Allen, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 333.7515 ALLSummary: Filmmaker Chuck Workman explores the lives, works and influence of four leading lights of the "Beat Generation" of the 1950s: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Neal Cassady. Cutting back and forth between archival footage of his subjects and readings of selections from the authors' works, he creates a fast-paced collage of images that show how the Beats became the dominant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: Daniel Kremer's Overwhelm the Sky is an epic odyssey of a spiritually shell-shocked man searching for answers in a world of loners, mourners, kooks, seducers, deceivers, and sleepwalkers. The San Francisco Chronicle aptly describes it as 'part noir, part epic journey from inner mind to outer expanses.' Loosely adapted from the 1799 gothic novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OVEGinsberg, Allen
Summary: "A culmination of four years of work, from the first time Allen suggested this box to me in a New York taxi to the final assembly and production by Hal Willner."--James Austin.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino/Word Beat 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN GINBoyce, Charles.
Summary: Nearly 3,000 entries and over 50 illustrations provide information on all facets of Shakespeare's life and works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 BOYBurroughs, William S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 BURSummary: Award-winning docu-drama about the king of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac. Combines rare footage featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Zoot Sims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Goldhil Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JACSummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ROOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RoomCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROO RATED RSummary: When a group of Yankee tourists take a detour and wind up in the small Southern town of Pleasant Valley, which has magically rematerialized 100 years after its destruction during the Civil War, they find themselves welcomed by the eager townsfolk as guests of honor at their centennial celebrations. Little do the Northerners know that the festivities are set to include torture, death and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR TWOSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISSummary: Here comes Cookie: A wealthy retiree surprises everyone by deeding his entire fortune to his ditzy daughter. But when the newly rich young woman becomes convinced the family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, complications abound -- Six of a kind: Sharing a car on a drive to California with another couple turns into a comedy marathon -- Love in bloom: Lighthearted story of a young woman on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GEOSummary: An amazing adventure with Barbie where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie's two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away! Barbie and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BARSummary: A brother and sister are magically transported through their television set and into the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom called Pleasantville. Soon they affect this environment with their worldly sensibilities, and people and things slowly begin to acquire color.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PLEMyers, Walter Dean
Summary: A regiment of African American soldiers from Harlem travels across the Atlantic to fight alongside the French in World War I, and inspires an entire continent with their unique brand of jazz music.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 940.4 MYESummary: After five-year old Jack and his Mom escape from the enclosed environment that Jack has known his entire life, the boy makes a miraculous discovery: the outside world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ROOStorrer, William Allin
Summary: From sprawling houses to compact bungalows and from world-famous museums to a still-working gas station, Frank Lloyd Wright's designs can be found in nearly every corner of the country. While the renowned architect passed away more than fifty years ago, researchers and enthusiasts are still uncovering structures that should be attributed to him. William Allin Storrer is one of the experts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 720.92 STOStorrer, William Allin
Summary: Early on, Frank Lloyd Wright knew he would be an architect. His overriding goal was to create a Democratic American Architecture. But first he had to create an American Architecture. Born in Bear Valley, Wisconsin, raised in nearby Richland Center, he spent time in Massachusetts before settling in central Wisconsin. His architectural career began in Chicago, ended in Arizona. He created Prairie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WineWright Media 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Storrer, William Allin
Summary: Though having achieved considerable fame, by 1909 Frank Lloyd Wright recognized the failure of Prairie architecture. He went to Europe and produced the Wasmuth Portfolio, his celebration of and epitaph to the Prairie School. Frank Lloyd Wright: Designing Democratic Architecture is about the ascension from Prairie to Usonian, Wright's Democratic American architecture, and its fulfillment of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WineWright Media 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Storrer, William Allin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.2 WINE STO1 available in Local History Room (LHR), Call number: LHR 663.2 STO
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 STOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.23 STOWilliams, Esther.
Summary: Cynthia must choose between her wealthy husband and the soldier she loves; Maria steps in for her twin brother when he abandons the bullfighting ring; a singing soldier abandons his pre-war life for love; an Ohio schoolteacher falls in love with a Tahitian girl; Williams portrays Australian swimmer and film star Annette Kellerman; swimming star Julie Hallerton falls in love with her boss who is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009