Summary: Filmmaker Werner Herzog explores a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas and "probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills". Through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eights days of appearing on-screen), Herzog achieves what he describes as 'a gaze into the abyss of the human...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC INTGrimm, Jacob/ Jarrell, Randall (TRN)/ Buckert, Nancy (ILT)/ Grimm, Wilhelm
Summary: Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 1972
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 GRIBurke, Jason.
Summary: "Jason Burke is one of the world's leading experts on militant Islam. He embedded with the Kurdish peshmerga (currently at war with ISIS) while still in college. He was hanging out with the Taliban in the late 1990s. He witnessed the bombing of Tora Bora in Afghanistan in 2001 firsthand. With the current emergence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 BURSummary: Drone pilot and family man Neil has spent his career conducting deadly, covert missions overseas all from the comfort of his suburban hometown. When an enigmatic, Pakistani businessman shows up at his home seeking revenge, Neil must confront the consequences of his actions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DROSummary: The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2016Summary: When a second-rate cage fighter, Luke Wright, is tormented by the Russian Mafia and wanders the streets of New York, he witnesses a young Chinese girl, Mei, being pursued by the same mafia who want her for a priceless numerical code that they would kill for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAFSummary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOSummary: "The town Christmas forgot: An urban family that can not seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town's home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town's problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays. Naughty or nice: After she is suddenly fired from her job,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinedigm 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: Documentary celebrating the explosion of popular music that came out of LA's Laurel Canyon in the mid-'60s as folk went electric and the Byrds, the Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, and the Mamas and the Papas gave birth to the California Sound. Featuring Jakob Dylan, the film includes conversations and performances with Brian Wilson (the Beach Boys), Michelle Phillips (the Mamas & the Papas),...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC ECHContents: 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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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY FROSummary: The atomic brain: Inside an evil mansion, a mad scientist and an old woman hire three young women as servants. Grave robbing and forced brain transplants by atomic power add to the horror as the three women are chained to the devil's love lab ; The brain that wouldn't die: A crazed surgeon accidentally decapitates his attractive fiancée. He takes her head to his lab to keep if alive while he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CULContents: Classical gas (Mason Williams) -- A beautiful morning (the Rascals) -- Honey (Bobby Goldsboro) -- Love is blue (Paul Mauriat) -- Young girl (the Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett) -- Spooky (Classics IV) -- Harper Valley P.T.A. (Jeannie C. Riley) -- Abraham, Martin and John (Dion) -- Slip away (Clarence Carter) -- Hush (Deep Purple).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BILFry, Jason
Summary: Who is Darth Vader? How did the once great Jedi become a fearsome villain? Who are the allies and foes Darth Vader has faced? In this biography -- complete with black-and-white illustrations, timelines, and character profiles -- young readers will delight in learning the complete history of the Sith Lord.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED FRYJasmyn
Contents: Green nature -- Crystal ball -- Edge of time -- In the wild -- Blank paper -- Happy tarot -- Cruel moon -- Galaxy -- Killer instinct - Find the light -- Purple reflections.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES JASSummary: This documentary explores the powerful struggle of conscience experienced by several people from traditional farming backgrounds who come to question the basic assumptions of their way of life. A riveting story of transformation and healing, the documentary portrays the farmers' sometimes amazing connections with the animals under their care, while also providing insight into the complex web of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tribe of Heart 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media U.S. 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV RUTBurkett, Katherine
Summary: This comprehensive pack features 15 engaging topics ?including animal senses, dinosaurs, wild weather, earthquakes, forces, and properties of matter?that support the Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic comes in a self-contained folder with an anchor text for building background knowledge, multiple copies of two hands-on investigations, companion reproducible recording sheets,...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Parent Teacher Kits, Call number: JPT KIT SUPBurkett, Katherine
Summary: This comprehensive pack features 15 engaging topics including animal families, plant life cycle, clouds, volcanoes, sound, light and shadow?that support the Next Generation Science Standards. Each topic comes in a self-contained folder with an anchor text for building background knowledge, multiple copies of two hands-on investigations, companion reproducible recording sheets, management tips,...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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2 available in Parent Teacher Kits, Call number: JPT KIT SUPSummary: While his former Pink Floyd band-mates are now global superstars, Syd Barrett remains an enigma, and prior to his sad passing in 2006, was a complete recluse. But it was Syd who originally formed the group, and immediately became its chief songwriter and lead guitarist. Some would even claim he remained the force who dominated the band throughout its most creative period. Features rare live and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SYDJapan
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: [s.n] 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JAPSummary: During World War II, a South Seas wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as a sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their headmistress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Father 1964Iasos
Contents: I passion you a leap of love-flame -- Rainbow canyon -- The angels of comfort -- Blue fire realms -- Siren shallows -- Crystal petals -- Procession on the horizon -- The royal court of Goddess Vesta -- The winds of Olympus -- The descent of spring -- Cloud prayer -- Spring temple forest -- Crystal*White*Fire*Light.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Numero Group 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE IASJackson, Alan
Contents: Pop a top -- Farewell party -- Kiss an angel good mornin' -- Right in the palm of your hand -- The blues man (A tribute to Hank Williams, Jr.) -- Revenooer man -- My own kind of hat -- She just started liking cheatin' songs -- The way I am -- It must be love -- Once you've had the best -- Margaritaville / with Jimmy Buffett.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: BMG Entertainment 1999