Summary: The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EgaSummary: 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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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANSummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: The Sacrifice: A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Seas witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International Corporation 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Features music from the first season of the HBO series Treme, the hit show about a New Orleans neighborhood of musicians, chefs, and ordinary New Orleanians who rebuild their lives, homes, and unique culture after Hurricane Katrina.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Geffen 2010
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC TRESummary: 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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfolded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CITL McPhail W Michels
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: L.B.Curtis 1920
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMAndrews, Michael
Contents: Two day rule (2:27) -- One man show (1:04) -- Can't lose my family (1:30) -- Looking for Emily (5:05) -- Voicemail from Emily (4:38) -- Kumail, Terry, and Beth (1:47) -- Biopsy results (1:26) -- Emily wakes (1:30) -- New beginnings (1:32) -- Mutton biryani (1:14) -- New lease on life (1:43) -- The big sick (1:31) -- My love / Inara George & Greg Kurstin (the Bird and the Bee) (3:45).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC BIGBrown, W. N.
Summary: Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison, one of the most horrific prisons ever run--infamous for its overcrowded, vermin-infested conditions. But neither fear, nor darkness, nor squealing rats could keep Rose and Hamilton from freedom. They and other POWs would fight against the odds...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BROSummary: Beth, a popular writer, and her husband Don, a well-liked teacher, share the kind of relationship that truly, seriously, for the love of God cannot be real: that is, they're actually in love. Even after decades of marriage, parenting, and successful careers, their physical spark has somehow not diminished; in fact, they seem to relish the opportunity to share a single ice cream cone and drive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUSummary: Niko is having a tough morning. He's broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly allowance, and was just declared "emotionally unstable" by a court-appointed psychologist. If only he could find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-life of a twenty-something law school dropout, A Coffee In Berlin follows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funning...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COFSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Jarod is a Pretender, a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will. He was taken from his parents at an early age and brought up in a think tank, where he believed his mind was being used to benefit mankind. When he learned that the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest bidder, he escaped. Now on the run, he searches for his true...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRESummary: Jarod is a pretender. He is a very intelligent person who has the ability to slide into somebody else's personality. For that purpose, he was taken from his family as a child in order to work for a secret agency called The Centre. After Jarod escapes The Centre, he has new missions in life - to help people in need with his gift, and to find out what really happened to his allegedly dead...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PRELloyd Webber, Andrew
Contents: Phantom of the opera (4:35) -- Take that look off your face (3:27) -- All I ask of you (4:08) -- Don't cry for me Argentina (5:25) -- Magical Mr. Mistoffeles (3:28) -- Variations 1-4 (2:57) -- Superstar (4:15) -- Memory (4:14) -- Starlight express (5:03) -- Tell me on Sunday (3:28) -- The music of the night (5:13) -- Another suitcase in another hall (2:58) -- I don't know how to love him (3:34)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: MCA 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC LLOSummary: When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances get out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie In-Laws 2003Contents: 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 JAZG Kahn W Schwandt F Andree
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Davis,Coots & Engel 1931
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMSummary: A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007