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Davies, Dangerous (Fictitious character) Drama Detective and mystery plays England England Drama Folk music England Folk songs, English England Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Video recordings for people with visual disabilities Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Dramatizes a weekend at a marquis's countryside château, where the rich and their servants gather, and which exposes some ugly truths about a group of haute bourgeois acquaintances in the early days of World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN RULHughey, Matthew W. (Matthew Windust)
Summary: "On November 5, 2008, the nation awoke to a New York Times headline that read triumphantly: "OBAMA. Racial Barrier Falls in Heavy Turnout." But new events quickly muted the exuberant declarations of a postracial era in America: from claims that Obama was born in Kenya and that he is not a true American, to depictions of Obama as a "Lyin African" and conservative cartoons that showed the new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.24 HUGVerdi, Giuseppe
Contents: CD 1 : Della mia bella incognita borghese -- Questa o quella per me pari sono -- Gran nuova! Gran nuova! -- Ch'io gli parli -- Quel vecchio maledivami! -- Pari siamo! -- Figlia! Mio padre! -- Ah! veglia, o donna -- Giovanna, ho dei rimorsi -- Che m'ami, deh, ripetimi -- Gualtier Malde ... Caro nome -- Riedo! Perche? -- Zitti, zitti.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: London 1985
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD OPERA VERSummary: Critically acclaimed alcoholic actress Thea Barfoed has gone through turmoil, resulting in a divorce and the loss of custody of her two boys. Eager to break with the past, regain control over her life, and get her children back, she uses charm and manipulation to persuade her ex-husband, Christian, that she is able to take back the mantle of motherhood. But ironically, she has not completely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN APPSummary: Based on real events, this is the story of an unsung hero, Franz Jägerstätter, who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II. When the Austrian peasant farmer is faced with the threat of execution for treason, it is his unwavering faith and his love for his wife Fani and children that keep his spirit alive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HIDSummary: A tongue-in-cheek look at the insect world, ultimately portraying the insect as an indomitable menace and potential threat to nature and the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELSummary: Episode I: In this first episode of the "Star Wars" saga young Anakin Skywalker, a slave with a gift for pod-racing, gains his freedom with help from Queen Amidala's Jedi Knights and then, in turn, helps the Queen defend her planet Naboo from the evil Sith Lords.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lucasfilm 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI STAWaid, Mark
Summary: "In the past two years, the little town of Riverdale has changed in a number of amazing ways. The entire Archie universe has been given a fresh coat of paint and it's only getting bigger and better from here. Road to Riverdale presents to readers all of the first issues of each of our new series so far, including Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Josie and the Pussycats, and Reggie & Me,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Archie Comic Publications 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 ROAMartyn
Contents: Forgiveness step 1 -- Glassbeadgames (with four tet) -- Empty mind -- Drones -- Love of pleasure (with copeland) -- Two leads and a computer -- Forgiveness step 2 -- Like that -- Lullaby -- Fashion skater.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC MARSummary: Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASContents: Introduction: From racial profiling to racial literacy : the lessons of 12 angry men / Lani Guinier -- The bill of rights for black men / Bryonn Bain -- Reporting while black / Solomon Moore -- That's Joe Morgan! / Joe Morgan -- On the corner / Richard F -- Chipped away / Nii-Odoi Glover -- Just-us / Daniel K. Davis -- Notes of a naturalized son / Devon W. Carbado -- Severed ties / Kent H -- Do...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 PARJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: "A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC JOCSummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INMather, Matthew
Summary: A supernova threatens to destroy all life on Earth while humanity grapples with an entirely new kind of alien invasion never before imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATCohn, Marthe
Summary: Explores the life of World War II French resistance fighter Marthe Cohn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIJocelyn, Marthe
Summary: Malou, a mixed-race orphan, is on her own for the first time, trying to discover her parents' identities.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Audio 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CD-YA FIC JOCSummary: The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LOVCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVCarthy, Martin.
Contents: Death of Queen Jane (4:23) -- Ship in distress (5:21) -- Whalecatchers (3:03) -- When I was a little boy (3:05) -- Bride's march from Unst/True lover's lament/Lord Inchiquin (5:52) -- Royal oak (3:22) -- Treadmill song (6:05) -- Unfortunate tailor (2:46) -- Bold Benjamin(4:02) -- Mrs. Marriott (4:02) -- Jacky Tar (4:21) -- Mermaid (4:12) -- Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (5:52) -- My heart's in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Topic Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CarthSummary: Captain Marleau has a hunter's instinct, disguised under a deliberately offbeat veneer. As she says herself, she doesn't skim over cases; she plunges into them. Always on the prowl, she lies in wait for clues and her prey and takes them by surprise. In each episode, her hunt centers around a character played by a famous actor, men and women who are a match for the outstanding cop. The volume...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CAPSummary: The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD THRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC THRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THRVarious
Contents: Dún do shúil (Altan) (3:53) -- A day and an age (Liz Carroll) (5:47) -- Cysga di fy mhlentyn tlws = Sleep my little one (Plethyn) (2:31) -- Baloo baleerie (Margie Butler) (3:22) -- The fairy child (Brian Hughes, Garry O'Briain) (3:50) -- I wonder as I wander (Kirkmount) (4:20) -- An hirañ noz (Alan Stivell) (4:40) -- A lullabye (Teresa Doyle) (3:42) -- Si hei lwli mabi = Hush, my little baby...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: World Music Network 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ROUMather, Matthew
Summary: Something big is coming ... big enough to destroy the entire solar system ... and it's heading straight for Earth.That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter and wife, who are vacationing in Italy: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2016
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Carthy, Martin.
Contents: 1. Jolly tinker (2:58) -- 2. The lofty tall ship (4:02) -- 3. The sheepstealer (3:18) -- 4. Old Tom of Oxford (1:44) -- 5. The Trimdon Grange explosion (6:23) -- 6. Sovay (3:47) -- 7. Prince Heathen (7:55) -- 8. Rackabello (3:48) -- 9. The bows of London (6:00) -- 10. The banks of the Nile (3:53) -- 11. The dominion of the sword (3:37) -- 12. The bedmaking (3:10) -- 13. Rags and Tatters/An...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Highpoint Recordings 2002