Summary: Depicts people's opinions and thoughts worldwide on Election Day, 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president. All segments were filmed between 8:00 a.m. EST on November 4, 2008 and 4:00 a.m. EST on November 5, 2008, and were filmed by friends of the producer and submitted to him for editing / compilation.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Bev Pictures 2010

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

Summary: In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2013

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIS

Summary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc I

Summary: Trapped in a Polish ghetto with thousands of other Jews facing starvation or deportation to the death camps, Jacob is detained one evening at the local Gestapo headquarters. Eavesdropping, he overhears a radio report about a nearby Russian victory. At first he is silent, but circumstances compel him to pass on the good news of hope. A simple, somewhat dour man, the stubble-bearded Jacob...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Icestorm International 1999

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JAC

Kurtz, Jane

Summary: "Discover the true story of the race between two paleontologists to find dinosaur fossils in this nonfiction picture book. O. C. Marsh and Edward Cope met in 1863 and bonded over their shared love of fossils, becoming the best of friends. Until one day Marsh discovered an error in Cope's work, and the Bone Wars began! Marsh and Cope raced each other around the world, excavating fossils and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 560.92 KUR

Summary: Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RES

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

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

Summary: Devoted wife Ruby drops out of medical school after her husband Derek receives an eight-year prison sentence, and struggles to find the courage to remain faithful and supportive as the demands of being a prison wife weigh heavily on her shoulders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2015

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

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: No statement of responsibility 1970

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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.1

Summary: Deanie is a beautiful and sensitive teenager who would do whatever her mother and her 1928 Kansas hometown find proper. Her boyfriend, Bud, has intense desires for Deanie and the two are very much in love. But, sexual pressures in society creates a rift in their relationship. She restrains herself while Bud acts on them, but with another girl. Bud's actions drive Deanie to madness. She is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Kode9.

Contents: Once in a while / Lone -- Revo / Aardvarck -- Blood Orange / Kode9 -- You don't wash (dub) (DJ-Kicks) / Kode9 -- Phat si / Cooly G -- Bellion / ILL Blu -- Heston / Ikonika -- Jelly roll / Scratcha Dva -- Different lekstrix / Mr Mageeka -- Move down low / Grievous Angel -- Look pon me (feat. Natalie Storm) / Sticky -- Jumeirah riddim sequel / Sticky -- Pleaze mugwanti / Mujava -- Natty / Dva --...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 2010

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC KOD

Summary: Chronicles the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed the future First Lady, Michelle Robinson, on an epic first date across Chicago's South Side.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLI

Crichton, Michael

Summary: A tale set in the Wild West during the golden age of fossil hunting follows the exploits of two ambitious paleontologists who sabotage each others' careers in a rivalry that came to be known as the Bone Wars.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRI

Bottletop Band (Musical group)

Contents: Intro -- Voices -- End is the beginning -- One in a million -- Be together -- Fall of rome -- Insisto -- You'll get nothing -- Dream service -- Mana -- A Message.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Bottletop Trading Limited

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

Contents: Tall pines / Laurie Lewis -- It rains everywhere I go / Lynn Morris -- I'll stay around / Alecia McRight -- I wonder where you are tonight / Jeannie Kendall -- Leaving the land / Suzanne Thomas -- Pretending I don't care / Rhonda Vincent -- Don't neglect the rose / Ginny Hawker -- Love me or leave me alone / Hazel Dickens -- Hideaway / Kathy Kallick with Laurie Lewis -- Who's crying for you now...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY OSI

Summary: The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called 'the most powerful movie musical ever made.' Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, it captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscarʼ- nominated...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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

Summary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLI

Summary: From dusk till dawn (107 min.): The notorious Gekko Brothers, Seth and Richard, are on the run and headed for Mexico to meet with the mysterious "Carlos." Their simple bank robbery ended up killing multiple Texas Rangers. They hijack the mobile home of Minister Jacob Fuller and his family to ensure their safe passage. Their appointed destination is a neon-covered topless bar catering to bikers...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2000

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