Dorra, Henri

Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.4 DOR

Summary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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

Summary: Ingrid lithe, beautiful, and married to an up-and-coming architect, is a woman contending with the recent loss of vision. While attempting to navigate a world without sight, she spends her days reconstructing the visual world by writing salacious stories that slowly morph into fantasies about her husband and other characters that may or may not actually exist. When real-life crashes into...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: As the dust settles from the explosive finale of the first series, Aksel has the answer he so desperately sought. Finally, his search for justice appears to be over and his reconciliation within the local community can begin. But Aksel's hopes are short-lived. As Eva and William close ranks and deny the truth, a new struggle begins for Aksel.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Russell, Mary Doria

Summary: The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade. The place is Dodge City, Kansas, a saloon-filled cow town jammed with liquored-up adolescent cowboys and young Irish hookers. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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

Contents: v. 1. (1934-1945) The continental / Fred Astaire -- Lullaby of Broadway / Dick Powell -- The way you look to-night / Fred Astaire -- Sweet Leilani / Bing Crosby -- Thanks for the memory / Bob Hope & Shirley Ross -- Over the rainbow / Judy Garland -- When you wish upon a star / Cliff Edwards -- The last time I saw Paris / Kate Smith -- White Christmas / Bing Crosby -- You'll never know / Dick...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 1995

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ENV

Summary: Quietly in their sleep : Mysterious deaths in a Venice retirement community are brought to Inspector Brunetti's attention by a young nun who is then nearly killed herself. Brunetti's investigation turns up some unsettling connections to a secret church organization and to one of its charismatic members, a priest who is the community's resident confessor.--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MHz Networks Home Entertainment 2011

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

Summary: When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BAT

Tenci

Contents: Earthquake -- Hair sticks -- Serpent -- Blue spring --Forgot my horse's name -- Joy -- Joy2 -- No wings -- My heart is an open field

Format: sound recording-musical

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

Summary: 19 Arab women journalists speak out about what it's like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2019

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 070.4082 OUR

Summary: Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2023

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HORROR HAU
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD

Summary: Anthony Doerr and series editor, Heidi Pitlor, select twenty stories that represent the best examples of the form published in 2018.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BES

Summary: In the late 60s music began to evolve into a heavier sound. With blues-inspired, guitar-driven sound and trippy lyrics, this new hard rock soared to the top of the charts. Includes Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Standing Room Only 2004

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SIX

Summary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007

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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VIN

Summary: Did Henry Kissinger sabatoge the 1968 Vietnam peace talks for his own personal gain? Did he orchestrate the secret bombing of Cambodia? Did he authorize covert operations to overthrow a Chilean President? This explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful and controversial figures in United States history.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003

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

Summary: An epic three-part series that charts the rise and fall of the Boleyn family. This story of love, sex, betrayal and obsession is told from the unique perspective of the Boleyn family.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BOL

Corrs.

Contents: Disc 1 Runaway -- Dreams -- What can I do -- Irresistible -- I never loved you anyway -- Love to love you -- Forgiven not forgotten -- Leave me alone -- Secret life -- Right time -- Heaven knows -- Someday -- Closer -- When he's not around -- Don't say you love me -- Love gives love takes -- Hopelessly addicted -- Erin Shore (Intrumental).

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1990

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

Summary: Join the four best friends as they finish their first year of college and dive into a summer of excitement. Bridget journeys to Turkey on an archeological dig. Carmen plunges into the hectic, creative world of summer theater in Vermont. Lena discovers new love and old heartbreak at the Rhode Island School of Design. Tibby takes a big step in her relationship with Brian in the Big Apple.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SIS

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sisterhood 2008

Summary: Spot wants to be a boy so much that he dresses up and goes to school, and gets great grades. All this is much to the chagrin of his owner, Leonard. Disguised as his human alter ego, Scott, Spot heads to Florida in the hope of being transformed by a mad scientist, but the transformation proves more complicated than Spot ever expected. The problem is he is a man not a boy! When he meets his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TEA

Summary: The migration of the Joad family to California from their dust-bowl farm in Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

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 GRA

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grapes

Contents: Antidote / Chick Corea, Rubén Blades (9:14) -- Duende / Chick Corea (10:13) -- The yellow nimbus, part 1 / Chick Corea (5:47) -- The yellow nimbus, part 2 / Chick Corea (5:57) -- Prelude to my Spanish heart / Chick Corea (1:11) -- My Spanish heart / Chick Corea (6:57) -- Armando's rhumba / Chick Corea (8:02) -- Desafinado / Antônio Carlos Jobim, Newton Ferreira de Mendonça (5:04) -- Zyryab /...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: "Henry Graham is a man with a problem: he has run through his entire inheritance and is completely unequipped to provide for himself. His childhood guardian, Uncle Harry, refuses to give him a dime, so Henry devises a plan with the help of his imaginative butler to make his money the old-fashioned way--he can marry it."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NEW

Villa-Lobos, Heitor.

Contents: Overture -- Deep in the forest -- Excitement among the Indians -- First bird song -- Nature's dance -- Second bird song -- Vocalise -- Sails -- On the way to the hunt -- Third bird song -- Twilight song -- The Indian's in search of the girl -- Fourth bird song -- Rima's music -- Vocalise -- Head hunters -- Love song -- Sentimental melody -- Forest fire -- Finale.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Delos 2001

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL VIL