Contents: Roll, Alabama, roll : The Alabama / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:00) -- Shenandoah / The X-Seamen's Institute (3:27) -- Clear the track and let the bullgine roll / Sam Eskin (1:31) -- Greenland whale fisheries / Stuart Gillespie (2:11) -- Paddy Doyle's boots / Alan Mills and the Shanty Men (:36) -- The black ball line / The Foc'sle Singers (:59) -- The sloop John B. / The Dicey Doh Singers...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK CLASummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: A trucker, whose CB nickname is "Rubber Duck," is pursued through three states by an implacable police officer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CONTrudeau, G. B.
Summary: No one can feel the pulse of the world like Garry Trudeau, whose satirical look at the 1960's and early 1970's is a real delight.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRUSummary: Presents three television documentaries that provide an in-depth examination of the presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968, based on the books by Theodore H. White, and showing archival footage, behind-the-scenes moments, backroom deals, and scenes from the convention floor that took place during the races between Kennedy and Nixon; Johnson and Goldwater; and Humphrey, Nixon and Wallace.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Athena 2011
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAKSummary: The shop around the corner: The setting is pre-World War II Budapest. Bickering co-workers in a gift shop don't realize they're lonelyhearts penpals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GREPreston, L. M.
Summary: Homeschooling and Working While Shaping Amazing Learners is a nuts to bolts guide for working parents who want to groom exceptional learners through the flexibility of homeschooling. Learn to juggle working and homeschooling your kids while maintaining your sanity. Also, use aspects of homeschooling for after schooling when traditional school isn't working. Single parents are given options for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Phenomenal Press One 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 371.042 PREFletcher, Matthew L. M.
Summary: Even before the Revolutionary War, American colonists feared and fought “merciless Indian savages,” and through the following centuries, American law and policy have been molded by the relentless tradition of Indian-hating. From proportional representation and restrictions on the right to bear arms, to the break-up of tribal property rights and the destruction of Indian culture and family, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.004 FLEMiller, Donald L.
Summary: Chronicle of the U.S. 8th Air Force's daylight bombing campaign over Europe during World War II, from its genesis to the end of the war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALASummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHESummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Contents: Pass around the bottle (Ernest Stoneman) -- Lorena (Blue Ridge Mountain Singers) -- Johnson boy (Grant Brothers & their Music) -- Dixie (Red Mountain Trio) -- The faded coat of blue (Buell Kazee) -- He is coming to us dead (G.B. Grayson, fiddle, vocals ; Henry Whitter, guitar) -- Sweet bunch of violets (Ernest Stoneman) -- In those cruel slavery days (Ward & Winfield) -- The year of Jubilo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BUSSummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: After the death of her husband, Claire Underwood becomes the first female President of the United States, but faces formidable threats to her legacy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: An Air Force pilot in charge of a group of young flyboys in 1952 Korea knows where and when to separate his private life from his responsibilities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUNSummary: Roy Cohn was a ruthless and unscrupulous lawyer and political power broker whose 28-year career ranged from acting as chief counsel to Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist-hunting subcommittee to molding the career of a young Queens real estate developer named Donald Trump.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHECobb, George L.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: M. Witmark & Sons 1915
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: Inspired by the true story of the biggest bank heist of all time, Harry Barber recounts how in 1972 a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempted to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions from President Richard Nixon's secret fund. But the plan quickly goes sideways, prompting the biggest manhunt in FBI history with more than 125 agents assigned to the case.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019