Summary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWMinian, Ana Raquel
Summary: "A probing work of narrative history that reveals the hidden story of immigrant detention in the United States, deepening urgent national conversations around migration. In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as children were torn from their parents at the US-Mexico border under Trump's "family separation" policy. But as historian Ana Raquel Minian reveals in In the Shadow of Liberty, this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 365.47 MINSummary: A neo-Nazi skinhead thinks democracy is unnatural; a typical liberal prefers to be a citizen of the world; a far-right office holder fantasizes about his hard-working, disciplined, Aryan fatherland. This program looks at Germany reunified: while there was an East/West, communist/capitalist split, Germans could forget about nationalism, which is now back with a vengeance. The liberals, we...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Tovar, Virgie
Summary: Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it--and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 TOVMahi Mahi.
Contents: 2nd warning -- You can feel right -- Blue and gold -- The fire is on -- Downtown -- That man -- He won't give up -- To the left -- Number nine -- He no wa (The end).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Corleone Records 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MahiBoyz II Men (Musical group)
Contents: Thank You (4:37) -- All Around The World (4:56) -- U Know (4:46) -- Vibin' (4:28) -- I Sit Away (4:35) -- Jezzebel (6:07) -- Khalil (Interlude) (1:41) -- Trying Times (5:23) -- I'll Make Love To You (3:57) -- On Bended Knee (5:30) -- 50 Candles (5:08) -- Water Runs Dry (3:21) -- Yesterday (3:09).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Motown 1994
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Summary: It is based on the inspiring true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of all time. Born in Indian Territory, and raised on the songs and stories of her Chickasaw culture, Te Ata's journey to find her true calling led her through isolation, discovery, love and a stage career that culminated in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TEHirschfield, Brad.
Summary: "We live in a world," says author Hirschfield, "where religion is killing more people than at any time since the Crusades." When it comes to fanaticism, Hirschfield is not speaking abstractly; he once embraced it. As a young man in the early 1980s, he left his family for a group of radical settlers on the West Bank. Now, he has renounced all such rigid delineations of people into totally right...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 201.5 HIRde la Peña, Matt
Summary: Kidd is running from his past and his future. No mom, no dad, and there's nothing for him at the group home but therapy. He doesn't belong at the beach where he works either, unless he finds a reason to stay.Olivia is blond hair, blue eyes, rich dad. The prettiest girl in Cardiff. She's hiding something from Kidd--but could they ever be together anyway?Devon is mean, mysterious, and driven by a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH DE LWeintraub, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: "Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. NASA plans to send astronauts to Mars orbit by the 2030s. SpaceX wants to go by 2024, while Mars One wants to land a permanent settlement there in 2032. As we gear up for missions like these, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already inhabit the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 523.43 WEISummary: The Hudson River, the catalyst for the conservation movement of the 19th century and the environmental movement of the 20th, remains a focus of conflicting desires and competing demands. In this Bill Moyers program, Robert Boyle, author of The Hudson River: A Natural and Unnatural History; Hudson Riverkeeper John Cronin; folksinger Pete Seeger, founder of the Clearwater Foundation; Franny...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Snoop Dogg
Contents: Don Doggy -- Da boss would like to see you -- Stoplight -- From tha chuuuch to da palace / feat. Pharrell -- I believe in you / feat. LaToiya Williams -- Lollipop / feat. Jay-Z, Soopafly, Nate Dogg -- Ballin' / feat. the Dramatics, Lil' Half Dead -- Beautiful / feat. Pharrell, Uncle Charlie Wilson -- Paper'd up / feat. Mr. Kane, Traci Nelson -- Wasn't your fault -- Boss playa -- Hourglass /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Priority 2002
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RAP SnoVan Der Graaf Generator (Musical group)
Contents: Darkness -- Refugees -- White hammer -- Whatever would Robert have said? -- Out of my book -- After the flood -- Boat of millions of years -- Refugees.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK VANJones, Lucile M.
Summary: "By the world-renowned seismologist, a surprising history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--these all stem from the same forces that give our planet life. It is only when they exceed our ability to withstand them that they become disasters. Viewed together, these events have shaped...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.34 JONLaozi
Summary: Most people know Ursula K. Le Guin for her extraordinary science fiction and fantasy writing. Fewer know just how pervasive Taoist themes are to so much of her work. And in Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching, we are treated to Le Guin's unique take on Taoist philosophy's founding classic. Reflecting more than forty years of Le Guin's personal study and contemplation, her rendering of the text is a brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shambhala 2019
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Summary: "From popular TV hosts and bestselling authors Bill and Willie Geist, a hilarious testament to the special nature of father-son relationships. In GOOD TALK, DAD, this talented father-son team shares stories of their funny and heartwarming relationship. Told in a unique back-and-forth banter style, this extended conversation riffs on everything from music and sports to summer camp, driving...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 818.602 GEIClements, Jeffrey D.
Contents: Introduction: what's at stake -- American democracy works, and corporations fight back -- Corporations are not people; and they make lousy parents -- If corporations are not people, what are they? -- Corporations don't vote; they don't have to -- Did corporate power destroy the working American economy? -- Corporations can't love -- Restoring democracy and republican government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.3 CLECorsi, Jerome R.
Summary: Argues that there is a secret conspiracy between leftist extremists, the mainstream media, government holdovers from the previous administration, and shadowy forces within the U.S. intelligence community to destroy the Trump presidency, and explains what Trump must do to prevail.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Humanix Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 CORSchwartz, Barry
Summary: Identifies a loss of common-sense wisdom that has coincided with a collapsing economy, failing schools, and other setbacks, and offers recommendations to identify and cultivate wisdom by combining experience with empathy and intellect.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170.44 SCHSummary: Is light composed of waves or particles? This collection of 17 computer-animated video modules explores the wave model of light, from its earliest roots to our modern understanding of electromagnetism. Empedocles' belief that light streams from the eye, Aristotle's conception of light as a disturbance in ether, and Euclid's mathematical, ray-centered paradigms are all explored. The Cartesian...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Harris, Adam
Summary: Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 HARDanson, Ted
Summary: Most people know Ted Danson from television and movies, but fewer realize that over the course of the past two and a half decades, Danson has tirelessly devoted himself to the cause of heading off a looming global catastrophe--the massive destruction of our planet's oceanic biosystems and the collapse of the world's major commercial fisheries. Here, Danson details his journey from joining a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.95 DANVoz, Dominic
Contents: Real lean -- Oxycodone -- Right to the city I -- Right to the city II -- Las Cuentas -- Dan Ryan -- Jackson Park -- City Currach -- Home.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Accidental Ltd. and Beacon Sound 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL ELECTRONIC VOZRisen, James
Summary: Senator Frank Church of Idaho was an unlikely hero. He led congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and had become a scathing, radical critic of what he saw as American imperialism around the world. But he was still politically ambitious, privately yearning for acceptance from the foreign policy establishment that he hated and eager to run for president. Despite his flaws, Church would show...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023