Ehret, Christopher
Summary: In providing a deep history of Africa, from 70,000 BCE to 300 CE, Ehret traces how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic transitions of world civilization. A framing chapter introduces the historical goals and issues of the book, recounting the terrible histories of recent centuries that led to Africa being wrongly treated as a peripheral other...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 EHRSummary: Tells the story of former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump, two powerful men whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV COMSummary: An unapologetically sexy and subversive comedy based on the bestselling novel by Charlotte Roch. When a bizarre shaving incident lands rebellious teen Helen in the hospital, she develops an unlikely bond with her male nurse. She seduces him with stories of her sexual adventures while using her illness to try and reunite her divorced parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WETSummary: Jakob Eklund stars as tough Gothenburg cop, Johan Falk, in three films that introduced the character to audiences around the world --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Svensk Filmindustri, Sonet Film, MHz Networks 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHSummary: Pete Garrison is on the presidential protection detail when another Secret Service agent is murdered. An informer tells Garrison about an elaborate assassination conspiracy that is related to this murder and is well underway. Garrison also happens to be having an affair with the First Lady, the stress of which causes him to flunk a lie detector test when word of the plot to kill the president...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sentinel 2006Summary: After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TopCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOPShaiman, Marc.
Summary: Contains nineteen songs from the 2007 motion picture "Hairspray," including "The New Girl in Town" by Brittany Snow, "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" by Queen Latifah, and "You're Timeless to Me" by John Travolta and Christopher Walken.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Records 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC HAISummary: Musical drama set in London, 1958. Film portrays lower class youths emerging from post-war privations and struggling to achieve mobility in the face of withering class, racial and economic barriers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ABSBeck, Christophe
Contents: Frozen Heart (1:45) -- Do You Want to Build a Snowman? (3:27) -- For the First Time in Forever (3:45) -- Love Is an Open Door (2:05) -- Let It Go (3:44) -- Reindeer(s) Are Better Than People (0:51) -- In Summer (1:51) -- For the First Time in Forever (Reprise) (2:30) -- Fixer Upper (3:02) -- Let It Go (Single Version) (3:44) -- Vuelie (1:36) -- Elsa and Anna (2:44) -- The Trolls (1:48) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2013
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Beck, Christophe.
Contents: Vuelie (1:36) -- Elsa and Anna (2:44) -- The Trolls (1:48) -- Coronation Day (1:15) -- Heimr °rnadalr (1:26) -- Winter's Waltz (0:59) -- Sorcery (3:16) -- Royal Pursuit (1:02) -- Onward and Upward (1:54) -- Wolves (1:45) -- The North Mountain (1:33) -- We Were So Close (1:54) -- Marshmallow Attack! (1:43) -- Conceal, Don't Feel (1:07) -- Only An Act of True Love (1:06) -- Summit Siege (2:33) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 2014
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Summary: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in the current day. Her malevolence, grown over millennia, unleashes terrors that defy human comprehension.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MuJansma, Kristopher.
Summary: "An inventive and witty debut about a young man's quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable--yet hopelessly earnest--narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANJansma, Kristopher.
Summary: From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable, yet hopelessly earnest, narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansma's irresistible narrator will be inspired and haunted by the success of his greatest friend and rival in writing, the eccentric and brilliantly talented Julian...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JANBeck, Christophe
Contents: Frozen heart (cast of Frozen) -- Do you want to build a snowman? (Kristen Bell, Agatha Lee Monn, Katie Lopez) -- For the first time in forever (Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell) -- Love is an open door (Kristen Bell, Santino Fontana) -- Let it go (Idina Menzel) -- Reindeer(s) are better than people (Jonathan Groff) -- In the summer (Josh Gad) -- For the first time in forever (reprise) (Idina Menzel,...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2013
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FROHonore, Christophe
Summary: Follows the lives of three friends living in Paris who begin a playful threesome until tragedy strikes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LOVLemaire, Christophe.
Contents: The bad will die (Keith Mlevhu) -- Can't you hear me (Paul Ngozi) -- Amanaz (Amanaz) -- No time (Witch) -- Black power (Peace) -- Peaceful man (Peace) -- I'm not made of iron (Chrissy Zebby Tembo) -- Poor connection (Blackfoot) -- I had a dream (instrumental) (Revolutions) -- Making life out of music (Eye Q) -- Like a chicken (Witch) -- Mad man (Born Free) -- Breakthrough (Funkees) -- Don't...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Now-Again 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN LEMSummary: Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are the prey, a beautiful British couple working on their relationship while on holiday in Venice; Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren are the hunters who draw them into the sinister web of their opulent, old-world palazzo. What plays out is an unsettling, sadomasochistic seduction imbued with an atmosphere of sumptuous dread.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMKehret, Peg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tab Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 786.23 KEHAndré, Christophe
Summary: Introduces a technique for practicing mindfulness and achieving increased mental clarity through observing works of art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158 ANDBeck, Christophe.
Contents: Prelude (2:29) -- The Minotaur (5:09) -- Chiron (2:02) -- Victory (1:32) -- The Fury (2:16) -- Dyslexia (1:02) -- The Hydra (6:54) -- Medusa (2:43) -- Son Of Poseidon (1:57) -- The Parthenon (3:42) -- Hollywood (2:32) -- Lost Souls (2:35) -- Fighting Luke, Part 1 (3:54) -- Fighting Luke, Part 2 (2:47) -- Hades (2:47) -- Mount Olympus (1:27) -- Poseidon (3:07) -- Homecoming (3:06) -- End Credits...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: ABKCO (US) 2010
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Raimbault, Christophe.
Summary: On the 11th of July, 1899 at 10 a.m., the Union Pacific Express has left Folsom, New Mexico, with 47 passengers on board. After a few minutes, gunfire and hurrying footsteps on the roof can be heard. Heavily armed bandits have come to rob honest citizens of their wallets and jewels. Will they succeed in stealing the suitcase holding the Nice Valley Coal Company's weekly pay, despite it having...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in USA by Asmodee 2014
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME COLCarlsson, Christoffer
Summary: "In February 1986, the Halland police receive a call from a man who claims to have raped a woman. I'm going to do it again, he says. Then the call cuts off. By the time policeman Sven Jörgensson reaches the victim, she's taking her last breath. For Sven and his son Vidar, this will prove a decisive moment. On the same night, Sweden plunges into a state of shock after the murder of the prime...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARContents: Benediction (Thurston Moore) -- Something on your mind (Karen Dalton) -- Lover of love (Alan Vega, Alex Chilton & Ben Vaughn) -- Driva'man (Abbey Lincoln ; Max Roach) -- Bumbo (Moondog ; with London Brass & London Saxophonic) -- My heart's in the highlands (Else Torp & Christopher Bowers-Broadbent) -- One fine morning (Bill Callahan) -- Everything's fucked (Dirty Three) -- Lessons from Lorena...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014