Summary: When an electrical storm transports the nuclear-powered U.S.S. Nimitz back in time, hours before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the crew must decide between allowing the attack to take place and preventing it, which would forever change history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground, Inc. 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Final 2004Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI FINSummary: 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 VINContents: Out of the past (fullscreen presentation, 97 min.) -- Angel face (fullscreen presentation, 92 min.) -- Home from the hill (widescreen presentation, 150 min.) -- The sundowners (widescreen presentation, 133 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: 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: 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: Sarah Jarosz continues to avoid a creative rut with her second album, which showcases her expansive and vital approach to acoustic music. Along with original songs, the album features a cover of the Radiohead track The Tourist as well as Bob Dylan's Ring Them Bells.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK JARWard, Peter D. (Peter Douglas)
Summary: "In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately explain how rapidly species re-diversified and repopulated after mass extinctions. Now advances...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 572 WARSummary: A man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI LOCThomas, Prins.
Contents: Disc 1 Forever more pt. III / Turns -- Galatea's guitar / Gabor Szabo -- Drum odyssey / Brian Bennett -- Ibiza / Aqua Bazzino -- Vin / Claude Speeed -- Ma holo / Sun Araw -- Samba trip / Richard Schneider Jr. -- Starship 109 / Mistral -- Weggeputscht / Durian Brothers -- Lamuka / Azaou Bikaye & Cy1 -- El Amarna / Berliner Ring -- Dalbouka / C. Cat Trance -- Scandinavian bellydance / Split...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Eskimo 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD ELECTRONIC THOWard, Peter Douglas
Contents: What is life? -- What is earth life? -- Life as we do not know it -- A recipe book of life -- The artificial synthesis of life -- Are there aliens already on earth? -- Panspermia: why there may be aliens throughout the solar system -- Mercury and Venus -- Fossils on the moon -- Mars -- Europa -- Titan -- Implications, ethics, and dangers -- A manifesto: send paleontologists to Mars and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 576.8 Ward,Ward, Peter Douglas
Summary: Presents the results of his investigations into the history of life and death on earth, describing three previous mass extinctions and evaluating the present devastation in which countless species are coming to the end of their evolution due to human action. --Book News, Inc.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.84 WARSummary: Detective Hannah Laing becomes deeply conflicted when she discovers her son is playing a crucial role as an undercover informant in the investigation of a brutal murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Before 2022Ward, Peter Douglas
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 525.01 WARContents: 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: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: 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 FROSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIRSummary: Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of a three day pass: An African-American soldier stationed in France is granted a promotion and a three-day leave from base and heads to Paris, where he finds whirlwind romance with a white woman--but what happens to their love when his furlough is over?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE MELSummary: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing and nobody stand in his way. Now he's broke and needs the help of the very people he used and betrayed on his climb to the top.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020