Elba, Idris
Summary: While in Istanbul, a lonely middle-aged scholar encounters a djinn who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2022
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY THRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THRSummary: Part one of this program presents the life of Jesus against the backdrop of first-century Judea, inhabited by the Jews and occupied by the forces of the Roman Empire. Was Jesus the long-awaited Messiah? After the Resurrection, Saul of Tarsus, later Paul, became a champion of a budding new religion based on Jesus' teachings: Christianity. Part two traces the spread of the faith and its...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Kule, Elaine A.
Summary: A look at the historical roots of the Chinese New Year holiday and how it developed into the modern celebration.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2006
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 394.261 KULBasbanes, Nicholas A.
Summary: A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses); its sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers--by the admired cultural historian.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 676.09 BASBrown, David J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 624.209 BROBelleza, Rhoda
Summary: When their paths cross after a brutal attack Aly is falsely accused of making on Rhee, they are forced to work together to save their own lives and the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC BELWu, Yangmu
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Amsterdam 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 751.42 WUThree Pickers
Contents: Feast here tonight -- What would you give in exchange for your soul? -- Spoken introduction -- Who will sing for me? -- Spoken introduction -- Soldier's joy -- Walk on boy -- Daybreak blues -- Don't let your deal go down -- Pick along -- Doin' my time -- Earl's breakdown -- The storms are on the ocean -- Down in the valley to pray -- The banks of the Ohio -- Ridin' that midnight train -- Spoken...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY THROther Years (Musical group)
Contents: Red-tailed hawk -- Adaline -- Sinks of Gandy -- Talkeetna -- Fair Ellen -- White marble -- Chapel of Pine Mountain -- Lantern song -- Wildegesses -- Bridges.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK OTHSummary: The 11th century saw calamities, famine, and war. The literate clergy interpreted these events as confirmation of the predictions in St. John's Book of Revelation. This program depicts this tumultuous time by dramatizing the life of Ademar de Chabannes, a monk who wrote a remarkable chronicle of the early years of the millennium. Through his eyes the whole range of 11th-century life can be...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The centuries-long era of painting on wooden panels culminated in magnificent works such as Grunewald's Isenheim Altarpiece and van der Weyden's Beaune Altarpiece. But then canvas finally came into its own: light in weight, low in cost, easy to prepare, and an ideal replacement for frescoes where climatic conditions did not easily permit mural painting, over time it became the artist's medium...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Where was golf invented? And soccer? And polo? Research has revealed that the answer to all three questions is China. In this program, these and other sports-archery, acrobatics, the martial art wushu, dragon boat racing, and 15-pole ball, a form of bowling-are each set securely within the contexts of Chinese history and culture as authentic reenactments bring these ancient games (and some of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Three Tenors
Contents: Io conosco un giardino / Pietri (Carreras) -- Amor ti vieta / Giordano & Colautti / (Domingo) -- Granada / Lara (Pavarotti) -- T'estimo / Grieg (Carreras) -- Memoires de Danton / Domingo (Domingo) -- Caruso / Dalla (Pavarotti) -- Medley of romance: Sous le ciel de Paris ; Solamente una vez -- Maria, Mari -- Torero quiero ; Parlami d'amore Mariu ; Tu, ca'nun chiagne! ; Manha de carnaval ; Te...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL THRSummary: This program travels to four locales to examine technical aspects of how frescoes have been painted: a villa in Pompeii, where walls saturated with figures, dense colors, and ornamental motifs functioned both decoratively and ritually; the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo, home of della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross; the Salle des Saisons at the Louvre, to view Romanelli's frescoes...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Davidson, Abraham A.
Contents: Beginnings of American painting -- History of America in paintings -- Notable American portraits -- American natural landscape -- Americans at work and play -- Visionary tradition -- American urban landscape -- Nonobjective painting -- Painting in the 1960s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams, Harry N. 1974
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 DAVSakamoto, Ryūichi
Contents: Thousand knives -- Island of woods -- Grasshoppers -- Das neue Japanische elektronische volkslied -- Plastic bamboo -- The end of Asia.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Denon 1984
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC SAKSummary: Chinese Christians are growing in number-but are their beliefs compatible with Western teachings? Why does the Communist government look so favorably on a "foreign" faith? Has the Gospel become a tool of authoritarianism? This program searches for answers as it explores the startling ascent of Christianity in China. Outlining the persecution of Christians under Mao, the film studies a past...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Barron, T. A.
Summary: A young boy who has no identity nor memory of his past washes ashore on the coast of Wales and finds his true name after a series of fantastic adventures.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BARSummary: The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fifth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteed to challenge, provoke, and entertain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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Summary: The story of the forced re-location of five southeastern U.S. Indian nations in the 19th century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BENLehrman, Lewis Barrett
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: North Light Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 752 LEHSummary: Two Communist Party officials cruise the dusty streets of Ma Bei village in a new Cadillac. Welcome to China at the end of the 20th century. Fueled by profits from private businesses, the town is booming, while at a plant up the road thousands of workers, formerly protected under the communist system, may lose their jobs under privatization. Similar situations are developing all over China, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Lustbader, Eric.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUSSpaizZzer
Summary: After a long demonic winter, Tree-Tree reawakens and rebuilds. This time, Tree-Tree aims higher, and tries to build something meant to last in a world filled with heroes and demons. Tree-Tree's new growing empire now faces the crusades from unfriendly faiths, more demons, and unhelpful heroes, as Tree-Tree spreads his roots and Empire across the Central Continent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024