Summary: 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
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Leonardo
Summary: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) possessed arguably the greatest mind the world has ever known. Artist, draftsman, inventor, and philosopher, his contributions to modern society are profound and wide-reaching. Throughout his life, Leonardo kept dozens of notebooks, elegant studies on topics ranging from architecture to botany to philosophy--indeed nearly anything of which the human imagination...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Black Dog & Leventhal 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEOLeonardo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEOLeonardo
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Reynal 0000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 759.5 LEOCrow Dog, Leonard
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1996
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 929.2 CROW DOG CROSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN RANLeonardo, Cory
Summary: Alastair the African grey parrot is adopted by elderly dance-enthusiast and pie-baker Albertina Plopky and his sister, Aggie, by twelve-year-old Fritz, spoiling his plans to fly away with Aggie. Told in Alastair, Albertina, and Fritz's voices.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Canongate 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FUESummary: Explores the making and meaning of Film, a 1965 short film starring Buster Keaton, that was written by Samuel Beckett, directed by Alan Schneider, and produced by Barney Rosset. Topics covered include the circumstances leading to the film's production, the production process itself, and the film's critical reception. Includes outtakes, never-before-heard audio recordings of production meetings,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOTPadura, Leonardo.
Summary: "A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PADCurti, Leonardo.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gibbs Smith 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5945 CURDiCaprio, Leonardo
Summary: In the 1990s a wealthy stockbroker becomes involved in a securities scam that leads him to a life of crime and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2016
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WolfCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WoSummary: Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUTLeonardo, Cory
Summary: With the help from friends, Marcel the hedgehog tries to find his way back to The Emerald City Theater, the place he has called home since getting separated from his beloved owner, Dorothy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEOLeonardi, Marco
Summary: In turn of the century Mexico, a young woman loves a boy whom her mother forces to marry her sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Like 2011Carranza, Leonarda
Summary: "In this poignant, empowering picture book debut, a girl and her beloved abuelita lean on each other as they contend with racism while running errands in the city. Spending time at home with Abuelita means pancakes, puddle-jumping, and nail-painting. But venturing out into the city is not always as fun. On the bus and at the grocery store, people are impatient and suspicious--sometimes they...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CARSummary: Explores the indelible footprint that humans have left on this planet, and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse, and calls for restorative action through a reshaping of human activity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ELEKing's Noyse (Musical group)
Contents: Galliard III based on La Mantoana / Giovanni Maria Trabaci (2:55) -- Galliard / Giovanni Leonardo dell'Arpa (2:41) -- Non ha'l ciel cotanti lumi = Heaven hath not so many stars / Claudio Monteverdi (3:01) -- Qual cadavero spirante = Like a dying corpse / Jacopo Peri (4:34) -- Pavane II / Carlo Farina (12:52) -- Se pur è ver = If it be true / Filippo Vitali (5:14) -- Dances from Il scolaro. Aria...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harmonia Mundi France 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL KINStew
Contents: Prologue (We might play all night) -- Baptist fashion show -- Church blues revelation/Freight train -- Arlington Hill -- Sole brother -- Must have been high -- Mom song -- Merci beaucoup, M. Godard -- Amsterdam -- Keys (Marianna) -- Keys (It's alright) -- We just had sex -- Stoned -- Berlin : a black hole with taxis -- May Day (There's a riot goin' down) -- What's inside is just a lie/And now...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ghostlight 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC PASLeopardi, Giacomo
Summary: Giacomo Leopardi is Italy's greatest modern poet, the first European writer to portray and examine the self in a way that feels familiar to us today. A great classical scholar and patriot, he explored metaphysical loneliness in entirely original ways. ... Leopardi's poetry is notoriously difficult to translate, and he has been less well known to English-language readers than his central...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 458.4 LEOSummary: The documentary examines the groundbreaking life and career of Lina Wertmüller, the first woman ever nominated for the Academy Award for best director, covering not only her work in cinema, but her work in drama, television, and music, featuring previously unreleased videos, images, and songs written by Lina Wertmüller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEHPhew
Contents: Snow and pollen -- Days nights -- Into the stream -- Feedback tuning -- Flashforward -- Doing nothing.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK PHEFernández, Bernardo
Summary: ¿Y si los dragones fueran reales? ¿Y si todos esos avistamientos en lagos africanos y en los océanos de Indonesia fueran ciertos? ¿Y si los hemos confundido con dinosaurios? ¿Y si fueran capaces de volar, de respirar bajo el agua, de reproducirse...? En la que considera la más querida de sus novelas, Bef nos cuenta que la respuesta a todas esas preguntas pudo haberse hallado en el barrio chino...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gran Travesía 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FERMoore, Brew.
Contents: Them there eyes / Maceo Pinkard, William Tracey, Doris Tauber (4:55) -- Them old blues / John Marabuto (4:05) -- Tea for two / Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar (5:00) -- Rose / John Marabuto (4:40) -- I can't believe that you're in love with me / Jimmy McHugh, Clarence Gaskill (4:19) -- Fools rush in (where angels fear to tread) / Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom (4:22) -- Rotation / Dickie Mills (4:23)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantasy 1998