Summary: Commercial motion pictures were invented at the Edison Laboratory between 1888 and 1893. Perhaps none of the component parts were strictly new, but the ability of Edison and his staff to reorganize them for a specific purpose was an extraordinary cultural achievement. In 1894, Edison was the sole producer of motion pictures in the world. Many Edison films continue to be impressive as the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005

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

Dedman, Bill.

Summary: "When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed a property listing for a grand estate that had been unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled into one of the most surprising American stories of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Empty Mansions is a rich tale of wealth and loss, complete with copper barons, Gilded Age opulence, and backdoor politics. At its heart is a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, HUGUETTE DED

Summary: When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SPI

Green, Grant.

Contents: He's a real gone guy / Nellie Lutcher (5:17) -- Seepin' / Grant Green (11:45) -- Just friends / J. Klenner, S. Lewis (6:35) -- Grant's first stand / Grant Green (8:49) -- Sonnymoon for two / Sonny Rollins (6:14) -- Woody 'n' you (take 4) / Dizzy Gillespie (5:54) -- Woody 'n' you (take 7) (5:53).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ GRE

Rollins, Sonny.

Contents: The last time I saw Paris / Hammerstein, Kern (2:52) -- Just in time / Cahn, Styne (3:55) -- Toot, toot, tootsie / Kahn, Erdman, Russo (4:20) -- What is there to say / Harburg, Duke (4:52) -- Dearly beloved / Mercer, Kern (3:00) -- Ev'ry time we say goodbye / Cole Porter (3:20) -- Cutie / Sonny Rollins (5:50) -- It could happen to you / Burke, Van Heusen (3:43) -- Mangoes / Wayne, Libby (5:30)...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverside 1987

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ROL

Contents: Avalon / Jolson, De Sylva, V. Rose (3:22) -- Body and soul / Sour, Heyman, J.W. Green (4:55) -- Bass-ment / D. Ellington (3:01) -- Early autumn / R. Burns, Herman (3:08) -- Jones / C. Terry, D. Ellington (2:53) -- Perdido / Drake, Lengstelder, Tizol (2:48) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (5:05) -- Spacemen / D. Ellington (2:31) -- Midnight sun / F.J. Burke, Hampton (3:36) -- Take the "A" train...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ ELL

Summary: The Complete Season 7 brings an explosive end to the series with 22 consistently riveting episodes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2005

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

Summary: The story of in inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Television Studios 2002

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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SHI

Summary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013

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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUB

Black, Saul.

Summary: "When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Black 2015

Various artists

Contents: Lose control (Missy Elliott feat. Ciara and Fat Man Scoop) -- Don't phunk with my heart (Black Eyed Peas) -- Don't cha (Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes) -- Pon de replay (Rihanna) -- Pimpin' all over the world (Ludacris feat. Bobby Valentino) -- Like you (Bow Wow feat. Ciara) -- I think they like me (remix) (Dem Franchize Boyz feat. Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat & Bow Wow) -- Cater 2 u (Destiny's...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: UMG Recordings 2005

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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOW

Summary: Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer: a misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR