Vinocour, Susan Nordin
Summary: "A powerful and humane exploration of the "insanity defense," through one heartbreaking case. A three-year-old boy dies, having apparently fallen while trying to reach a bag of sugar on a high shelf. His grandmother stands accused of second-degree murder.Psychologist Susan Nordin Vinocour agrees to evaluate the defendant, to determine whether the impoverished and mentally ill woman is competent...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.747 VINCorwin, Norman
Summary: Academy Award nominees Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn star in Norman Corwin's electrifying dramatization of the history-making Lincoln-Douglas debates. This fierce rivalry between rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas tackled some of the day's most passionate and controversial issues -- above all, those of slavery and the American concept of freedom. As...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808.5 CORGoldin-Meadow, Susan
Summary: "Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.6 GOLSummary: In August, 1892 Lizzie Borden is famously charged with the murder of her stepmother and father. It causes a huge media sensation, perhaps the first example of a tabloid court case. But what really happened on that night? Did Lizzie really do it? What happened in her quietly idyllic Massachusetts life that unfurled this chain of events? Did her father's strict hand send her down this treacherous...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIZSummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Stanko, Tomasz.
Contents: Domino (7:59) -- Litania (part one) (2:40) -- Stone ridge (7:58) -- ... y despues de todo (3:55) -- Litania (part two) (2:00) -- Quintet's time (6:47) -- Pantronic (3:05) -- The lark in the dark (6:38) -- Love theme from farewell to Maria (6:15) -- ... from the green hill (7:44) -- Buschka (7:09) -- Roberto Zucco (2:53) -- Domino's intro (1:01) -- Argentyna (6:49).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ECM 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ STASeeboruth, Sumana
Summary: "'Undies! For me. Like those, Daddy!' This excited tot can't wait to get a pair of undies. Time to learn to use the potty!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barefoot Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ten years ago, Phoebe Maybury's hateful husband David disappeared from Streech Grange. Now, a naked, unidentifiable corpse has been discovered in the icehouse on the Grange and Inspectors Walsh and McLoughlin have to decide whose it is, whether he was murdered; and who killed him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ICECorwin, Norman
Summary: Recaptures the fiery face-off between the rising legislator Abraham Lincoln and the incumbent Senator Stephen A. Douglas. Tackles some of the day's most passionate issues -- war, slavery and the American concept of freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: L.A. Theatre Works 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN RIVSummary: Georgina is focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. The Clios family is still reeling from the devastation caused by Constantine's mysterious death, while Georgina continues her battle for dominance and control with Irina Clios and her children Christos and Adriana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RIVSummary: "Hollywood legend Barbara Stanwyck saddled up with writer-director Samuel Fuller for the pulp maestro's most audacious western, a boldly feminist spin on the genre that pivots effortlessly between ribald humor, visceral action, and disarming tenderness. High-riding rancher Jessica Drummond (Stanwyck) commands a forty-strong posse of cowboys, ruling Cochise County, Arizona, without challenge....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FORSummary: "Sinbad (John Phillip Law) Prince of Baghdad and legendary sailor finds an intriguing map and sets sail fo the previously uncharted island of Lemuria with a beautiful slave girl, Margiana (Caroline Munro), and the Grand Vizier of the land of Marabia, Prince Koura (Tom Baker), an evil wizard who is trying to gain control of Marabia through his manipulation of malevolent spirits, follows in an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Sivan, Troye
Contents: Seventeen -- My my my! -- The good side -- Bloom -- Postcard / (featuring Gordi) -- Dance to this / (featuring Ariana Grande) -- Plum -- What a heavenly way to die -- Lucky strike -- Animal.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SIVSummary: Thirteen-year-old Meg Murry, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin are guided by unearthly strangers as they go on a journey through space and time to search for Meg's and Charles' scientist father who disappeared while experimenting with a new form of space travel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WRI RATED PGSummary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOWSummary: Bumbling spy Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 for CONTROL, battles the forces of nemesis agency KAOS with a great deal of help from his partner Agent 99.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GETSummary: As a former outlaw turned wagon train guide, Stewart is pitted against warring Indians, murderous hijackers and a traitorous ally as he attempts to lead a group of settlers through the treacherous Oregon wilderness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BENSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: Josephine Chesterfield is a glamorous, seductive Brit who defrauds gullible wealthy men. Penny amasses wads of cash by ripping off her marks in neighborhood bars. Despite their different methods, both are masters of the art of the fleece, so they combine talents for their next mark: a naive tech billionaire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hustle 2019Summary: Although Dido Elizabeth Belle, an eighteenth-century English woman of mixed race, is raised in privilege by her aristocratic great-uncle and his wife, she is denied a proper social standing because of her skin color. But when Dido falls in love with a young idealist lawyer who aspires to create positive change, she finds herself caught between two worlds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BeSummary: For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Viva Pictures 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LetSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016