Hoffman, Dustin M.
Summary: "Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" --
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOFSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Finding 2005Summary: "Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne and his ward Dick Grayson lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting duo Batman and Robin. A secret Batpole in the Wayne mansion leads to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATHuffman, D. M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iowa State University Press 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 589.222 HUFHoutman, Jacqueline
Summary: Bayard Rustin was a major figure in the Civil Rights movement. He was arrested on a bus 13 years before Rosa Parks and he participated in integrated bus rides throughout the South 14 years before the Freedom Riders. He was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., teaching him the techniques and philosophy of Gandhian nonviolent direct action. He organized the March on Washington in 1963, one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: City Lights Books 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RUSSummary: When his wife walks out, Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son have a chance to really get to know each other. Then Ted's wife returns and she wants her son back.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KRASummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCall number: DVD 709 WOR
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Homan, Lynn M.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pelican Pub. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.544 HOMHoffman, Joel M.
Summary: Hoffman shares revelations about mistranslations in the Bible. He offers insight into such examples as the actual intentions of the Ten Commandments, the mistaken description of a virgin birth, and the message of the Song of Solomon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 221.052 HOFSummary: John Jasper, a choirmaster and opium addict, struggles with fits of paranoia and jealousy as he watches the women he loves fall in love with his nephew, Edwin Drood; Fanny Price, a young impoverished woman, arrives at her uncle's country estate, and is snubbed by everyone except her cousin Edmund, whom she soon grows to love; mystery surrounds a pretty Victorian governess and her two young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAHoffman, Joel M.
Summary: Offers an examination of the texts that did not make it into the canonical bible, as well as the diverse reasons for their omission and why some of them are relevant to the lives of modern people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 HOFSummary: "Directed by Emmy Award winner Marina Zenovich and executive produced by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney, this National Geographic documentary film unfolds like a real-life film noir, uncovering the ruthless exploits of California's notorious water barons, who profit off the state's resources while everyday citizens endure a debilitating water crisis"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WATDoody, David M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.5425 CofSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUMSummary: The story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt established by the San Francisco NAMES Project Foundation in 1987 to commemorate the lives lost to AIDS. From the thousands memorialized in the quilt, profiles five individuals--including a recovered IV drug user, a former Olympic decathlon star and a boy with hemophilia--whose stories reflect the diversity and common tragedy of those who have died from...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMSummary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: Po and Furious Five uncover tale of three legendary kung fu heroes Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox, and Master Croc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2011
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KUNSummary: When Po's long-lost panda father suddenly reappears, the reunited duo travels to a secret panda paradise to meet scores of hilarious new panda characters. But when the supernatural villain Kai begins to sweep across China defeating all the kung fu masters, Po must do the impossible-learn to train a village full of his fun-loving, clumsy brethren to become the ultimate band of Kung Fu Pandas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY KUNCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV KUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KUN RATED PGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KUNGSummary: Master Shifu puts Po in charge of hosting the Winter Feast, held to celebrate family and kung fu. Po recruits the Furious Five to help him make the event the best that the Valley of Peace has ever seen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamworks Home Entertainment 2012