscond -- Human bog -- Adam copies -- Lev -- I form -- Out -- Superstructure -- Wilt -- Coitus -- Broadback.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC BATSummary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOLBaths
Contents: Worsening -- Miasma sky -- Ironworks -- Ossuary -- Incompatible -- No eyes -- Phaedra -- No past lives -- Earth death -- Inter.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Anticon 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATGetts
Contents: Caution -- Pick up the phone -- Halloween -- London -- Purple sky -- Hand on the bible -- Preach -- Spiritual warfare -- Houdini -- Next of kin -- No love -- King -- Slumdog millionaire -- Jess song
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP GHEPreservation Hall Jazz Band
Contents: Shake it and break it (feat. Andrew Bird) (3:11) -- Between the devil & the deep blue sea (feat. Paolo Nutini) (2:42) -- Tootie Ma was a big fine thing (feat. Tom Waits) (4:18) -- Louisiana fairytale (feat. Yim Yames) (3:09) -- After you've gone (feat. Del McCoury) (3:22) -- Freight train (feat. Ani DiFranco) (3:18) -- Blue skies (feat. Pete Seeger, Tao Rodriguez-Seeger) (2:39) -- Nobody knows...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Preservation Hall Recordings 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ PRESummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Carrie Mathison, a brilliant but volatile CIA agent, suspects that a rescued American POW may not be what he seems. Is Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody a war hero or an Al Qaeda sleeper agent plotting a spectacular terrorist attack on U.S. soil? Following her instincts, Mathison will risk everything to uncover the truth - her reputation, her career, and even her sanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOM RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HomelandCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOMSummary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiSummary: Follows Damon Gameau as he embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as healthy. Highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THASummary: The Best Eighties Album contains the defining tracks of the decade features some of the biggest hits from artists including Belinda Carlisle, Kim Wilde, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Adam & The Ants, KC & The Sunshine Band, The Bangles, Billy Ocean, James Brown and many more.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017