Li, Jessica
Summary: High school students Stella, Ed, Ingrid and Harry navigate life, exploring issues of sexuality, drug and alcohol use, identity, and consent. Flunk is a critically acclaimed LGBT teen drama following shy sixteen year old Ingrid, as she starts to explore her sexuality. Falling for her best friend Stella, Ingrid struggles to navigate her first relationship, the pressures of a country high school...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FLUBearden, Romare
Summary: When a company of black Union soldiers tells L'il Dan that he is no longer a slave, he follows them, and uses his beloved drum to save them from attack.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC BEASummary: These three classic Charlie Chan mysteries made by famed B-movie titans Monogram pictures gives us two different Charlies in the persons of Sidney Toler (The Red Dragon) and Roland Winters (The Feathered Serpent, The Sky Dragon), but both styles of supersleuth must tackle truly draconian mysteries and murder. The Red Dragon finds Charlie (Toler) and Number Three Son Tommy (Benson Fong) cracking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHAHersh, Kristin
Summary: Kristin Hersh toured with Chesnutt for nearly a decade and they became close friends, bonding over a love of songwriting and mutual struggles with mental health. In Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, she describes many seemingly small moments they shared, their free-ranging conversations, and his tragic death. More memoir than biography, Hersh’s book plumbs the sources of Chesnutt’s pain and creativity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHESNUTT, VIC HERSummary: "More than just one of the greatest concert films ever made, The Last Waltz is an at once ecstatic and elegaic summation of a vital era in American rock music. Invited to capture the farewell performance of the legendary group The Band at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving, 1976, Martin Scorsese conceived a new kind of music documentary. Enlisting seven camera operators (led by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LASSummary: Takes the viewer behind the walls of government, as CIA, Pentagon and foreign service experts speak out detailing the lies, misstatements and exaggerations that served as the reasons for fighting a "preemptive" war against Iraq that wasn't necessary. Includes interviews with more than 20 experts in opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Co. 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC UNCSummary: An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: What a whatchamacallit is. Discover where the sun goes at night. Figure out how to un-flip a turtle. Learn why a step, a squirm, and a hop are very different measurements. Then join real kids as they experiment and play in their own big wide world. Build bridges. Make shadow puppets and track shadows. Find funny ways to measure yourself. It's all part of your scientific research.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PEEHarvey, Jeanne Walker.
Summary: In Harlem, New York City, an artist follows the rhythms of blues music as he recalls his North Carolina childhood while painting, cutting, and pasting to make art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HarveySummary: Examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and silence political dissent. Chronicles the patterns of voter disenfranchisement from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disinformation Company 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: The true story of Chicago White sox pitcher, Monty Stratton. Stratton suffers a devastating hunting accident which leads to the amputation of one leg. Learning to walk with an artificial limb, he struggles to resume his career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006