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Ibañez, Isabel Mullenbach, Cheryl Noir, Fortuna Petite Noir Rule, Heather Sherman, Jill Taylor, SusanSummary: Women who have developed successful careers in the motion picture industry now share their stories with students. This program profiles Vali Fugulin, a director of short films and documentaries; Braydon Haggardy, a camera assistant specializing in underwater cinematography; and Cynthia Greer, a technician who repairs and maintains movie cameras. Remarks from co-workers and supervisors provide...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Calcutta: Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILSummary: "Victoria Kowelska has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to San Francisco Bay. Now she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay. But Victoria is not who she seems, her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: Women in the British work force; some mildly sexist voiceover comments
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1959
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Contents: CD 1. A streetcar named desire (1951). Streetcar (2:52) ; Four deuces (3:07) ; Belle Reeve (3:05) ; Blanche (2:40) ; Della Robia Blue (2:57) ; Flores para los muertos = Flowers for the dead (4:50) ; Mania (1:56) ; Lust (3:18) ; Soliloquy (2:51) ; Redemption (1:53) -- Private hell 36 (1954). Private hell 36 (3:10) ; Havanna interlude (4:08) ; Easy mood (4:04) ; Daddy, long legs (3:46) ; Joshua...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Moochin' About 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC JAZIbañez, Isabel
Summary: "Ximena is the decoy Condesa, a stand-in for the last remaining Illustrian royal. Her people lost everything when the usurper, Atoc, used an ancient relic to summon ghosts and drive the Illustrians from La Ciudad. Now Ximena's motivated by her insatiable thirst for revenge, and her rare ability to spin thread from moonlight. When Atoc demands the real Condesa's hand in marriage, it's Ximena's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2020
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fantasy Ibanez 2020Summary: Women on factory assembly line making lipstick
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Summary: Women in the workplace during WWI, Britain.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1914
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Summary: Presents a collection of stories by current and former residents of Havana that relate tales of ambiguous moralities, collective cruelty, and the damage incurred by self-preservation at all costs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAVSherman, Jill
Summary: "Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J920 SHETaylor, Susan
Summary: "Introduces the reader to women during World War II"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 TAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.53 TAYSummary: The interrupted journey : After reconsidering eloping with another womanat the last minute, John North pulls the emergency break on the train he is traveling on and returns home to his wife. Later on, after the train crashes and many of the passengers end up dying including his mistress, John becomes a suspect when the police discover that she had been murdered prior to the crash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: Various strikes: The sit-in invented by auto workers; separately, seven women protest stage show producers' decision not to hire blondes.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1937
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Summary: Factory labor: Women do small labor with loops of wires and hammers; woman operates a large press in factory; woman drawing wire or cable out of a machine that cuts the cables to length. At Britain's General Electric company. Women working; working class.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Factory labor: Women at benches operate machines; men draw white-hot steel bars out of a press machine; welders with goggles under watch of foreman weld lengths of steel cable together; working class; industrial; sweatshop. At Britain's General Electric
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1915
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Summary: Women working on electronics assembly line
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1950
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Rule, Heather
Summary: "Learn more about the accomplishments of the greatest female Olympic athletes from around the world. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources."--Publisher's website.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: SportsZone, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796 RULSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: "This collection features three classic noir films from the 1950s. Thunder on the Hill (1951)--directed by the great Douglas Sirk, a nun (Claudette Colbert) races against time to prove the innocence of a convicted murderess (Ann Blyth) who is being escorted to prison for a date with the gallows. The Price of Fear (1956)--a woman (Merle Oberon) guilty of a hit-and-run accident frames another...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY FILPetite Noir
Contents: Intro noirwave -- Best -- Freedom -- Seventeen (Stay) -- Just breathe -- La vie est belle = Live is beautiful (featuring Baloji) -- MDR -- Colour -- Down -- Inside -- Chess.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PETSummary: From crime stories in the classic hard-boiled style to the vividly experimental, from the determination of those risking everything to the desperation of those with nothing left to lose, Detroit Noir delivers unforgettable tales that capture the city's dark vitality -- From publisher's description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DETNoir, Fortuna
Summary: "With Pendulum Magic, discover the pendulum's power to act as your guide through the mystical world"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellfleet Press 2023