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Dakota Indians Wars, 1890-1891 Drama Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Drama Lady Hamilton, Emma 1761?-1815 Drama Lady Nelson, Frances 1761-1831 Drama Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 Proposed invasion of England, 1793-1805 Drama Rhythm and blues music Soul music United States Viscount Nelson, Horatio Nelson 1758-1805 Drama World musicSummary: Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz's writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger, and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MASCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MASKira Kira
Contents: Call it music -- Warmer than the sun -- Blue my mind -- Laniakea -- Beautiful time -- Suikinkutsu -- Puretone -- Magic acid -- Space elevator
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arabesque
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC IRRGirma Bèyènè.
Contents: Tewèdjign endèhu (Ahun negèrign) (3:34) -- Ené nègn bay manèsh (4:21) -- Muziqawi silt (6:25) -- Enkèn yèlélèbesh (3:58) -- Feqer endė krar (Yebèqangnal) (3:52) -- Bèmèlkesh aydėlėm (9:28) -- Mėslogn nébér (3:34) -- Fetsum fetsum (Tirulegn tolo) (2:50) -- For amha (5:55) -- Sét alamenem (5:13) -- Wub nat (3:58) -- Mèlèwètesh menèw (6:20) -- Tsegérèda (3:52) -- Tewėdjign endėhu (Ahun negėrign)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Buda Musique 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN GIRGirma, Haben
Summary: Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GIRMA, HABEN GIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B GIRMA GIRSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIRAira, César
Summary: "In César Aira's new novel, Fulgentius, a sixty-seven-year-old imperial Roman general-"Rome's most illustrious and experienced"-is sent to pacify the remote province of Pannonia. He is a thoughtful, introspective person, a saturnine intellectual who greatly enjoys being on the march away from his loving family, and the sometimes deadly intrigues of Rome. Fulgentius is also a playwright (though...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions Publishing Corporation 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRAira, César
Summary: "An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter is the story of a moment in the life of the German artist Johann Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858). Greatly admired as a master landscape painter, he was advised by Alexander von Humboldt to record the spectacular landscapes of Chile, Argentina, and Mexico. Rugendas did in fact become one of the best of the nineteenth-century European painters to venture...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AIRThomas, Irma.
Contents: Ask what you will (5:32) -- I know prayer changes things (3:35) -- Careful hands (6:42) -- Hold to God's unchanging hand (3:09) -- No, not one (7:16) -- I will say yes Lord (4:01) -- Walk around heaven all day (3:10) -- Oh, holy night (4:58) -- Just a little while to stay here (3:21) -- Where we'll never grow old (5:52).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS ThomaMehta, Mira
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1990
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Summary: "Brain surgeon Thomas Eapen's decision to shorten his visit to his mother's home in India has consequences that reverberate two decades later as he starts conversing with the dead and daughter Amina must sort through the family's past to help him."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JACSethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETJOYCE, IRMA
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1967
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FIC JOYThomas, Irma.
Contents: My heart's in Memphis -- Keep it simple -- Not enough time to change -- If you want it, come and get it -- Blue in the heart -- I'm your puppet -- Irma's song -- Life at the end of the road -- I do -- Woman left lonely -- Hurtin' for certain -- Joke is on you -- Zero willpower.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES THOThomas, Irma.
Contents: The new rules -- Gonna cry 'til my tears run dry -- I needed somebody -- Good things don't come easy -- The love of my man -- One more time -- Thinking of you -- The wind beneath my wings (Hero) -- I gave you everything -- Yours until tomorrow.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES THOObolensky, Kira.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 728.98 OBOSummary: Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. After only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down to a dead stop. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialists. A master at seducing and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: At the end of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and former Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) lead their men into Mexico to begin a new life. Caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces, they find themselves fighting side by side and must forge an uneasy friendship in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UNDSummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV IGira, M. (Michael)
Contents: Disc one. Hums ; Annaline ; The hanging man ; Amnesia ; Leaving meaning ; Sunfucker -- Disc two. Cathedrals of heaven ; The nub ; It's coming it's real ; Some new things ; What is this? ; My phantom limb.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SWASicile-Kira, Chantal.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Pub. Group 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Parents Sicile-KiraSummary: By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BURKniivila, Irma
Summary: "When a machine boy falls to earth, his heart is awoken for the first time. As he learns to be human, he struggles to override his own programming and become a hero, from rising stars Tri Vuong and Irma Kniivila. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's... Machine Boy! When Machine Boy falls from the sky into the domed city of Mega 416, he leaves a wake of destruction in his path... until Karate Grandpa...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics/Skybound Comet 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KNICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VUOThomas, Irma.
Contents: All I know is the way I feel -- I count the teardrops -- The new rules -- The story of my life -- Love don't change (with Tracy Nelson) -- I never fool nobody but me -- I needed somebody -- Old records -- Heart full of rain -- If you want it, come and get it -- Hold me while I cry -- Love of my man -- Yield not to temptaion (with Marcia Ball and Tracy Nelson) -- You can think twice -- Sorry...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2001