Summary: An airport janitor makes a big difference in the lives of the children in his poor neighborhood when they mistake him for an airplane pilot. Using his imagination to weave stories of the wonderful places he has visited around the world, a friendship develops as he brings hope to their otherwise grim home life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Terra Entertainment 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CAP

Moss, Al.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1987

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.332 MOS

Hosseini, Ali

Summary: The Place of Stones is Ali Hosseini's newly translated first novel, his second book to appear in English. In it, he paints a vivid portrait of Sangriz, a village in the southern part of Iran where life has been disrupted by industrialization and the revolution of 1979. Haydar and Jamal are best friends, and their families have always made their living from the land in the foothills of Iran's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Books, 2017. 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOS

Summary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADR

Summary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOH

Roos-van Hessen, Frieda E.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest Day Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 ROO

Contents: Disc one. Can the circle be unbroken (bye and bye) (The Carter Family) -- Mule skinner blues (blue yodel no. 8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Barbara Allen (Bradley Kincaid) -- I'll fly away (James and Martha Carson) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers) -- Fox chase (DeFord Bailey) -- Blue yodel number 9 (standin' on the corner) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Wildwood flower...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC COU

Summary: From Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, dictators have shaped the world we live in. How did they seize and wield power? What forces rose up against them or resisted them in secret? How did they finally come to the bitter end? This series answers those questions in six immersive hours, each a revealing portrait of brutality and power.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2019

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DIC

Contents: Ain't that love enough (Larry Atkins) -- I don't have to worry (The Quotations) -- You really made it good to me (Ty Karim) -- Cry it out baby (Deana Lucas) -- I'm so so sorry (Don & Ron) -- Glamour girl (Harvey & the Seven Sounds) -- His true love for you (Al McCarther) -- What have I got now (Darrow Fletcher) -- You fooled me (Lou Roberts & the Marks) -- Long boots ("Originals" of Sight &...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Kent Dance 2008

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NOR

Contents: Jazz Fest: the first 50 years / by Keith Spera -- Heritage, craft, and culture / by Rachel Lyons -- Quint Davis and Jazz Fest / by Karen Celestan -- Food fête / by Rachel Lyons -- The music and musicians of the New Orleans Jazz Festival / by Robert H. Cataliotti -- Off the stage, around the grounds / by Rachel Lyons.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ JAZ

Summary: "This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OTH

Summary: Zaman and his wife Najma have built their happy life together in a house of reeds. When Najma falls ill, the doctor tells them she needs surgery or some medicine he does not have. Zaman sets off in his boat and journeys to Baghdad for the cure.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZAM

Summary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MAR

Summary: Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LOU

Contents: Disc 1. R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (John Mellencamp) -- Be my baby (Melissa Etheridge) -- Love child (Melissa Etheridge) -- Leader of the pack (Melissa Etheridge) -- Tired of being alone (Al Green) -- A change is gonna come (Al Green) -- My city was gone (The Pretenders) -- Folsom Prison blues (Johnny Cash) -- I can't turn you loose (Aretha Franklin) -- It's a man's man's man's world (James Brown)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1996

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CON

Contents: Disc one. Invitation to Jamaica / Lord Tanamo -- Fat man / Derrick Morgan -- Tell me darling / Jackie Edwards -- Running around / Owen Gray -- Miss Jamaica / Jimmy Cliff -- Housewife's choice / Derrick & Patsy -- Give me all your love / The Continentals -- Darling Patricia / Owen Gray -- Man to man / Kentrick Patrick -- Uno-dos-tres / Stranger & Ken -- Slow boat / Al T. Joe -- Rude boy / Duke...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE TRO

Contents: Disc one. Greater (MercyMe) (4:05) ; Soul on fire (Third Day, feat. All Sons & Daughters) (3:16) ; He knows (Jeremy Camp) (3:27) ; Broken together (Casting Crowns) (4:41) ; He knows my name (Francesca Battistelli) (3:26) ; Overwhelmed (Big Daddy Weave) (4:25) ; Jesus loves me (Chris Tomlin) (3:31) ; Save my life (Sidewalk Prophets) (3:44) ; Even so come (Passion, feat. Kristian Stanfill) (4:14)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Christian Music Group 2015

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CHRISTIAN Wow

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS WOW

Summary: In 1971, a group of friends sailed into a nuclear test zone in a protest that would capture the public's imagination. That handful of individuals would go on to become the international environmental organization Greenpeace. Comprised of rare archival footage and interviews with former Greenpeace members, How to change the world recounts Greenpeace's early days under the pioneering helm of its...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HOW

Contents: The last mile of the way (Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers) -- Search me Lord (Brother Joe May) -- Mother bowed (Pilgrim Travelers) -- Oh Lord, stand by me (Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama) -- Too close to heaven (Alex Bradford) -- Get away Jordan (Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes) -- My rock (Swan Silvertones) -- Let God abide (Robert Anderson) -- Prayer for the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Specialty Records 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS GRE

Summary: "This two-disc set contains every item that Lester Young recorded for Aladdin including the rare 1942 trio session with Nat Cole and a 1946 Helen Humes date, from which comes a newly discovered instrumental"--Container.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ YOU

Summary: The lectures in Part 6 bring the progress of philosophy into the present day, beginning with the work of Nietzsche and the American pragmatists William James and John Dewey. This section explains the work and consequence of modern linguistic and logical analysis in lectures on Ayer and Wittgenstein. Also discussed is the structuralism of Claude Levi-Strauss and the attempts to develop rational...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GRE

Contents: That's amore (Dean Martin) -- Nel blu dipinto di blu : (Volaré) (Domenico Modugno) -- Mama (Connie Francis) -- Angelina ; Zooma zooma (Louis Prima) -- Mala femmina (Jerry Vale) -- Pepino the Italian mouse (Lou Monte) -- Spanish eyes (Al Martino) -- Eh, cumpari (Julius LaRosa) -- Cara, mia (Jay & the Americans) -- Piove : (Ciao, ciao bambina) (Domenico Modugno) -- Runaround (The Three Chuckles)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN EH

Summary: A photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote village after their car breaks down. The only adult inhabitant leaves with the photographer to find help, leaving the woman to teach the village children, whose parents are nowhere to be found.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2005

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DES