Summary: A realistic drama depicting students at a Portland, Oregon high school before and during a tragic school shooting. Follows a young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch. Then follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then the other of the two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, who arrive inside the school and begin shooting. No...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

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Summary: An absorbing drama about a Belgian teenager who is gradually coming to understand the implications of his father making a living off of abusing illegal alien workers.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

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Summary: After being hired to investigate a possible murder cover up in a small town, Arthur -- a traumatized private eye with a penchant for conspiracy theories -- is plunged into a world of lies and deceit, seeing parallels between this death and the death of his daughter. Increasingly paranoid, Arthur's sanity is tested as he attempts to filter fact from fiction and solve the case, all the while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Summary: Follows the relationship between a teenage ski prodigy and her predatory instructor. In a breakthrough role, Noée Abita plays 15-year-old Lyz, a high school student in the French Alps who has been accepted to an elite ski club known for producing some of the country's top professional athletes. Taking a chance on his new recruit, ex-champion turned coach Fred decides to mold Lyz into his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Blue Dirt (Musical group)

Contents: Cruz'n 4 a bruz'n -- Sour grapes -- Rusty cage -- You're here... it's now! -- So long -- 10$ky -- Gonna find my money -- RU ready 4 this? -- Walking treasure -- Feeling as a child -- All in your mind -- Close your eyes.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: [S.N.]

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Blue Dirt Band

Contents: You're here...It's now! -- Down at the mill -- Ghost of the Mississippi -- The Light! -- Church by noon -- Say anything -- Sultans of swing -- Take it with me -- Bottles break -- Sierra Madres

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Dirt Band

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Contents: Wayfaring pilgrim / Ola Belle Reed (4:29) -- Free a little bird / Bascom Lamar Lunsford (2:42) -- Cripple creek / Mike Seeger with Etta Baker (1:54) -- Cindy / George Pegram and Red Parham (1:55) -- And am I born to die / Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton (3:30) -- Poor soldier / Ginny Hawker (2:45) -- Wild rose of the mountain / J.P. Fraley (2:11) -- Times are not what they used to be / Ginny...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2004

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: "A young Jewish man, Holocaust survivor, and Israeli freedom fighter named Elisha holds an English officer captive. One of his fellow freedom fighters has been executed by the British, so Elisha plans to murder his prisoner at dawn in retribution. But as the hours pass, Elisha struggles with guilty feelings. Haunted by his past and wrestling with his God, he grow increasingly troubled as the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: "Magnificent insights into the lives of biblical prophets and kings, Talmudic sages, and Hasidic rabbis, from one of the world's most honored and beloved teachers. From a multitude of sources, Elie Wiesel culls facts, legends, and anecdotes to give us fascinating portraits of notable figures throughout Jewish history--from the Kingdom of Israel in the ninth century B.C.E. to nineteenth-century...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2021

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Wiesel, Elie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Notre Dame Press 1978

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: In this unforgettable book, the award-winning writer, during his recovery after a life-threatening heart surgery, reflected on his many losses and accomplishments, and on all that remained to be done, sharing his aspirations for his writings and his hope that he made the world a better place.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: Ruminating on his past relationships with the men in his family, New York city theater critic Yedidyah is assigned to cover the murder trial of a German expatriate whose enigmatic plea triggers Yedidyah's own revelations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010

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De 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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Summary: James Gregory is a racist South African guard whose certainties of life are shaken to the core. During a twenty year span, James spent his time as Nelson Mandela's prison warden. Shows the daily application of a major historic abonimation, known as Apartheid, as seen through the eyes of the average White South African. These are 'ordinary' people who are neither heroes nor villains, but obtuse...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2008

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Wiesel, Elie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2006

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: It's 1975, and Shaltiel Feigenberg, a professional storyteller and writer, has been taken hostage. He has been abducted from his home in Brooklyn, New York, blindfolded and tied to a chair in a dark basement. His captors, an Arab and an Italian, don't explain why Shaltiel has been chosen, just that his life will be bartered for the freedom of three Palestinian prisoners. As his days of waiting...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Wiesel, Elie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point 2002

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Wiesel, Elie

Summary: Three works deal with a concentration camp survivor, a hostage holder in Palestine, and a recovering accident victim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 1990

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Summary: It's been two years since Leo Barnes stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan, his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets the poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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Blas, Terry

Summary: ""Viva La Huelga! Viva La Causa!" Discover the true story behind Cesar Chavez and the Delano Grape Strike, as he and the National Farm Workers Association set out on an incredible three-hundred-mile protest march in support of farmworkers' rights."--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021

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Summary: A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Mystal, Elie

Summary: "According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First Amendment allows religious fundamentalists to discriminate against gay people who like cake. They're wrong when they tell you the Second Amendment protects the right to own a private arsenal. They're wrong when they say the death penalty isn't cruel or unusual punishment, and they're wrong when...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2022

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