Summary: This silent film showcases the people and places of Traverse City, Michigan in 1940, featuring local churches, schools, businesses, families and social gatherings. In the film, The Traverse City Exchange Club invites famous Hollywood director "Gary Owens" to preside over a Movie Queen contest in which the winner will receive a Hollywood contract. The film was originally produced as a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: History Center of Traverse City 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 917.7464 WERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WE'RE1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: R NEL 977.4 We're
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Local We'reContents: Rumble in the jungle/Fugees featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes & Forte -- Drew "Bundini" Brown -- Ain't no sunshine/You/Bill Withers -- Sweet sixteen/B.B. King -- African girls chant -- When I get to Africa/Ali -- The payback/James Brown -- Mobutu chant-- I'll be around /Spinners -- Put it where you want it/Jazz Crusaders -- Wait till I kick Foreman's behind/Ali -- I got some help I...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Mercury 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC WHESummary: From the Greeks to the present, this program explores the evolution of play structure, staging techniques, and acting styles. Viewers learn about the following innovations, movements, and artistic figures: the open air amphitheater and its central role in the work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; the use of the chorus and masks; the role of theater in ancient Roman society; morality and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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McDonough, Yona Zeldis
Summary: "More than 2,000 years ago, travelers wrote about the incredible sights they saw while on their journeys. They told tales of hanging gardens that were built for a Babylonian queen, and a colossal statue that guided ships through the harbor of Rhodes in Greece. These writers compiled a list of the very best of these sights that are now known as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Author Yona...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2020
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 709.01 MCDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709.01 MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Ancient What McDonoughBuzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUZSummary: In this program, Ellen Adler, owner of The Stella Adler Conservatory, and author William Simon appraise the impact of the drama groups that flourished during the Depression-both those that were privately operated and those that were federally funded-and their lasting contributions to theater. Among the topics discussed are the American Method style of acting, as pioneered at the Group Theatre;...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: Blackbird / David Harrower -- The clean house / Sarah Ruhl -- The coast of Utopia / Tom Stoppard -- Dying city / Christopher Shinn -- Frost/Nixon / Peter Morgan -- The pain and the itch / Bruce Norris -- Passing strange / Stew and Heidi Rodewald -- Radio golf / August Wilson -- The scene / Theresa Rebeck -- Spring awakening / Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Limelight Editions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812.5 BESLarison, John
Summary: Facing starvation and worse when she is orphaned on her family's 1885 homestead, seventeen-year-old sharpshooter Jessilyn Harney cuts off her hair and disguises herself as a boy to journey across the mountains in search of her outlaw brother.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LARSummary: Watch your child become a designer, builder, and storyteller right before your eyes. With Build & Imagine’s “Fairytale Theater”, budding thespians will design a set then act out fairytales or make up their own. The mix & match illustrated theater backdrops and plentiful magnetic props provide endless inspiration for young imaginations. Features a pirate cove, treasure map, spooky forest, armor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Traverse Area District Library 0000
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 102Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT 18Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane
Summary: "Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation--in the form of a letter edged in black--to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent--the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUZEilish, Billie
Contents: !!!!!!! (0:13) -- Bad guy (3:14) -- Xanny (4:03) -- You should see me in a crown (3:00) -- All the good girls go to Hell (2:48) -- Wish you were gay (3:41) -- When the party's over (3:19) -- 8 (2:53) -- My strange addiction (3:00) -- Bury a friend (3:12) -- Ilomilo (2:36) -- Listen before I go (4:02) -- I love you (4:51) -- Goodbye (1:59).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Noyes, Martha.
Summary: "Then There Were None, by award-winning Honolulu writer and artist Martha H. Noyes, is a personal and emotional account, in words and pictures, of the effect of Western contact on the Hawaiian population. Drawing from a variety of sources, Noyes chronicles the effects, from the arrival of Capt. Cook to the present, of disease, written language, the missionaries, landownership, the overthrow of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bess Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 996.9 NOYSinger, Matt
Summary: When Gene Siskel, a film critic for the Chicago Tribune, and Roger Ebert, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work at the Chicago Sun-Times, reluctantly agreed to collaborate on a new movie review show with PBS, there was at least as much sparring off-camera as on. Their antagonistic partnership made for great television, and their signature "Two thumbs up!" would become the most trusted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SINSummary: As a founding member and the driving force behind the Group Theater, Harold Clurman helped heighten the emotional sensitivity and social awareness of American drama. This classic program, narrated by Meryl Streep, recounts Clurman's artistic journey using rarely seen archival films and conversations with the director's inner circle-luminaries of the mid-20th-century American stage including...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This four-piece hand puppet set makes it easy for young kids two and up to role play alone or together with adults or other kids! Although made for little hands, these puppets are also sized to fit on most adults. The rabbit, parrot, kitten, and puppy are soft, simple, and friendly glove puppets which can be used together to act out a scene or separately for simple puppet play. Either way, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melissa & Doug LLC
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1 available in STEM Kits, Call number: J STEM KIT #14Summary: Ten people, strangers to each other, are invited to a lavish estate on an island. The tension mounts as, one by one, they are murdered.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ANDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANDSummary: It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern England. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts Mr and Mrs U.N. Owen mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime. As each member of the party starts to die one by one, the survivors realize that one of them is a killer...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ANDMortlock, Michele
Summary: "Flappers, flag-pole sitting, and the Ford Model T--these are just a few of the things that instantly conjure up a unique era--the Roaring Twenties. It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild, exciting decade. It began on the heels of one tragedy--the flu pandemic of 1918--and ended with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.91 MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What MatlockSanders, Don
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Publisher / Publication Date: Motorbooks International 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 SANMilne, A. A. (Alan Alexander)
Summary: Verses for children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1958
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Place a hold to request this item.Pollack, Pam
Summary: "Discover more about the comedy team that perfected the art of the pie fight! The Three Stooges were the hardworking children of immigrants and discovered a love of performing at an early age. Starting out as a vaudeville act, they soon transitioned into movies, becoming a worldwide sensation in feature films and shorts. Never the critics' darlings, audiences loved them for their mastery of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 POLMoore, Jodi.
Summary: A young boy builds a sand castle on the beach and a dragon moves in. The boy and the dragon spend the day at the shore flying a kite, braving the waves, defying bullies, and roasting marshmallows, while the boy's parents remain occupied nearby with their own pastimes. When no one believes the boy's story about the dragon, the creature launches into a mischievous mode and wreaks havoc on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flashlight Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE FIC MOOSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "During World War II, black Americans were fighting for their country and for freedom in Europe, yet they had to endure a totally segregated military in the United States, where they weren't considered smart enough to become military pilots. After acquiring government funding for aviation training, civil rights activists were able to kickstart the first African American military flight program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET TUSKEGEERobertson, David
Summary: "When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighWater Press 2016