Summary: Featuring an incredible array of the greatest musicians of the '70s and early '80s. It stands alone in the history of rock n roll as the first ever late-night live concert show on TV, capturing the spirit of a time when rock was exploding in so many new, exciting directions. For nine thrilling years, The Special brought audience the very best live music from every genre, rare performances right...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC MID

De Jong, Iain

Summary: The Book on Ending Homelessness provides insights for those in the industry, elected officials, policy makers, funders, public servants and the general public on the best ways to move from managing homelessness to ending homelessness. While ending homelessness may seem to be a whacky or even preposterous idea, Iain De Jong takes more than two decades of experience as an award winning industry...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: FriesenPress 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.5 DE J

Summary: Presents more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent. This collection opens the window on Julia's deepest thoughts and feelings.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co. 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 CHI

Summary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TIL
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TIL

Summary: Following the April 2019 fire that almost destroyed Paris's iconic Notre Dame Cathedral, a team of engineers, masons and timber workers set out on the daunting challenge of restoring France's historic landmark.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV REB

Ram Dass.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bell Tower 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.3 RAM

Davis, Joshua

Summary: In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the national underwater robotics championship at the University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever told Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to much -- until two inspiring high school science teachers convinced the boys to enter the competition. Up against some of the best collegiate engineers in the country,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.8 DAV

Summary: In 2016, a new exhibit on the work of visionary director Guillermo del Toro will begin at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), before moving on to the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the Minneapolis Museum of Art (MIA). This book will be the perfect accompaniment to the exhibition, which focuses on del Toro’s creative process, including the well-defined themes that he obsessively...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Insight Editions 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 GUI

Summary: A charming portrait set against the backdrop of a war on drugs gone horribly awry, laughs are seasoned by the recognition of the government's questionable priorities and shameless use of the judicial system to scapegoat a counterculture icon.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Awesome Documentaries 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AKA

Summary: Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AUD

Bosh, Chris

Summary: Bosh had his playing days cut short at their prime by a freak medical condition. Forced to reckon with how to find meaning to carry forward, he found himself looking back over his path, from a teenager in Dallas who balanced basketball with the high school robotics club to the pinnacle of the NBA and beyond. He saw that his important lessons weren't about basketball so much as the inner game of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BOSH RIL

Dais, Dawn.

Contents: The preparation -- The decision -- The reason -- The accessories -- The training -- The limit -- The moment -- The lifestyle -- The pain -- The fundraising -- The payoff -- The mentality -- The marathon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.42 DAI

Bain, Iain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1994

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.4 BAI

Tosh, Peter.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE Tosh

Jost, Colin

Summary: "Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor, Colin Jost, has six sets of stitches on his face alone. He's been punched in at least four different sketches on Saturday Night Live, including once by his boss, Lorne Michaels. But if there'sone trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it's being able to take a punch-metaphorically and, occasionally, physically. From growing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOS