Colbert, Jaimee Wriston
Summary: Inspired by a real shark attack in 1958, this story is about two women whose lives are transformed by a shark attack that amputates a child's leg. It is alternately narrated by Scat, the older sister of the victim, now a reformed drunk and disaster photographer, and by Gracie, a casualty of a disfiguring accident, who becomes obsessed with Shark Girl, as the younger sister is known, for Shark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Livingston Press, University of West Alabama 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Forever ; I still miss someone (Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson) (00:47) -- To June this morning (Ruston Kelly and Kacey Musgraves) (2:05) -- Gold all over the ground (Brad Paisley) (3:31) -- You never knew my mind (Chris Cornell) (4:57) -- The captain's daughter (Alison Krauss & Union Station) (4:59) -- Jellico coal man (T. Bone Burnett) (3:40) -- The walking wounded (Rosanne Cash) (5:05)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Recordings 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY CASSummary: "A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY RIOSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: On 12.12.12 some of the world's leading artists came together for a live, one-night-only fundraising concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The concert was broadcast all across North & South America, Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia. The all-star line-up includes The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin, Paul...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TWESummary: The fourth season of this classic groundbreaking series saw the beginning of one-hour episodes. This allowed for more elaborate and detailed stories which plunged viewers even further into the twilight zone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: Featuring live action and animation, this movie examines the history and current state of the living organic matter that we come from and will later return to.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIRSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: Actor Thomas Mitchell stars in each episode as writer O. Henry himself as he relates his stories to his publisher, his barber, a bartender, or the cop on the beat. In some episodes, O. Henry meets his characters as he discovers firsthand the story he will later write.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OSummary: Taking place largely over the course of one tense night, Carol Reed's psychological noir, set in an unnamed Belfast, stars James Mason as Johnny McQueen, a revolutionary ex-con leading a robbery that goes horribly wrong. Injured and hunted by the police, he seeks refuge throughout the city, while the woman he loves (Kathleen Ryan) searches for him among the shadows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VINSolberg, James.
Contents: Bubba's boogie (4:21) -- L.A. blues (6:05) -- Wally World U.S.A. (3:42) -- Ballad of a thin man (8:32) -- Must be a reason (4:19) -- Rhumba juice (5:04) -- Robb's souffle (3:50) -- Say goodbye (5:40) -- Just a closer walk with thee (4:57) -- Happy snails (6:02)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ruf Records 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SOLReston, James
Contents: Prologue: The Battle of Maldon -- King Olaf Trygvesson --Thorgeir the Lawspeaker --- Queen Sigrid the Strong-Minded -- Svein Forkbeard versus Ethelred the Unready -- Armageddon at sea -- Al Mansour, the Avenging Moor -- Little Sancho and Sancho the Great -- Forty thousand horsemen of the Apocalpse -- Vajk the Saint -- Gerbert the Wizard --Theophano, almost purple-born -- Otto the Dreamer --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.1 RESSummary: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, and Natalie Wood star in a moving, romantic drama about a soldier, previously thought lost in action, who returns years later to find his wife remarried.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TOMSummary: Actress/advocates and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof meet individuals who are doing work to empower women and girls everywhere. These are stories of challenge, transformation and hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HALSummary: Love, Romance & Chocolate: New York accountant Emma Colvin is heartbroken when her boyfriend leaves her before their planned romantic getaway to Belgium for Valentine's Day. Convinced by a friend to go alone on the trip, Emma has the adventure of a lifetime when her Belgian innkeeper introduces her to renowned chocolatier, Luc Simon. Luc and his fellow chocolatiers are in the midst of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Fam LaceySummary: The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TWECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 12 2021Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWESummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief Stone reopens an unsolved murder case, digging up clues in an old grave and pursuing the ghosts of a forgotten crime....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 4Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2008Contents: Wah wah blues (Earl Hooker) (4:36) -- The thrill is gone / Arthur Benson, Dale Pettite (B.B. King) (5:27) -- I'll play the blues for you, pts. I & II / Jerry Beach (Albert King) (7:20) -- I wouldn't treat a dog (the way you treated me) / Michael Price, Dan Walsh, Steve Barri, Michael Omartain (Bobby Bland) (3:17) -- Let's straighten it out (Latimore) (5:15) -- Wonder why / Mel London, Lillian...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES POSSummary: "What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of 'good society'? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006