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Adventure stories African American motion picture producers and directors Antarctica Blues (Music) British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition. Country music Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Building (New York, N.Y. : 2710 Broadway) Motion picture music Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912 Swedish Americans -- FictionFilter By Subjects
Adventure stories African American motion picture producers and directors Antarctica Blues (Music) British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition. Country music Horn & Hardart Automat-Cafeteria Building (New York, N.Y. : 2710 Broadway) Motion picture music Scott, Robert Falcon 1868-1912 Swedish Americans -- FictionSummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INSVarious artists
Contents: Let's get it started / the Black Eyed Peas -- Here we go again / Ray Charles with Norah Jones -- American idiot / Green Day -- Heaven / Los Lonely Boys -- If I ain't got you / Alicia Keys -- Burn / Usher -- Through the wire / Kanye West -- She will be loved / Maroon 5 -- You had me / Joss Stone -- Redneck woman / Gretchen Wilson -- The first cut is the deepest / Sheryl Crow -- Sunrise / Norah...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Grammy Recordings 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRASummary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FROSummary: Dealing with the loss of her fiancé, Mira Ray sends a series of romantic texts to his old cell phone number...not realizing the number was reassigned to Rob Burns' new work phone. A journalist, Rob is captivated by the honesty in the beautifully confessional texts. When he's assigned to write a profile of megastar Celine Dion, he enlists her help in figuring out how to meet Mira in person...and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: The extraordinary experiences of three men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, through the killing fields of Okinawa, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-J Day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TV PACSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCMessner, Kate
Summary: Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MES(MAY, 1910 TO APRIL, 1911)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1911
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 352.1 ANNContents: Disc 1. Freight train boogie (Captain Luke) -- A living past (Guitar Gabriel) -- Railroad Bill (Etta Baker) -- Going away (John Lee Ziegler) -- High yellow (Cootie Stark) -- Chapel Hill boogie (John Dee Holeman) -- Shortnin' bread (Neal Pattman) -- Old rugged cross (Carl Rutherford) -- No hidin' place (Cool John Ferguson) -- Feel like my time ain't long (Essie Mae Brooks) -- Old time religion...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES WESummary: Death In a strange country. The body of a young man found floating in a Venetian canal has been stripped of all valuables, except for a very visible packet of cocaine. When the man is identified as a health inspector at the U.S. military base in nearby Vicenza, Brunetti's boss Patta gets worried about political reverberations and is eager to dismiss the case as a drug-related murder.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bavaria Media 2011
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV DONCharles, Ray 1930-2005
Contents: All I want to do (with Angie Stone) -- You are my sunshine (with Chris Isaak) -- It all goes by so fast (with Mary J. Blige) -- You were there (with Gladys Knight) -- Imagine (with Ruben Studdard & The Harlem Gospel Singers) -- Compared to what (with Leela James) -- Big bad love (with Diana Ross) -- I will be there (with Idina Menzel) -- Blame it on the sun (with George Michael) -- Touch (with...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CHATolstoy, Leo 1828-1910.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOLTolstoy, Leo 1828-1910.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOLPonting, Herbert George.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Praeger Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 919.89 PONSummary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYTolstoy, Leo 1828-1910
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOLTolstoy, Leo 1828-1910.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 0000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC TOLSummary: Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge, an army of undead zombies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRISummary: Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROMSummary: The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else the customer put nickels into slots, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022