Summary: A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DORSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti's long career was dogged by persistent accusations of conspiracy, Mafia connections and state-sponsored terror. This compelling film explores the shocking political machinations and shady criminal underworld surrounding this fascinating and controversial figure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DIVContents: v. 1. (1934-1945) The continental / Fred Astaire -- Lullaby of Broadway / Dick Powell -- The way you look to-night / Fred Astaire -- Sweet Leilani / Bing Crosby -- Thanks for the memory / Bob Hope & Shirley Ross -- Over the rainbow / Judy Garland -- When you wish upon a star / Cliff Edwards -- The last time I saw Paris / Kate Smith -- White Christmas / Bing Crosby -- You'll never know / Dick...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ENVSummary: Based on P.D. James's global bestsellers, this riveting mystery series stars Bertie Carvel as enigmatic Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. A recent widower and acclaimed poet, Dalgliesh is a cerebral, reserved man but possessed of exceptional empathy and insight. As he investigates complex crimes in 1970s England, he plumbs the darker depths of the human psyche in his pursuit of justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DALSummary: A small-time casanova with no political convictions and fewer brains shoots his sister's pimp to save the family honor. He is caught, tried, sent to an insane asylum, volunteers for the Italian army and ends up in a Nazi concentration camp, where he learns to survive at any cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVGies, Miep
Summary: An autobiography by the woman who helped hide the Frank family in Amsterdam during World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5315 GIEGies, Miep.
Summary: While most are familiar with Anne Frank's diary, fewer remember the courage of the people who helped her family. Otto Frank's employee, Miep Gies, coordinated the hiding place and worked through her own exhaustion and terror to keep the family safe and supplied with food and company. Barbara Rosenblat speaks with Gies's own voice, bringing an impeccable Dutch flavor to her words and flawlessly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio, LLC 2009
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Gies, Miep
Summary: Hiding Otto Frank and his family in an Amsterdam office building during World War II, Miep Gies shares a remarkable story of courage and devastation along with the special friendship of a young girl whose memory remains in hearts across the world.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Springwater 2008
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 GIEVasari, Giorgio
Summary: 120 full-color plates and 127 black and white illustrations. An extensive biography about the Italian Renaissance artists.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beaux Arts Editions 1986
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 GREPatrick, Seth
Summary: 13-year old piper Patch Brightwater is a boy in disgrace. Thrown in jail for playing a forbidden spell, he is no one's idea of a hero. But then he discovers a deadly truth--the evil Piper of Hamelyn is on the loose. With the help of Wren, a girl cursed to live as a rat, and Barver, a fire-breathing dracogriff, Patch must stop the Piper from sparking the biggest battle of them all.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC PATMoroder, Giorgio.
Contents: Flashdance-- what a feeling (Irene Cara) (3:53) -- He's a dream (Shandi Sinnamon) (3:28) -- Love theme from Flashdance (Helen St. John) (3:27) -- Manhunt (Karen Kamon) (2:36) -- Lady, lady, lady (Joe Esposito) (4:09) --Imagination (Laura Branigan) (3:35) -- Romeo (Donna Summer) (3:13) -- Seduce me tonight (Cycle V) (3:31) -- I'll be here where the heart is (Kim Carnes) (4:36) -- Maniac (Michael...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Casablanca 1983
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC FLAParisi, Giorgio
Summary: "From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, an enlightening and personal journey into the practice of groundbreaking science. In a Flight of Starlings, already a #1 bestseller in his native Italy, celebrated physicist Giorgio Parisi guides us through his unorthodox yet exhilarating work: investigating the principles of physics by observing the flight of flocks of birds. Studying the movements...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.01 PARAngelini, Giorgio
Summary: Examines the history of the housing economy in the United States, and how race discrimination created different classes in the housing market.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OWNFaletti, Giorgio
Summary: In the seedy underworld of 1970s Milan, shortly after politician Aldo Moro's kidnapping by the Red Brigades terrorist group, Bravo, a caterer to the wealthy, has an affair with a mysterious woman only to find himself pursued by the authorities and organized crime bosses.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FALMoroder, Giorgio.
Contents: Chase. -- Love's theme. -- (Theme from) Midnight express. -- Istanbul blues. -- The wheel. -- Istanbul opening. -- Cacaphoney. -- (Theme from) Midnight express.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Casablanca Records and Filmworks 1978
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MIDSummary: As a career CIA operative, Bob Barnes begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to. An up-and-coming oil broker, Bryan Woodman faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with idealistic Gulf Prince Nasir al-Subaai. Corporate lawyer, Bennett Holiday faces a moral dilemma as he finesses the questionable merger of two powerful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SYRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SYRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Syriana 2006Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SYRCher
Contents: Woman's World (3:41) -- Take It Like A Man (4:10) -- My Love (3:31) -- Dressed To Kill (2:51) -- Red (3:06) -- Lovers Forever (4:01) -- I Walk Alone (3:23) -- Sirens (5:03) -- Favorite Scars (4:25) -- I Hope You Find It (3:46) -- Lie To Me (3:18).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2013
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Lupi, Giorgia
Summary: "In their year-long visual correspondence project, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian woman living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American woman living in London, capture the inherent poetry of that subjective selectivity. Each week, they jointly selected one aspect of daily life - from sleep to spending habits to mirror use - and depicted their respective experience of it in a hand-drawn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Misc LupiForni, Pier Massimo.
Summary: Presents real-world examples and strategic advice on how to conduct oneself when confronted with the rude behavior of others, in a guide that makes recommendations for breaking rude cycles by being both polite and assertive.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395 FORCher
Contents: Believe -- The power -- Runaway -- All or nothing -- Strong enough -- Dov'e l'amore -- Takin' back my heart -- Taxi taxi -- Love is the groove -- We all sleep alone.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK CHEFiver
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Redeye Distribution 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIVHawley, Jonathan Pier
Summary: "An insightful account of lifesaving services by US lightkeepers and surfmen who battled high winds and waves, frigid temperatures and icy shores during their mission to protect lives on Lake Michigan."--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mission Point Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4635 HAWBagnoli, Giorgio (EDT)
Summary: Giuseppe Verdi's operas have a special place in the hearts of audiences and in music history. They are grand in scale and yet intensely human in their ability to convey the joys and sorrows of ordinary people. Celebrated as a national treasure and venerated for his civic, historical, and musical influence, Verdi enjoyed an enviable and almost uninterrupted success with the public throughout his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amadeus Press 2014