Alpert, Stanley N.

Summary: On January 21, 1998, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped off the streets of Manhattan by a carful of thugs looking to use his ATM card, but when they learned his bank balance, the plan changed. They took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment. But the later it got, the more the plan changed, as his captors held guns to his head, threatened his family, engaged him in discussions...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2006

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Summary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010

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Wolpert, Stanley A.

Contents: River -- Heat -- Monsoon rains -- Mountain walls -- Pre-Aryan urbanization -- Aryan conquests and emerging synthesis -- Ancient imperial unification and its limits -- Islamic conquests -- Westernization and modernization -- Young India's revolutions and reforms -- Impact of Mahatma Gandhi -- Yoga and Shaivism -- Mother Goddess worship -- Nonviolent Buddhism and Jainism -- Laws of action and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 1991

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Contents: Disc one, The stringband era. Pan American blues -- Muscle Shoals blues (DeFord Bailey) -- Gray Eagle (Taylor's Kentucky Boys) -- G rag (Georgia Yellow Hammers, with Andrew Baxter) -- K.C. railroad blues (Andrew and Jim Baxter) -- Dallas rag (Dallas String Band) -- Bill Cheatem (James Cole String Band) -- Turkey buzzard blues (Peg Leg Howell and Eddie Anthony) -- Corinne Corinna (Charlie McCoy...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1998

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Contents: Whatcha see is whatcha get (the Dramatics) -- Ain't no sunshine (Bill Withers) -- Women's love rights (Laura Lee) -- The love we had (stays on my mind) (the Dells) -- Thin line between love & hate (the Persuaders) -- You've got to crawl (before you walk) (the 8th Day) -- I've found someone of my own (the Free Movement) -- Theme from Shaft (Isaac Hayes) -- A natural man (Lou Rawls) -- Have you...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1991

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N Vincent J F Hanley

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: Shapiro, Bernstein 1917

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Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009

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Summary: Night key: An ingenious inventor of a security system is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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Summary: Joining the Outlaw's fight against injustice is mysterious Brother Tuck and a feisty Locksley girl, Kate. Robin leads the battle for a free world, but it's tough when corruption and evil sweep the land. The King is absent fighting in the Holy Land and while his throne is empty, his treacherous brother Prince John plots to seize it. The prince has his eye on Nottingham for his new capital and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2009

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Contents: Green fields of France (The Fureys) -- Riverdance (Celtic Roots) -- Sonny (Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keane, Mary Black) -- The parting glass (The Voice Squad) -- Boys of Ballisodore ; The five mile chase (Ben Lennon & friends) -- Four pence a day (Tola Custy & Cyril O'Donoghue) -- The lambs on the green hills (Na Tom TeaimiÌ?n) -- The old bush ; Crooked road to Dublin ; Man of the house (Na...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Petrol 2006

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Summary: "Set in 1964, Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti. Lord's perspective reveals a unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes chaos of the artistic process. While on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend Giacometti to sit for a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Contents: Called to the foreign field ; I am bound for the promised land ; Where we'll never grow old ; When they ring the golden bells ; To the work ; Do not wait 'till I'm laid beneath the clay ; The days of my childhood plays ; We shall be reunited (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Crossed old Jordan's stream (Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers) -- I am on my way to heaven (Hill Brothers with Willie Simmons) -- Music...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005

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Summary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009

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Summary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005

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Summary: Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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Fitzgerald, Kara N.

Summary: "Healthspan is the period in life that we spend in good health, yet most of us are going to be staring at a 16-year decline that predicts disease, pain, and discomfort-an unavoidable accumulation of indignities and infirmities. But what if aging didn't look that way? What if you could stave off the diseases of aging by slowing your aging process? What if there was a simple formula to keep you...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Go Books 2022

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Contents: Disc 1. (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay ; Sweet Lorene (Otis Redding). I thank you ; Wrap it up (Sam & Dave). Don't pass your judgement ; I wanna be (your lover & your honey) (The Memphis Nomads). I was born to love you ; I'm so glad you're back (Shirley Walton). Lovey dovey ; New Year's resolution (Otis Redding, Carla Thomas). I got a sure thing ; Girl, you have my heart singing (Ollie & the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Contents: Isaac hayes - theme from shaft -- Booker T. & the mgs - soul limbo -- Otis redding - sittin' on the dock of the bay -- The emotions - so I can love you -- William bell & judy clay - private number -- The staple singers - respect yourself -- Carla thomas - I like what you're doing to me -- Frederick knight - I've been lonely for so long -- David porter with isaac hayes - ain't that loving you...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2017

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Contents: Disc 1. Oh la de da (4:48) -- I like the things about me (6:09) -- Respect yourself (4:33) -- I'll take you there (5:15) -- Knock on wood (3:37) -- Lay your loving on me (3:28) -- I like what you're doing (to me) (3:26) -- Gee whiz (2:52) -- I have a God who loves (4:04) -- The breakdown (3:56) -- Do the funky chicken (4:30) -- Do the funky penguin (5:37).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Stax 1989

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Summary: As nervy as it is hilarious, a masterpiece from Ernst Lubitsch, To Be Or Not To Be; is a Hollywood film of the boldest black humor, which went into production soon after the U.S. entered World War II. Lubitsch manages to brilliantly balance political satire, romance, slapstick, and urgent wartime suspense in a comic high-wire act that has never been equaled.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013

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Summary: Romance is in the air when a dashing diplomat is introduced to a beautiful and famous actress. The fact that he's married doesn't stop the love-struck pair from falling into a passionate affair.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013

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Todd, Traci N.

Summary: "Stacey Abrams, politician and Nobel peace prize nominee, is brought to life in this poetic picture book biography that follows Abrams's fight for voters' rights. Narrated by Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Septima Clark, and Fannie Lou Hamer, this powerful story tells how Abrams's work was inspired by those luminaries before her." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Contents: Exodus main theme : This land is mine (7:23) -- Hava nagila (3:20) -- Tradition : [from] Fiddler on the roof (4:03) -- Tzena, tzena, tzena (3:42) -- To life (5:09) ; Sunrise, Sunset (4:43) : [from] Fiddler on the roof -- Second Avenue serenade. Rumania, Rumania ; Bublitchki ; Bei mir bist du Schon ; Oif'n pripitchik ; Shalom aleichem (9:37) -- Raisins and almonds (4:55) -- And the angels sing...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: London 1995

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