Summary: Sebastian travels by road from Oklahoma to Mexico to find his brother Nico and unveil their tragic family secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HITSummary: "Cloaked in the guise of a Japanese musical drama, The Mikado is a spoof of Victorian English society. Centered on Ko-Ko, a lowly tailor, it chronicles his transformation from prisoner in a country jail to the rank of Lord High Executioner. But Ko-Ko is plagued by a terrible quandary: the emperor has instructed him to produce a head -- or forfeit his own!"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the U.S. by Acorn Media 1999
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA MIKDion
Summary: A street poet and singer of extraordinary versatility, range, and resonance, Dion defined rock n' roll for a generation. Now he has returned to his deepest roots and influences to release his first blues album with mostly original songs.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Horizon 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIODion
Contents: Take it back (with Joe Bonamassa) -- Hey diddle diddle (with G.E. Smith) -- Dancing girl (with Mark Knopfler) -- If you wanna rock 'n' roll (with Eric Clapton) -- There was a time (with Peter Frampton) -- Cryin' shame (with Sonny Landreth) -- The night isyoung (with Joe Menza, Wayne Hood) -- That's what the doctor said (with Steve Conn) -- My stomping ground (with Billy F Gibbons) -- Angel in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Umgd 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIOauthor.
Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO
Summary: Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS TOPDion
Contents: Disc 1. The chosen few -- Out in Colorado -- We went away -- Tag along -- Tag along (alternate take) -- Santa Margerita -- Teenage Clementine -- Studio talk, Teen angel session -- Teen angel -- Studio talk, I wonder why session -- I wonder why -- I wonder why (alternate take) -- I can't go on (Rosalie) -- No one knows -- Don't pity me -- Just you -- A teenager in love -- A teenager in love...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Collectors' Choice Music 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIODion
Contents: Aces up your sleeve -- Can't go back to Memphis -- New York is my home (Dion & Paul Simon) -- The Apollo king -- Katie Mae -- I'm your gangster of love -- Ride with you -- I'm all rocked up -- Visionary heart -- I ain't for it.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIODion
Contents: Runaround Sue -- Lonely teenager -- The kissin' game -- Havin' fun -- Little Miss Blue -- The wanderer -- Tonight tonight -- My one and only love -- P.S. I love you -- One for my baby -- Close your eyes -- North east end of the corner -- Runaround Sue -- Little Diane -- In a room -- Ain't that better baby -- Baby what you want me to do -- Moon River -- Crying -- After the dance -- Somebody...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 1988
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIOMorris, Edmund
Summary: Edmund Morris writes about a man who was arguably the most famous in the world when he died in 1931, so revered for his perfection of the incandescent light bulb that President Hoover proposed darkening the entire United States for one minute on the night of his funeral. For the rest of the twentieth century, Edison's image, polished by his additional fame as the inventor of the phonograph, the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD B MORContents: Guitar rag (Roy Harvey & Jess Johnson) -- Bow wow blues (Allen Brothers) -- Cocaine (Dick Justice) -- Down South blues (Dock Boggs) -- Stackalee (Frank Hutchison) -- Mule skinner blues (Blue Yodel #8) (Jimmie Rodgers) -- Born in hard luck (Chris Bouchillon) -- Johnson City blues (Clarence Greene) -- If the river was whiskey (Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers) -- Buck Dancer's choice...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES ROUSummary: Four priests exiled to a small seaside town to atone for the sins of their pasts find their fragile stability disrupted by the arrival of a newly-disgraced companion in this taut blackly comic drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLUDion
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DIOSummary: Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie InSummary: In 1929, an impoverished fishing village father sells his nine-year-old daughter, Chiyo, to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and she becomes subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. As she grows older, her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo. She is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDSummary: In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy in Hatsumomo and she is rescued by Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Memoirs 2006Bigon, Mario.
Summary: Here is an entirely different kind of knot book! For the first time, here are step-by-step instructions that take full advantage of color photography to teach the art of tying knots. Unlike illustrations in other books, these pictures show every step looking over the shoulder of the tier -- the way you see the knot as you make it. And when two or more ropes are involved, they are color coded so...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Books 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 623.8 BIG1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.8882 BIG
Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robbed of his birthright, Arthur comes up the hard way in the back alleys of the city. Once he pulls the sword from the stone, he is forced to acknowledge his true legacy, whether he likes it or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KIN PG-13Summary: Candy manufacturer Willy Wonka has a contest and hides five golden tickets in five of his scrumptious candy bars. All five ticket winners get a free tour of the mysterious Wonka factory, as well as a lifetime supply of Wonka candy. Four of the children are nasty brats who are punished by Willie Wonka with various diabolical, but funny, methods. Only Charlie, a likeable child, wins the heart of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011