California connection.

Contents: Devil is disguise -- Letter from my darlin' -- A hundred years from now -- Unfaithful one -- Down the road -- I'd rather be alone -- Big spike hammer -- Please search your heart -- Hey lonesome -- I'm waiting to hear you call me darlin' -- Wall around your heart -- Come back darlin'.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1983

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Greater California

Contents: The appearing -- Missing summer -- Looking in -- May day -- Jersey Thursday -- In scarlet -- Patterns -- Reappearing -- Portuguese hall -- Somber wurlitzer..

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Earling Records 2005

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRE

Greater California

Contents: All the colors--Them the downs--Five senses--The foolish son--It's great--Charmer--The disappearing--Almost sunshine--Pacific Ave. Corridor--The soft lights

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Subtitled Audio 0000

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK GRE

Summary: This season, Red John strikes into the heart of the CBI. Ever since the serial killer murdered Patrick Jane's family, the California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic has become obsessed with finding the man who destroyed his life. But after a homicide suspect is set ablaze in his jail cell and a CBI agent is later framed as Red John, Patrick realizes his adversary is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2011

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEN

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MEN

Summary: Patrick Jane returns for Season Five of The Mentalist. Starring Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Simon Baker as the California Bureau of Investigation consultant and former faux-psychic obsessed with finding Red John, the serial killer who murdered his family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MEN

Summary: The FBI's masterfully manipulative criminal consultant Patrick Jane is back for the seventh and final season of the clever crime series. Now that Agent Teresa Lisbon and Jane have confessed their love for one another, they must find a way to be partners in both their professional and personal lives as they begin their new relationship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MEN

Summary: A retired US Marine general (Ed Harris) seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz with 81 tourists as hostages. His demand: restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations. A Navy SEAL team with support from an FBI chemical warfare expert (Nicolas Cage) and a former Alcatraz escapee (Sean Connery) assemble to penetrate the terrorists' defenses on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROC

Summary: "The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2009

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXI

Summary: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MUR

Choldenko, Gennifer

Summary: A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2009

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CHO

Summary: In 1962, three prisoners escaped from Alcatraz, a prison surrounded on all sides by the waters of San Francisco Bay, and disappeared. The fates of the three men have remained unknown to the present day. In this program, three scientists from the Netherlands employ 3D modeling technology to reconstruct the water currents of the day of the prison break in an attempt to uncover whether or not it...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ALC

Summary: Patrick Jane is a celebrity psychic whose wife and child are viciously murdered by an elusive serial killer called Red John. Devastated, Patrick admits his paranormal act is fake, renounces his earlier life and uses his astonishing skills of observation and analysis to help the California Bureau of Investigation. These talents make him appear psychically gifted and help him bring killers to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MEN

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MEN

Summary: Armed with a list of seven suspects confirmed by the killer himself, Patrick Jane and the CBI team are closing in on the elusive serial killer while continuing to solve California₂s most puzzling crimes. Could Red John be a cult leader? A ghoulish forensic analyst? A super-suspicious Homeland Security Agent? Or one of four law officials, including the director of the CBI himself? The identity...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MEN

Summary: Widescreen. Account of the only 3 men ever to escape from the infamous maximum security prison at Alcatraz.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESC

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heyday Books in conjunction with the California Council for the Humanities 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.403 GOL

Poor, Nigel

Summary: "From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this illuminating view of prison life, as told by presently and formerly incarcerated people. The United States locks up more people per capita than any other nation in the world--600,000 each year and 2.3 million in total. The acclaimed podcast Ear Hustle, named after the prison term for eavesdropping,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 POO

Summary: A searing indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Wolfe Video 2010

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EIG

Contents: Minnie the Moocher ; I. Mills, C. Calloway, C. Gaskill (Cab Calloway) -- Chicago breakdown / J. Morton (Louis Armstrong) -- It don't mean a thing (if it ain't got the swing) / D. Ellington ; I. Mills (Duke Ellington) -- Sugar foot stomp W. Melrose ; J. Oliver (Fletcher Henderson) -- I got rhythm / G Gershwin ; I. Gershwin (Don Redman).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MUS

Franklin, Aretha.

Contents: Mary, don't you weep / Inez Andrews (7:29) -- Precious Lord, take my hand / Thomas A. Dorsey ; You've got a friend / Carole King (5:34) -- Old landmark / A.M. Brunner (3:40) -- Give yourself to Jesus / Robert Fryson (5:16) -- How I got over / Clara Ward (4:22) -- What a friend we have in Jesus / traditional (6:03) -- Amazing grace / traditional (10:45) -- Precious memories / traditional (7:20)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1989

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3 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FRA

Harlow, Jay

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cole Group 1994

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 641.5959 HAR

WPA Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Southern California

Summary: Describes a pivotal moment in Los Angeles history, when writers like Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, and F. Scott Fitzgerald were creating the images and associations--and the mystique--for which the City of Angels is still known. Los Angeles in the 1930s a guide to the contemporary culture, with a brief L.A. history, revisiting the Spanish colonial period, the Mexican period, the brief...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979 FED

Summary: Chronicles a championship year for the Caltech Beavers, a team historically unaccustomed to winning.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Green Forest Films?] 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC QUA

Lewis, Brian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A/A Pub. 1987

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 Lewis