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De Blij, Harm J. Fitz Fitz, Caitlin Fitz, Florian David Welch, Linda Margaret Farr.Summary: Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SPESummary: "Pitch black": Journey to a remote, hostile planet with a group of marooned passengers who learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. ""Dark fury": Riddick battles ruthless soldiers of fortune and vicious creatures. "The chronicles of Riddick": Riddick finds himself humanity's unlikely champion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI RIDFitz
Contents: Head up high -- Spaceman -- Congratulations -- Still cool -- Jump -- I need a dancefloor -- The list -- Somebody sometimes -- Slowdown -- Speed -- Piñata -- House party -- Little champion -- Zig zag.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FITSummary: In spite of his stuttering problem, the high school debate team star invites Hal to join the team. Stumbling his way to the championship, Hal falls in love, gains confidence, and ultimately realizes that love and life should not be rocket science.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROC
Contents: Before this time / Ollabelle (2:17) -- It just suits me / Hobart Smith & Bessie Jones (2:20) -- I saw the light / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (3:44) -- Farther along / Ralph Stanley & Lucinda Williams (4:21) -- Cuckoo's nest / Nickel Creek (2:18) -- Sherburne / Alabama Sacred Harp Convention (2:00) -- Make me a pallet on your floor / Gillian Welch (2:42) -- When God dips His pen of love in my heart...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: NPR 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY ISummary: An American tail: While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must relocate them while trying to survive in a new country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CINCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CINSummary: Their only enemy is the status quo. Their only friend is chaos. Trace the origins of the deadly drug Supercool; see Jesus in strange places; deal with an infestation of Friars; and use way too many ninja throwing stars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UPRWelch, Linda Margaret Farr.
Summary: Transcribed from original letters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Linda M. F. Welch 0000
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FRENCH WelchSummary: Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: One of the earliest and best-loved films of this period in his career, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director's roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer and a beautiful but icy ingenue, based, in a sly gender reversal, on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BITSummary: Kevin Hart follows up his 2013 hit stand-up concert movie Let Me Explain, with this record-setting performance filmed in front of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS KEVFitz, Caitlin
Summary: "A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 FITSummary: Rebecca, a young translator, lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. RenGe, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local farmer Theo, whose daughter is almost killed. RenGe suffers amnesia as a result of a crash and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINDe Blij, Harm J.
Summary: In recent years a spate of books and articles have argued that the world today is so mobile, so interconnected and so integrated that it is, in one prominent assessment, flat. But as Harm de Blij contends in The Power of Place, geography continues to hold billions of people in an unrelenting grip. We are all born into natural and cultural environments that shape what we become, individually and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 DE BSummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK LOVSummary: The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the fascinating life of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The cast includes John Le Carre, psychologist Kay Jamison, critic David Lodge, Time correspondent Bernard Diederich, former CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, and Greene's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV DANSummary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: 1922. Six months after Matthew's tragic death, his loss is still felt throughout Downton Abbey. Mary struggles to face a new future with her fatherless child, and is encouraged by the family to pick up the pieces. Accepting a new role on the estate, the now-eligible Mary also finds herself the reluctant object of attention from a number of eager suitors. With the twenties in full swing and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOW1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW RATED NR
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2013Summary: The year is 1925. Momentous changes threaten the great house, its owners, and its servants, while past scandals continue to loom. Return to the sumptuous setting of Downton Abbey for the sixth and final season to discover what will finally become of the Crawley family, and the servants who work for them, as they face new challenges and begin forging different paths in a rapidly changing world....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATEDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2016Fitz, Florian David
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOWSummary: V.3 Goldfinger : From the opening bomb blast outside a steamy nightclub to a last-minute escape from the president's personal jet, James Bond's third screen adventure is an exhilarating, pulse-pounding thrill-ride! Sean Connery returns as Agent 007 and faces off with a maniacal villain bent on destroying all the gold in Fort Knox - and obliterating the world economy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC, and United Artists 2006