Egger, Lara

Summary: Wrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one’s own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, image by image. Part confessional, part...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Massachusetts Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 EGG

Summary: A look at life and everyday struggles in Havana through three main stories -- when a woman dies in childbirth, the new father runs away; a lonely woman is courted by an older man, but can't forget her first love; a couple's relationship crumbles when they can't conceive a child.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Cine Cubano a Precios Muy Bajos 2007

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BAR

Summary: Earth has never experienced anything like us: a single species dominating and transforming the planet. Biologist Shane Campbell-Staton travels the world to explore our global impact. Because while we may tell ourselves what it means to be human, the clearest vision of who we are emerges from what we do.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Boon, Fiona

Summary: Presents simple retellings of such familiar Bible stories from the Old and New Testaments as "Noah and the Ark," "David and Goliath," and "The Good Samaritan.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Make Believe Ideas, Ltd 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOARD BOO

Summary: The corpses of the recently-dead are returning to life & attacking the living, devouring their victims. Two members of the Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team & their friends land in a shopping mall occupied by the living dead. They secure the mall through brutal battles with the creatures, but can they escape both the bandits & the zombies?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR DAW

Boon, Fiona

Summary: "Rhyming text introduces readers to Jesus' death and resurrection." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tommy Nelson 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BOARD BOO

Summary: From the streets and taverns of colonial America, in vaudeville, on television and under the bright lights of today's Broadway stage, puppets have been a favorite form of American entertainment. This documentary is the first to chronicle the fascinating evolution of this unique art form. Examines the lives and recounts the significant contributions of men and women who, throughout the years,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mazzarella Media 2007

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

Summary: Five adolescent boys are enamored by the arts, but drawn to crime and transgression. After a brutal crime committed by the group and aided by Trevor - a deity of chaos they can't control - they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming their ferocious appetites. After arriving on a lush island where dangers and pleasures abound, the boys start to transform in both mind and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WIL

Summary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010

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

Contents: Don't knock my love, part 1 / Wilson Pickett. -- Love or let me be lonely / Friends of Distinction. -- Deepr & deeper / Freda Payne. -- Pay to the piper / Chairman of the Board. -- Mr. Big Stuff / Jean Knight. -- Women's love rights / Laura Lee. -- Whatcha see is watcha get / Dramatics. -- Baby let me kiss you / King Floyd. -- Right on the tip of my tongue / Brenda & the Tabulations. -- Thin...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Records 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES CAN

Summary: Amid the political turmoil during 1980's Chile, a lonely transvestite engages in a risky clandestine operation after falling in love with a guerrilla who asks her to hide dangerous secrets of the revolution at home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MY

Laume

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LAU

Okura

Summary: "Despite belonging to a family of four, the Aoyama residence is typically home to three due to father Akiyoshi's job. While he's away at work, mom Tomoko and her two beloved sons Hiroki and Yuri go about their everyday lives--going to school, making dinner, doing homework, etc. But now that Hiroki's in his first year of high school, his thoughts are turning ever so slightly to sex and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Square Enix Manga 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 I

Shura.

Contents: (I) -- Nothing's real -- What's it gonna be? -- Touch -- Kidz 'n stuff -- Indecision -- What happened to us? -- (Ii) -- Tongue tied -- Make it up -- 2shy -- White light.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Polydor 2016

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SHU

Contents: Disc 1: Magnificent obession / Steven Curtis Chapman -- Above all (studio version) / Michael W. Smith -- Say a prayer / CeCe Winans -- You will never walk alone / Point of Grace -- Talk about it / Nicole C. Mullen -- Open up the sky / FFH -- I have been there / Mark Schultz -- Who you are / Caedmon's Call -- It is well with my soul / The river's gonna keep on rolling / Amy Grant -- Holy /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Christian/Provident Music/Sparrow Records 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOW

Summary: A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIL

Summary: A deeply moving portrait of a family's unwavering love and commitment to each other in the face of their son's addiction and his attempts at recovery. As David's son repeatedly relapses, the family are faced with the harsh reality that addiction is a disease that does not discriminate and can hit any family at any time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BEA

Summary: "This four-disc set showcases more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CIN

Summary: Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2022

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 323.1196 MLK

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MLK

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MLK

Summary: On the surface, everything seems the same in the seaside town of Monterey, CA: mothers continue to dote, husbands support, children are adorable, houses are beautiful. But the night of the school fundraiser changed all that. Meanwhile, Perry's grieving mother Mary Louise Wright comes to town in search of answers after the son's death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BIG

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Bi 2

Emrys, Ruthanna

Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC EMR