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Summary: Breaking her thirty-year silence, the former fiancée to Elvis Presley tells the story of her whirlwind romance with the King and what it was like being in Graceland when fifty thousand mourners arrived to pay their respects.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRESummary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWIStinger, Allen J.
Summary: Johnny Joey Jones, a devoted bomb technician in the Marines, fearlessly served his country in the perilous landscapes of Iraq and Afghanistan. Bound by unbroken bonds of battle, he forged profound connections with his fellow servicemen and women, ready to lay down his life to safeguard the freedoms he held dear. But on August 6, 2010, his life changed forever. He stepped on an improvised...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allen J. Stinger 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, JOHNNY JOEY STIAlien.
Contents: Everyting I never said -- Frankie the prankster -- Blind summit -- Time timed -- Slow fader -- Honeycreeper -- The pleasure of leisure -- The return of the rat phink -- Progress is progress -- A man's eye -- A killer in the family.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Room 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC AlienContents: Stars (the Eternals) -- Fancy make up (John Holt) -- Whisper to me (Cecile Campbell) -- Party time (the Heptones) -- Joy in the morning (the Gaylads) -- My ambition (Marcia Griffiths) -- Love won't come easy (the Heptones) -- Hurting me (Alton Ellis) -- Row fisherman row (Wailing Souls) -- Home, home, home (Ken Boothe) -- Our thing (Jackie Mittoo) -- When I fall in love (Ken Boothe) -- Throw me...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STULanger, Ellen J.
Summary: When it comes to our health, too many of us think that a medical diagnosis describes a static or worsening condition. We then live our lives as though our ailments can only change in one direction: for the worse. Langer has spent years testing the limiting effects of our negative assumptions as well as the healing power of being mindful-- present in the moment and not distracted by memories or...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The film depicts the fears, setbacks and daily struggles of aspiring young performers, and, for the very few, stardom and success.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARContents: Gossip (Cyril Neville) (2:35) -- If it's good to you (it's good for you) (Eddie Bo) (2:29) -- Right place, wrong time (Ray J.) (2:55) -- Chicken strut (The Meters) (2:45) -- Tequila (Allen Toussaint) (3:11) -- Hot Tamales (The Prime Mates) (2:37) -- Show it (Betty Harris) (2:55) -- Four corners (Lee Dorsey) (2:51) -- You keep me hangin on (Bonnie and Sheila) (2:42) -- Yeah you're right, you...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2008
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWSummary: Winter's surrogate mother, the very elderly dolphin Panama, has passed away, leaving Winter without the only poolmate she has ever known. However, the loss of Panama may have even greater repercussions for Winter, who, according to USDA regulations, cannot be housed alone, as dolphins' social behavior requires them to be paired with other dolphins. Time is running out to find a companion for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOLContents: Rosa, tomorrow is not Sunday (Dennis McGee) (2:33) -- Hack a 'tit Moreau (Bonsoir, Moreau) (Bois-Sec Ardoin and Canray Fontenot) (3:41) -- KLFY waltz (Aldus Roger) (2:42) -- Zydeco sont pas salé (Clifton Chenier) (3:13) -- La valse du Grand Chemin (Felix Richard) (3:24) -- Paper in my shoe = Papier dans mon soulier (Boozoo Chavis) (3:08) -- Madeleine (Zachary Richard) (3:17) -- La misère m'a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1992
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/NORTH AMERICAN CAJSummary: When Arvid, the most malevolent yeti in all of the North Pole has come in possession of the powerful Master Scroll of The Naughty Children, he enlists the scroll's powers to banish Santa to the Land Of Holiday Misfits, a dreary place from which no one can return. It's up to a boy named Finn and his mighty dragon Haldor to rescue Santa and save the day before it's too late!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BIGContents: Buy dirt / (Jordan Davis ; featuring Luke Bryan) -- Til you can't / (Cody Johnson) -- Famous friends / (Chris Young & Kane Brown) -- Fancy like / (Walker Hayes) -- Drunk (and I don't wanna go home) / (Elle King & Miranda Lambert) -- I was on a boat that day / (Old Dominion) -- Beers on me / (Dierks Bentley ; featuring Breland & Hardy) -- Waves / (Luke Bryan) -- Hell of a view / (Eric Church) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Group 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY NOWSummary: Rogers and Astaire are caught up in a mistaken identity plot, in which Rogers assumes that Astaire is already married, and is alternatively charmed and repelled by his advances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPSummary: Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUMMassenet, Jules
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA THASummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGContents: Keep that light (Johnny Osbourne & the Prophets) (6:07) -- Natty ten to one (Dillinger) (2:26) -- Natty Dread on the go (Lone Ranger) (2:39) -- Minstral (Prince Jazzbo) (3:33) -- Jah promise (Johnny Osbourne) (3:51) -- Wine of violence (Freddie McGregor) (3:18) -- Compliment to Studio One (Papa Michigan and General Smiley) (5:07) -- Easy (Willie Williams) (4:23) -- Quarter pound of ishen (Lone...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD REGGAE STUSummary: Fred Astaire plays a gambler intent on raising $25,000 in New York in order to marry his fiance back home. Romantic complications occur when he meets dancing teacher, Ginger Rogers. Memorable songs include "The Way you look tonight".
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SWISummary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIFContents: Astronaut in the ocean / (Masked Wolf) -- Friday (Dopamine re-edit) / (Riton X Nightcrawlers ; feat. Mufasa & Hypeman) -- Kiss me more / (Doja Cat ; featuring SZA) -- Peaches / (Justin Bieber ; feat. Daniel Caesar & Givéon) -- Beautiful mistakes / (Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion) -- POV / (Ariana Grande) -- Telepatia / (Kali Uchis) -- Deja vu / (Olivia Rodrigo) -- Your power / (Billie Eilish)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Marie is an accomplished ballet dancer haunted by her tragic youthful affair with a shy, handsome student. Her memories of the rocky shores of Stockholm's outer archipelago mingle with scenes from her gloomy present, most of them set in the dark backstage environs of the theater where she works.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012