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Christy, June Cohen, Josh Coles, Joan. Cotter, John Percy, Benjamin Pérez-Cortés, AlejandroSummary: 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 BIRContents: Handclapping song (the Meters) -- Hip drop (the Explosions) -- Who's gonna help brother get further (Lee Dorsey) -- It's gonna rain (Gentleman June Gardner) -- Check your bucket (Eddie Bo) -- Big chief (Professor Longhair) -- Free, single, and disengaged (Huey "Piano" Smith & his Clowns) -- Can I be your squeeze (Chuck Carbo) -- Hercules (Aaron Neville) -- I've got reasons (Mary Jane Hooper) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Soul Jazz Records 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES NEWSummary: Where eagles dare: Commandos charged with freeing a U.S. general from an Alpine fortress should trust nothing -- including their own search-and-rescue orders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ESSSummary: When a drug bust goes wrong, ex-cop Danny Gallagher's quest for justice leads him to the car-bomb murder of a government official's wife. When Gallagher learns that the woman's secret lover was a seductive federal agent, he finds himself under fire. But from whom, his own cops, a vengeful drug lord, the CIA, or someone even more ruthless?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BENSummary: In 1931, Fernando, a handsome, young Spanish Civil War deserter who befriends a free-thinking artist, finds himself in a romantic dilemma when the artist's four beautiful daughters return to their country home. Which woman should he love?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AGEColes, Joan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brought to you by Chilton Marine 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8723 YamahaSummary: A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: "This inspiring and entertaining film chronicles Jobs' early days as a college dropout to his rise as the co-founder of Apple Computer, Inc. and forced retirement from the company. More than a decade later, Jobs returns and single-handedly sets a course that will turn the once-tiny startup into one of the world's most valuable companies. His epic journey blazes a trail that changes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOBCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JOB RATED PG-13Summary: As a Latin American nation nears collapse, idealistic policeman Agustin Rejas faces his greatest challenge: to catch the mysterious terrorist leader Ezequiel. Mass panic sets in as the terrorist attacks become more ferocious, and Rejas finds himself drawn to Yolanda, his daughter's beautiful ballet teacher. As the search for Ezequil comes nearer, he and Yolanda must choose between love, country...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANChristy, June
Contents: Interlude / Pete Rugolo ; Bob Russell (4:42) -- My one and only love / Guy Wood ; Robert Mellin (2:44) -- Lonely house / Kurt Weill ; Langston Hughes (4:04) -- Softly as in a morning sunrise / Sigmund Romberg ; Oscar Hammerstein II (2:11) -- The little star / Harold Miller ; Connie Pearce (3:05) -- Cry like the wind / Jule Styne ; Betty Comden ; Adolph Green (2:37) -- The magic gift / Arnold...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Records 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ CHRPérez-Cortés, Alejandro
Summary: "Ima and Coli Are the Tree That Was Never a Seed is Alejandro Pérez-Cortés's personal genesis of Colima, Mexico, published here in both English and Spanish. The tree is an element/character in the book that appears and disappears throughout. Some poems are set in an ancient pre-Hispanic Colima; others reflect the reality of a modern-day Colima, sadly stigmatized and eroded by violence...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 PERCohen, Josh
Summary: "Focusing on some of the best known characters in all of literature - chosen to trace the arc from childhood to old age - a brilliant psychoanalyst and professor of literature shows how our inner lives become at once stranger and more familiar when seen through the prism of fiction. In supple and elegant prose, and with all the expertise and insight of his dual profession, Josh Cohen...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 COHSummary: Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as Vincent van Gogh, torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LUSSummary: Join the Berenstain Bears, Papa, Mama, Brother and Sister, as they embark on many adventures. Brother and Sister learn simple life lessons and family values.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BERContents: El sombrero de tres picos. Suite no. 1 (11:00) ; Suite no. 2 (13:00) / Manuel de Falla (Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid ; Pedro de Freitas Branco, [conductor]) -- Concierto de Aranjuez. Adagio / Joaquín Rodrigo (Ernesto Bitetti, guitar ; Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid ; José Buenagu, [conductor]) (11:47) -- La procesión del Rocío / Joaquín Turina (Orquesta de Conciertos de Madrid ; Odón...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL MUSSummary: It tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAISummary: Alex Beck is a kindhearted pediatrician in Paris who goes out of his way to help the poor in the clinic where he works. Blissfully married to his childhood sweetheart Margot, she disappears (and he is left in a coma) while on vacation. On the eighth anniversary of her death, the police interrogate Alex after two bodies are unearthed near the site of her murder, along items that seem to connect...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by] Music Box Films 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TELCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TELSummary: The Master of Suspense is back with more twists, turns, and things that go bump in the night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY DEVICotter, John
Summary: "A devastating account of the author's experience with the debilitating condition known as Ménière's Disease that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COTTER, JOHN COTSummary: Within certain neighborhoods of Mexico, it's commonplace for children to come home to find their parents have been disappeared and they suddenly must flee with few supplies to fend for themselves as orphans. One special girl finds herself armed with three magical wishes, which attracts the attention of evil spirits. Haunted by ghosts and hunted by the cartel, she collects a group of allies and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIGSummary: Four decades ago, legions of young people trekked to San Francisco and its famed Haight Asbury district, the epicenter for the youth-driven counterculture revolution that was transforming American culture. They came for peace, politics, community, love...and they came for the music, the most enduring legacy of that very special place and time. It has proven to be the element that really tells...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007