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Backyard gardens Comic books, strips, etc Calhoun, Ada Criminal investigation Criminal investigation California Los Angeles Drama Love United States Marriage United States Pandas Comic books, strips, etc Spouses United States Vampires California Los Angeles Drama Zola, Émile 1840-1902 DramaSummary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRAKing, Kaki.
Contents: Frame (2:04) -- Playing with pink noise (3:02) -- Ingots (3:53) -- Doing the wrong thing (5:04) -- Solipsist (2:30) -- Neanderthal (4:28) -- Can the gwot save us? (4:20) -- Lies (4:55) -- All the landslides birds have seen since the beginning of the world (2:42) -- Magazine (4:08) -- My insect life (10:34).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Red Ink/Epic 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KINCalhoun, Mary.
Summary: When he becomes lost in the mountains, a cat with the unusual ability of walking on two legs finds his way home on cross-country skis.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 1979
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CALCalhoun, Mary.
Summary: Although Henry the cat learns tightrope walking only to impress the humans in his family, who have stopped paying attention to him because of their new puppy, his skill comes in handy when the puppy gets stranded on a high ledge.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow Junior Books 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROWurth, Erika T.
Summary: "White Horse is a gritty, vibrant debut from Erika T. Wurth about an Indigenous woman who must face her past when she discovers a bracelet haunted by her mother's spirit. Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC WURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WURSummary: Powell and Pressburger merge film with opera and dance to tell the tale of a poet who dreams of three women who all break his heart. He tells "the three tales of my folly of love"--In Paris, when he fancied himself in love with Olympia, who turned out to be a life-sized doll; in Venice, when bewitched by a beautiful courtesan; and on a Grecian isle, in love with daughter of a singer and conductor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TALDalhous.
Contents: First Page from Justine -- A Communion with These People -- Function Curve -- Sensitised to This Area -- Lovers of the Highlands -- Four Daughters by Four Women -- Her Mind Was a Blank -- Transference -- To Be Universal You Must Be Specific -- Someone Secure -- Entertain the Idea -- Abyssal Plane -- Thoughts Out of Season -- DSM-III -- Masquerading as Love. A disc of electronica.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackest Ever Black 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC DALSummary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: Mick St. John is a private investigator 'living' in Los Angeles. Mick's bride turned him into a vampire on the couple's wedding night fifty-five years earlier. In the present day, he struggles with his love for a mortal woman, his dealings with other vampires and other criminal elements.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MOOCathon
Summary: "It's a beautiful day in the garden when Poppy and her friend Sam (a panda bear) hear a commotion nearby. Basil is crying, for someone has nibbled the leaves of his crown! But not to worry - Poppy is on the case. Putting their detective skills to work, Poppy and Sam try to catch the thief red-handed, but the friends fall asleep during the stakeout. They attempt to trap the culprit by spreading...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 CATCathon
Summary: "Winter is coming, and Poppy and Sam's tiny garden neighbors are getting ready to hibernate. After stocking their pantries for the colder days ahead, Poppy and Sam settle in for a long winter's nap as well. But what is Poppy doing wrong? She can't sleep and nothing seems to work! Determined to hibernate like her friends, Poppy sets out with Sam to ask the other creatures for their deep-sleep...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Swedish policeman is confronted by criminal activities on the island Gotland. After the death of her husband, Maria moves to the picturesque Swedish island of Gotland with her two children to start over. While struggling to raise two children on her own and still mourning her husband's death, Maria manages to sustain her female perspective and approach to life in a harsh and male dominated...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARBrin, Geri
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sixth&Spring Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 BRICalhoun, Jim.
Contents: Introduction: Above the rim -- Winning every day -- Standards, then victories -- Mind games, or how to be a total motivator -- Flexible thinking and the power of plan B -- Tough in the clutch -- Mountaintop management -- The woman in section 114.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.4 CALSummary: A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Vessel Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VERCalhoun, Ada
Summary: Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which the first twenty years are the hardest.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 306.8 CALSummary: In this world, each emoji has only one facial expression, except for Gene, who is bursting with multiple expressions. Determined to become normal, Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 and Jailbreak. Together, these unlikely heroes embark on an epic app-venture through the apps on the phone, each its own wild and fun world, to find the code that will fix Gene!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD EMO RATED PGSummary: Several convicts from a high-security prison escape the inhumane treatment of Chief Guard Ranken and break out into the icy Alaskan wilderness. The cons flee onto a departing freight train only to find themselves prisoners on a speeding train that is hurtling toward certain derailment, its conductor dead of a sudden heart attack.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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Summary: "Calhoun presents an unflinching but also loving portrait of her own marriage, opening a long-overdue conversation about the institution as it truly is: not the happy ending of a love story or a relic doomed by high divorce rates, but the beginning of a challenging new chapter of which 'the first twenty years are the hardest'"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Calhoun, Ada
Summary: Ada Calhoun provides a funny (but not flip), smart (but not smug) take on the institution of marriage. Weaving intimate moments from her own married life with frank insight from experts, clergy, and friends, she upends expectations of total marital bliss to present a realistic-but ultimately optimistic-portrait of what marriage is really like.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.8 CALCalhoun, Kenneth.
Summary: Insomnia has claimed everyone Biggs knows. Even his beloved wife, Carolyn, has succumbed to the telltale red-rimmed eyes, slurred speech and cloudy mind before disappearing into the quickly collapsing world. Yet Biggs can still sleep, and dream, so he sets out to find her.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CALSummary: The third series aired as a five episode serial. The Torchwood team is faced with their fiercest threats to date-- one which throws the future of Torchwood and the entire human race spiraling into danger. They battle against the odds but do they stand a chance of saving mankind?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009