Summary: Recounts the triumph and travails of the eighteen African American athletes representing the United States in the 1936 Olympics, who endured racism in Hitler's Berlin as well as back home in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OLYContents: Gorilla Hunt (The Altecs) -- I'll Blow My Mind (Spencer's Van Dykes, vocal by Eddie Zarate) -- The Mad Scientist (The Zanies) -- Satisfaction (Los Corvets) -- Meet The Bongo Man (Johnny O) -- Everybody's Movin' (The Debonairs) -- The Day Is Hard (The Wrench) -- Grandchus (Bobby Fry) -- TNT In A T-Shirt (The Rebels) -- Camel Walk (Davie Allan & Arrows (issued as by The Zanies)) -- Midnight Star...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MAKContents: Disc 1. Side A. Her alibi (90 min.) -- Side B. Forget Paris (87 min.) -- Disc 2. Side A. Goodbye girl (103 min.) -- Best friends (109 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 4Summary: Social climber Alice tries to push her clodhopper family to the background and assumes airs to win the love of an amiable, wealthy young man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ALIVarious artists
Contents: S.O.S. (Rihanna) -- Temperature (Sean Paul) -- Ridin' (Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone) -- Check on it Yo (excuse me miss) (Chris Brown) -- Ms. New Booty (Bubba Sparxxx) -- I'm N luv (T-Pain) -- Poppin' my collar (Three 6 Mafia) -- When you're mad (Ne-Yo) -- What's left of me (Nick Lachey) -- Bad day (Daniel Powter) -- Over my head (Cable car) (The Fray) -- For you I will (Confidence)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony BMG Music Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NOWSummary: Goodbye, Tree Hill High. Graduation nears and with its approach comes the realization that, for students and parents alike, life is changing forever. There are new loves to nurture, old scores still to settle. The longtime triangle of Lucas, Peyton and Brooke finally comes down to two. The memory of Keith--or is it his spirit?--inspires Lucas and Nathan and haunts Dan. Peyton is terrorized by a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ONEBiddle, Daniel R.
Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CATTO, OCTAVIUS BIDSummary: Profiles Paul Taylor, pioneer of 20th century modern dance. Features interviews with Taylor and company members. Includes excerpts from: Espanade; Company B; Polaris; 3 epitaphs; Events II, Epic, and Duet from 7 new dances; Scudorama; Aureole; Airs; Cloven kingdom; Last look; Musical offering; Offenbach overtures; Eventide; Piazzola caldera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DANSummary: A sublime work of personal vision, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic documentary immersion in the world of Ethiopia's Oromo and Harari communities, places where one commodity khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once prized for its supposedly mystical properties holds sway over the rituals and rhythms of everyday life. As if under the influence of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC FAYNeruda, Pablo
Summary: This superb bilingual anthology highlights the posthumous legacy of Pablo Neruda, the great Chilean poet and Nobel laureate, who left a vast body of unpublished work when he died in 1973. Ben Belitt, a distinguished poet in his own right, is widely regarded as the leading translator of Neruda into English. Here he has given us a Neruda as fecund and engaged as ever, ceaselessly spinning the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 NERSummary: Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder. Sentenced to life in prison, Carter's published memoir, The Sixteenth Round, inspires a teenager from Brooklyn and three Canadian activists who believe in the truth, to join forces with Carter to prove his innocence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HURHandel, George Frideric
Contents: Scoglio d'immota fronte (5:00)/ Scipione (1726) -- Verdi piante, erbette liete (6:20) / Orlando (1733) -- Se pieta (8:50)/ Giulio Cesare in Egitto (1724) -- L'amor ed il destin (3:00)/ Partenope (1730) -- Ah spietato (5:25)/ Amadigi (1715) -- Brilla nell'alma un non inteso ancor (5:20) / -- Alessandro (1726) Ombre piante, urne funeste (5:46) / Rodelinda (1725) -- Combattuta da due venti...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naive 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD O HANRobert, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
Summary: "Robert's Rules of Order is the recognized guide to smooth, orderly, and fairly conducted meetings. This 12th edition is the only current manual to have been maintained and updated since 1876 under the continuing program established by General Henry M. Robert himself. As indispensable now as the original edition was more than a century ago, Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised is the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 060.42 ROB1 available in Reference, Call number: R 060.42 ROB
Contents: With a song in my heart -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- The house I live in -- When Johnny comes marching home -- Climb ev'ry mountain -- Shenandoah -- You'll never walk alone -- Amazing grace -- Torna a Surriento -- O sole mio ; It's now or never -- Be my love -- Granada -- West side story (medley) -- America, the beautiful -- If I loved you -- Funiculi, funicula.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Odyssey 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL AMESummary: "A model-influencer couple get a ticket to the luxe life when they are invited aboard an all-expenses-paid cruise alongside a coterie of the rich and ghoulish, but an act of fate turns their Insta-perfect world upside down" --
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: Georgina is focused on trying to get away with murder as she gets to retain power within the Clios household and her position at the top of the elusive art world. The Clios family is still reeling from the devastation caused by Constantine's mysterious death, while Georgina continues her battle for dominance and control with Irina Clios and her children Christos and Adriana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RIVDurbin, William
Summary: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURSummary: Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOMDurbin, William
Summary: Thirteen-year-old C.J. records in a journal the conditions of the Dust Bowl that cause the Jackson family to leave their farm in Oklahoma and make the difficult journey to California, where they find a harsh life as migrant workers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC DURSummary: When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MEECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 2005Durbin, Kate
Summary: "A book of prose poems by Kate Durbin"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wave Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 DURDurbin, William
Summary: In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DURDurbin, William
Summary: In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 1999