Summary: Explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. From the tents of carnie roadshows of the early 20th century to "Nudie Cuties," blood-soaked gore fests, biker flicks, blaxploitation and beyond. Looks at the films, the filmmakers, shysters and hustlers who made it all happen. Includes over 2 hours of outtakes, classic grindhouse trailers, and long lost, never-before-seen...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LONCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONSummary: The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival to navigate her way through the deadliest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE ATOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ATOSummary: A group of women decides to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bombshell 2020Summary: When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TULCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TULDrenge
Contents: Introduction -- Running wild -- Never awake -- We can do what we want -- Favourite son -- The snake -- Side by side -- The woods -- Undertow -- Standing in the cold -- Have you forgotten my name?
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DRESummary: "It's been six years since Chico rode with Chris Adams and his band of gunslingers. It was then that he married the beautiful Petra and promised to lay down his weapons forever. But when the cruel outlaw Lorca begins to terrorize his village, Chico, Chris and five brave new gunmen must ride again. Now, with the odds against them, the heroic seven emerge with guns blazing to face the shootout of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Return 2007Summary: Based on the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship - at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the 20th century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: Blu /DVD Family GreatestWald, Elijah.
Summary: How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll rejects the conventional pieties of mainstream jazz and rock history. Rather than concentrating on those traditionally favored styles, the book traces the evolution of popular music through developing tastes, trends and technologies--including the role of records, radio, jukeboxes and television--to give a fuller, more balanced account of the broad...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 WALSummary: In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Summary: A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers' son in volatile South Baltimore shaped his life in activism, explaining how government oversight can become a positive part of a just American collective.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CUMMINGS, ELIJAH CUMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B CUMMINGS CUMDinner.
Contents: Going out -- Skid Row -- 3rd presence -- the dawn is here -- Overtake -- This girl -- Girl -- Ok, alright (Late Night vocal version -- You are like LA -- Say what you want (Love is death) (soft version) -- Stone Town (Berlin mix).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Captured Tracks 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DINSummary: Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JDelilah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fireside 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 248.4 DELDelilah
Summary: The most listened-to woman on U.S. radio, who has distinguished herself as the "Queen of Sappy Love Songs" and America's ultimate romance guru, discusses her off-air life--one full of trials, forgiveness and faith.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: RosettaBooks 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DELILAH DELDresner, Amy
Summary: A former stand-up comic and prolific online writer chronicles her twenty-year battle with sex, drug, and alcohol addiction, and what happened when she finally emerged on the other side.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2017
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Contents: Zodiac Rabbit (5:30 min) -- Wheel (3:10 min) -- Arc (4:09 min) -- Spring (5:23 min) -- Interlude (2:27 min) -- Viroqua (2:30 min) -- Effigy (4:21 min) -- Blind Valley (3:36 min) -- Confluence (4:47 min)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tompkins Square 2023
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL FOLK MCLWald, Elijah.
Summary: Robert Johnson's story presents a fascinating paradox: Why did this genius of the Delta blues excite so little interest when his records were first released in the 1930s? And how did this brilliant but obscure musician come to be hailed long after his death as the most important artist in early blues and a founding father of rock 'n' roll? Elijah Wald provides the first thorough examination of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, ROBERT WALWood, Elijah
Summary: Huckleberry Finn and his friend, an escaped slave named Jim, face adventure as they travel down the Mississippi River; when Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, they try to decide whether to keep the truth a secret or reveal the identity of the killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Summary: In honor of her grandmother, who passed away, Annie does her first dance at potlatch in her Yupik Eskimo village. Based on a Yupik Eskimo tradition.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alaska Northwest Books 1995
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 REN(MYERS, ELIJAH E., ED.)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 1986
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.427 MICBrennert, Alan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREKreiner, Megan
Summary: Each of these small, portable projects can be created in no more than a few hours. Crochet one or two for quick handmade ornaments, or create themed ornament sets such as The North Pole, Christmas Goodies, Fun in the Snow, Baby's First Christmas, Woodland Friends or even a full Nativity Series.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Spring House Press 2016
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1 available in Holiday Non-fiction, Call number: 746.434 KREPaul Dresser
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Paull-Pioneer 1905